Forum Post: #Occupy the Elections

There is a way to protest the lack of valid choices offered the people by the Democrats and Republicans.

The elections are the one time that WE the PEOPLE get to express our political opinions in a forum that is actually counted by the government. So instead of passively flipping switches as the two dominance parties tell us to do I use the WRITE-IN option to express myself.

I Write-In candidates who reflect and respect my values. In the 2012 elections I will Write-in Elizabeth Warren for President in the Democratic primary. Wall Street hates her.

I vote strategically. That is, in the primary, I change my voter registration to whichever party has a candidate that best reflects my values. Including Independent. Don't lock yourself into the phony two party paradigm.

If the #Occupy movement were to mount a massive national voter registration movement for INDEPENDENT voters it would send a massive and powerful message to both the Democrats and Republicans. It would scare the hell out of them. Neither party would any longer be able to expect these votes to go their way.

I have been mainly registered as an Independent voter since 1996. Prior to that, as a Democrat, no one cared what I thought because I was expected to vote the party ticket. Once I registered Independent the pollsters started calling me during elections asking for my opinion. Politicians call me incessantly at election time because they DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM THINKING.

My opinion counts as an Independent.