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Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
The overall point is to reclaim government from the corporate interests that have captured it.
The integral motion is to disrupt the Dealer-Junkie relationship between finance, and the money-addicts in our government. There are two ways to accomplish this, I think.
1) Economic disruption. Strikes, boycotts, occupations, and literal disruptions ("party crashing") Hit the financial class in the wallets - they have more to lose than the rest of us, after all. Already banks are turning a part o their finances towards new ad campaigns to attempt to mollify us (Bank of America is sending out $5 gift cards... whooptie poop!) . In other words, the very tactic of sitting down where we're "not supposed to" (you know, in public spaces bought and maintained with money we pay in taxes?) and speaking out is making them start to fold. It's bringing awareness to the rest of the nation, how big a problem the wealth disparity and exploitation is in our nation. Seems even some of the political class is starting to notice. Also noticeable is that we don't roll it all up and go home at five.
2) Nonviolent resistance. A key point of the success of people and movements like the Labor movement,Gandhi and the American civil rights movement, was essentially getting your ass beat without fighting back. The people saw their fellows getting beaten, bloodied, and killed by their government, and demanded the government halt and listen to the charges of hte protestors. Question is, how much time, how much blood will it take? It took forty years for Universal Suffrage and Labor alike. it took twenty for India. It took ten for the civil rights movement. The progress of communication technology seems to have a meaningful impact.
either way, we have an opportunity to reclaim our government. Either by exploiting junkie logic, or by mass demand. When this opportunity is presented, it must be taken, and taken hard. In either case, the target is the money. Disrupt that connection, and you get your opportunity.
Once Americans are back in control of the American government, the next step is to address the big issue - poverty, massive inequalities in our society, and exploitation both domestic and abroad. There must be a return to the social contract between the government and the governed - that the government's role is not to attack its own people at the behest of corporate interests, but to defend its people from harm and seek their welfare and betterment; and if you don't think poverty is harmful, then you are a very fortunate person for having never been there yourself.
There are numerous methods that can be taken here - re-regulation, a return to meaningful, progressive taxation with loopholes closed throughout, amendments to forbid private funding of candidates, amendments to overturn the inane SC decision that made corporations persons, a "New new deal," all sorts of things could work to return the ownership of our government to "we the people."
One damn thing is certain - a company does not hire people who promise ot undermine that company. We cannot afford to vote for politicians who promise to destroy our government. We are living in the result of that idiocy.
Whatever the "and then" plan is - and so far, most are perfectly good ones - the crux is getting that moment where we can snatch our nation out of the hands of the nondemocratic, globally-financed interests now holding it hostage for ransom.
Originally posted by Evolutionsend
reply to post by iunlimited491
I want those that have more money than some small countries to be forced to redistribute that wealth to those that work 3 jobs and barely manage to eat.
Originally posted by MESSAGEFROMTHESTARS
That was a bunch of identifying problems, congrats...
Banks are bad, mmkay... wealth disparity, and..."Disrupt that connection, and you get your opportunity." what?
I'd like to know what that means lol, you want to make sure that none of these companies make any money, hope to bring down a few, and then what? ...so confusted.
I will agree that there is a problem with government and corporations, but I truly don't see that as being the base of the problem...
How can a country spend so much on foreign aid,
fund multiple wars all the dang time,
Have a military industrial complex, and keep hundreds of bases around the world open,
pay everyone for health and welfare.
compete with china and unfair labor practices in which steal jobs from the US, China also distorts the market,
the Federal Reserve doesn't allow for a bubble to pop, the housing market and banks was a sham, and still mostly is...
Here's some options that maybe should be tried on for size... recognizing that this is a much bigger issue than just the american government and corporations,
Federal Reserve,
and China
and Foreign Aid
And Ron Paul
Until those two problems are solved, you're truly not going to do anything important, so have fun revolutionizing your city people, unfortunately it's a little bit different than just a snatch and grab, for that entails a little more than just 'taking it over and back' type of thing.... It's going to take 12-16 years I'm sure, hope it can't last much longer
Originally posted by The Old American
So you support robbery, confiscation of personal property, and extortion all with the threat of bodily harm. Good to know there are humanitarians like you out there protecting our rights.