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Why Truthers Need to Vote for Obama
By Todd Putnam (about the author) Page 6 of 6 page(s)
It just may be true when Obama says that "We are the change we've been waiting for." Because without us, the people, with us just sitting on the sidelines, he can accomplish no change of any real significance. If he really is the 'change' candidate, it is going to be up to us to make him truly effective. And the more popular and powerful we make him through our support, the more the PTB will seek to undermine his popularity.
So we have to be ready; we have to be organized and know what we want and what we are doing.
It was only when the people took to the streets of Seattle to say "no" to the World Trade Organization that Mr. Free Trade President Bill Clinton acknowledged that trade laws need to address legitimate human rights, labor, and environmental concerns.
Ultimately, what is needed, as with the WTO, is a broad-based, unified movement with anti-globalization at its core. Every concern has its globalization aspects. But, unlike the WTO protest, once this grand coalition is built, we don't all simply retreat into our own small corners and continue only working upon our own agendas. A movement has the potential to be tremendously larger than the sum of its parts, but only if the parts build something together. After the WTO protest, nothing more was built, and a great coalition was lost.
There are a lot of creative and talented people in the truth movement, and we should not waste our time building bomb shelters after the election, but rather pulling together with others who may want change but who see things differently, and figure out ways to work together toward a common purpose.
So it is not enough to just elect Obama; we need to contact our local Obama headquarters, attend their victory celebration, and kick all this talk of change into high gear. We all know what happens when parties end, people go home and get on with their lives. If Obama is elected, although there will be a level of euphoria, for many the hard work will have been completed: objective accomplished. What this means is that there will be a lot of organizing to be done afterwards trying to keep people involved. And by involving ourselves, we can spread our knowledge and actually begin building the bridges and the movement we know is essential to ultimate success.
Although we may want to see Obama, Kucinich, and Ron Paul make a joint announcement on live TV outlawing the NWO, I'm afraid that an Obama presidency is the best we can realistically hope for. How things go from there will depend as much on us as on him.
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