Corporations have taken over all three branches of government. WE THE PEOPLE must unite, fight strategically, and get our country back. It won't be quick, but here's a skeleton roadmap.
First watch my video here: http://www.youtube.com/...
LITTLE PAY OFF FOR BLOOD, SWEAT, TEARS
We are being utterly crushed by a small, uber powerful faction. Think back to school, remember that in a political economy such as ours, there are only two types of people: Capitalists (Top 2%) and Labor (Other 98%). Labor is hurting really, really bad.
Labor hasn't been sitting on our collective keesters. We have been and continue to raise hell as best we know how -- put the word "protest" into Google images and you will get a slew of photos from the last ten years. But no matter what your cause -- Climate change, DREAMAct, Gay Marriage, Universal Healthcare, Foreclosure Relief, Jobs, Ending the War-- we've seen little pay off for our blood, sweat, and tears. Even though a majority (I've heard 67%) want the wars over and troops withdrawn, we can't even get that done. We're still in Iraq, with 100,000 troops. Despite the overwhelming support for our cause. Why? Simple. We are being IGNORED in Washington. Our democracy has been stolen right out from underneath us.
CORPORATE POWER GODS
We've been fighting for the last 10 years. But the problem is our tactics come from a perspective of the power structure from the 1940s-1970s. The Left needs to collectively come to an icy cold realization -- we are no longer fighting one factory closure in Long Beach or Oakland, or one politician who has betrayed us and supported the Capitalist owner of said factory. We are now fighting a highly sophisticated enemy which has infiltrated and contaminated ALL THREE branches of our government. The checks and balances are mere husks of their former selves. Our enemy has been hunting us since we put the picket signs down in the 1970s, and has had 4 decades of unfettered feasting on the flock. Remember when Cheney lead them into the White House for closed door sessions on "energy policy" -- giving the ok to frack up our Clean Water? That's what we are facing now -- a collusion between corporations and government of unprecedented proportions.
In the simplest terms, we are now fighting CORPORATIONS as a category. Every battle we have on our hands, regardless if its tar sands, tuition increases, or paying our United Nations dues, goes back to Wall Street -- follow the money trail on war, natural gas, banking, anything. Wall Street is making money from the status quo, and the changes the Left wants threatens comfortable billionaire lifestyles.
So in response, they go shopping. Corporations have taken over all three branches of government. They bought Obama, they bought Scalia and friends, and they have a fleet of new borgs, Republican freshmen, in the House (to compliment the Blue Dog sellouts they own in the Senate). They OWN the media; they are the Media. (Ask Cenk Uyger.) AND they pay no taxes -- all the more monopoly money to spread around to get their way. THEY WORK TOGETHER AS ONE GIANT MONOLITH. In EVERY area of government, they get to play God -- they slash the regulations, cherry pick the agency heads to "enforce" them (lobbyists), they are forgiven of every crime against citizens. They pay NO taxes, are subsidized, and life is great for them. This is not PhilipMorris get special treatment in the South, and Coal gets away with murder in Appalachia. THIS IS ALL CORPORATIONS ARE GODS EVERYWHERE THEY GO. Everyone turns a blind eye; everyone gets subsidies; everyone gets bailouts; citizens pay all externalities, brunt all the risk, get no funding for social programs, and now we die without getting to retirement. This is dire.
UNITE, FIGHT, and WIN
So don't think of your fight for the environment or education is a local battle. Don't even think of it as a regional, even a or state battle. You are fighting FEDERAL POWERS, MULTINATIONAL POWERS, WALL STREET every single time! They threaten to take jobs to China, India, if your politician doesn't roll over and slash environmental protections, BUT DON'T BACK DOWN! REMEMBER, WE HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE. We are now back in the 1920s and we have to fight until we get back all the protections we've lost. IT CAN BE DONE!! They have slashed the social programs which usually are Lefty jobs, which typically regulate or "interfere" with business, as well as diversify the middle class; they don't want educated regulators, they want victims. Its painful. So let it be clear -- we are ALL fighting corporations -- we must adjust tactics accordingly. FIRST, MOVING TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION (Corporations are not people; Money is not free speech) MUST BE ON EVERY SINGLE LIBERAL PERSON'S AGENDA in the U.S. Gay, straight, Latino, teachers, scientists, etc.. doesn't matter. THIS IS EVERYONE's BATTLE!!
FIVE STEPS TO RESTORING REASON
I propose the following steps as a roadmap. My brand new "Unite and Fight" video shows these steps in overview. (http://www.youtube.com/...).
1) Educate and Activate -- starve them of money with universal boycotts, viral videos that shame them. 2) Progressive Caucus -- WE HAVE LEVERAGE because some representatives in DC are thankfully not robots. They hear our shouts, and these folks give us leverage! We must rally behind them to keep them in D.C., reward them when they vote correctly, as well as HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE when they cave. 3) Move to Amend -- end corporate personhood. But we must not stop there, there are a slew of reforms that NEED to happen to campaign finance, rules on agency appointments, a series of impeachment trials overdue, we need to establish penalties CORRUPTION of colluding with industry, and plenty of TRUST BUSTING. 4) We must knock out the corporate agenda--by DEFEATING politicians who work for corporations, not their own constituents! Track your local guys and ROAST them! Finally, we can 5) Restore reason -- when we GET to the finish line, we can user our money for our needs! Money for jobs in education, infrastructure, public institutions, and the environment, end the Wars, end the Patriot Act, and FAIR SHARE taxes : no more tax loopholes for billionaires and corporations.
***SPECIAL OUTREACH TO THE KOSSACKS*****
You Kossacks are a freakishly smart bunch, so I need you, and every pro bono lawyer and policy person I can get to determine: #1: WHAT ARE THE EXISTING LEVERS OF POWERS THE PEOPLE HAVE TODAY?? #2: WHAT SHOULD BE ON OUR EXTENSIVE LIST OF REFORMS NEEDED TO DRASTICALLY SHRINK CORPORATE POWER IN GOVERNMENT??
PLEASE SEND ME A PRIVATE MESSAGE -- keep it on the downlow. Football teams don't share their plays with the other side the night before the game, and neither should we! (That's thinking like a Rightwing well-heeled strategist.)
Lastly, PLEASE spread the video to wake up the Left : http://www.youtube.com/...
THANK YOU AND KEEP FIGHTING
Imzaa