Forum Post: Our Demands Part 3
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 4, 2011, 1:21 a.m. EST by Octangle
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7) We demand, and pledge to create, a new political party that will stand strong for all of these, and all other policies that will be needed to create the strong, free, peaceful nation that we seek to create. We call on all liberal Democrats already elected who find themselves in a position to win their next elections (or currently have no election to win) regardless of political party: Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich, John Conyers, Howard Dean, and so many more to band together and form such a party immediately. The Democratic Party has abandoned you, it is time for you to abandon it. We can not accomplish our goals through a party formed by a single person, such as Ross Perot, nor can we achieve them through the Democratic Party, which has long been co-opted by the corporate powers that be. Come together and form a new party that will give hope to the youth and the elders, and the poor, and the middle class of America! Together we can do this!
8) We demand, and will work tirelessly for, the repeal of the electoral college so that our newly founded Social Democratic Party will have a fair field on which to fight for the hopes and dreams of the American People.
There's a beginning, as I see it, brothers and sisters. The media says we have no focus, no one demand, no real message. I say let's give them a Social Democratic Manifesto. Let's show them the scope and size of our dream. Let's make this thing as big and beautiful and hopeful as it needs to be!
Peace, Paul Chhabra
You're really desperate for Occupy Wall Street to become meaningless, aren't you? Way to go expanding demands from financial sector corruption and its adverse impacts to everything you can think of save perhaps the kitchen sink.
I believe that I've written a concise vision of the way America should be.
This must include economic, democratic, and international ideals of how our country should behave, and structural changes that could make this vision possible. 1 & 2 are the basis of decency. 3, 4 & 5 are the way such things might become affordable. 6 is about international relations and morality. 7 & 8 are the political changes necessary to make it happen.
If all or none of that is possible, well, then what is the point? We are trying to change the world.