And if the media won't cover it, we've still got the streets, the internet, and word-of-mouth.
We Facebook it. We Twitter it. We Tumbler it.
We call it into radio talk shows. We get ourselves on TV.
We carry signs at rallies, in mall parking lots, on busy street corners . . .
Millionaire Senator [name] won't sign pledge for fair taxes on the rich!
Congressman [name] won't pledge support for affordable health care!
And though I shouldn't have to say it, let me make this very clear. I know this is tough talk. But this is not about causing random mayhem or inciting a campaign of character assassination or vindictiveness. It's about taking our country back and having "representative government" represent us -- something it hasn't done for quite some time.
I have also thought a lot about the timing and have come to the conclusion that the pledge should be presented in the first week of October -- our little October Surprise! This is a full month before the election but it doesn't give the candidate much time to think about it, analyze the stats, come up with a counter-offensive. Let him or her sweat. Let them worry that if they don't sign, they are going to blow the election.
Let me add this: This tactic doesn't have to and shouldn't wherever possible revolve around a single issue. Each voting district has its hotbuttons. It has some set of issues which are threshold issues, matters of public policy which a majority of voters have strong feelings about. Each of those hotbutton issues equates to a pledge. Refusal to sign any or all of the pledges results in the campaign I am proposing, a campaign to educate the public. To force the candidate to comply.
It's their choice. Either they sign the pledges and start working for us or they go bye-bye.
This has Become a Necessary Approach
It's unfortunate it has come to this. Politics have always been a rough-and-tumble game. But the game is now so rigged, we have no choice.
The important thing is to show these sell-outs that we are fed up with the way our voice has been silenced by big money corporate donors, by the military-industrial complex, by the banks, by the thieves that have looted the U.S. Treasury and now are coming for our money.
This offensive if properly orchestrated, even only concentrating on a few dozen of these turncoat legislators, is going to be big news. It's going to put on notice the politicians who have been for too long sliding by on empty promises.
I believe that if the above-outlined strategy of petitions and pledges is brutally applied across the country on the incumbent puppets posing as the people's representatives, it will change the way business is done in our corrupted legislature. Unlikely as it may be, if ultimately both major party candidates for each legislative seat sign our pledge demands, even under our flawed two-party system, mission accomplished! Legislative action by public fiat. The majority will have spoken. We'll be heard. We'll get what we want. What a concept! It kind of sounds like democracy.
It's time to take back our country. Immediately!
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