If you're going to assemble a mob, give them something to do.
Give them something which will make a substantial and decisive difference.
Camaraderie is a good thing. It's a social high. Feeling like you're part of something offers relief from a sense of isolation and helplessness.
But it's only a feeling. It's not politics. Politics is about power. Only power can confront power.
After the marches are done, after the protest signs are put away, when we're in our cars or on buses headed back home, we always need to ask ourselves: Do we now have power to implement the changes we want?
If the answer is 'no', then we didn't have an effective plan.
The best time for an effective plan is BEFORE we hit the streets, before we march and sing our songs, before we waste valuable time and energy in a frustrating and fruitless attempt to get those NOW IN POWER to do anything for us. Asking the the ruling elite and their lapdogs in our governing institutions to listen to our demands and serve our interests is like asking a carjacker to be sure and wash our automobile and return it in the morning with a full tank.
Here comes my plug: I have an end-to-end plan, a carefully-crafted strategy for engaging a broad base of U.S. citizens, uniting them into an overwhelming voting bloc, directed at replacing our corporate/ruling class-owned congressional representatives with candidates who will be required to answer to the voters who sent them to Washington DC on key issues which will shape the future direction of our country.Sound impossible? In poll after poll, while U.S. citizens are often loathe to consider themselves as socialists or liberals, the vast majority come down in favor of very progressive proposals. I just updated my data. Consider the following:
75% of Americans want a federal minimum wage of $12.50 per hour.
63% of Americans want a federal minimum wage of $15.00 per hour.
75% of voters want fair trade agreements protecting jobs, workers, the environment.
76% of voters want a cut back on military spending.
76% of voters want the U.S. completely out of Afghanistan.
79% of voters want no reductions in Social Security, 70% support expanding it.
79% of voters want no reductions in Medicare.
80% of voters oppose the "Citizens United" U.S. Supreme Court decision.
68% of voters think taxes on the wealthy should be increased.
71% of voters support massive infrastructure renewal.
65% of voters want laws to combat climate change.
62% of voters want tuition free public colleges and universities.
74% of American voters are for ending oil industry subsidies.
93% of voters want GMO labeling on their food.
So the numbers are there. None of the above is being considered by the current Congress, which is if anything sprinting in the opposite direction. So all we have to do is focus the public demand for what they want into an actionable electoral strategy and get to work.
Conveniently, I happen to have such a strategy. It will be introduced in the next article of this series. To give yourselves a leg-up, please click HERE and see the device which is central to this detailed plan of attack.
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