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I would rephrase the question a bit differently for starters: What will happen if a Republican or Democrat gets elected? Answer: More of the same, only on amphetamines. What will happen if we sit on our hands? We give the game away. What will happen if everybody does nothing? Earth continues its descent into the bowels of hell. What will happen if we don't speak out for our kids and their progeny? Civilization will continue to collapse, unless there is some miracle in the wings that the brightest amongst us fails to see.
In the same vein, the revolutions that have been occurring around the world have occurred because people saw what was coming down, decided life under such conditions was unacceptable, and used social media for change. Rocky is doing that, and he has also been on many TV and radio shows already, even making a monkey of Bill O'Riley; we are getting him on many more existing media shows (please do check Rocky's website and read his bio, as Christine noted above).
Margaret Mead said something to the effect that it is the 2% of the population who change the world, and that in fact, it has never been otherwise. RA has the brains, courage, speaking ability, connections, and charisma to be one of the greatest Presidents who ever lived. I have personally witnessed this while watching him for eight years as a mayor in this remarkably red state of Utah. I consider him to be Dennis Kucinich on steroids.
Taking the bully pulpit and using it regularly, loudly, and clearly seems to me critical. Dealing with past crimes will be "on the table." If you saw Rocky give his anti-Bush rally, the day before that clown came to town, you would know he can do this. His campaign converges completely with the OWS campaign, not that he wants to preempt it.
Again, check his Wiki reference to see the allies he has been steadily building over the decades, and the homework he has done. If ever the time was ripe for a third party, this is it, and Rocky is the man to do it (I regularly follow politics, and do not say this lightly).
People said I could never live off the grid, back in the eighties. I did it in southeast Idaho for 15 years (my "pre-Christine" days). People said I could never design a water toy or an airship, yet here they are: http://www.aquaglider.us; http://www.hyperblimp.com. People said slavery would never end, that women would never vote, that child labor would never end, that we'd never have social security, that heart transplants would never happen--I happen to have one of the latter and just got a six year excellent annual report.
So my executive summary is to look it at it this way: We can get off our couches and spread the word, or sit there in paralysis watching "reality shows," etc., or we can come up with our plan of how we are going to personally get the word out in our own little garden.
That upper 1% is most definitely scared, as bullies always are, when they see a change in the wind. They don't use pepper spray and lock up little old grannies because they think it is fun. We have the power, in fact we have just about as much as we assume, and it is high time we assume and use it. The time has come, at least for me, to pull out all stops, stop worrying about "splitting the vote" between little asses and bigger asses, and do the right thing. Your actions, multiplied by a million others, makes all the difference in the world.
I figure I'll be able to sleep with myself and at least make it ultimately to the grave knowing I did the right thing. I have a grandson who deserves it, and so does the rest of his generation. I can't make up anyone's mind but my own, but there you have it, about as succinctly as I can put it.
