Sometimes the pundits are right, well partly right. Occupy Wall Street Protesters, it's time to plan an end-game. Here's a suggestion. Organize meetings among all the movement sites to adopt a platform, not a list of demands. Yep, I''m talking about getting into politics in a real way. The reality is we can never change the government from the outside. The main reason is they got bigger guns and the jails. And if you don't believe they will use them you haven't read our history from the fifties and the sixties. It can always happen again, especially with this group of politicians. We have to become the system.
Now for a platform. It doesn't have to be complex. After all, some of you are Democrats some Republicans, and some just want a fair shake. We can argue over the little things later. The big deals require common sense and willingness to negotiate. As a member of the 99% myself, what I want from government is both fiscal responsibility and social responsibility. And yes, we can have both, and afford them. Both require a fair and responsible tax system. One more thing. Money is not the only form of speech. We don't need to spend billions of dollars to gain real representation. What good is social media if we do not use it to our advantage? Once we have a platform one of three things will happen: legislators will support us, legislators will oppose us and attempt to discredit us, or legislators will sit on the fence. The obvious fight is the opposition. Those on the fence are waiting to be bought. That's not how we roll. So we know who we have to run against. We need to find champions to run against them and prove we are the majority, not them. Remember, this platform is not about party, it's about priorities. Elections should always address priorities, and priorities change. When the legislature does not change as quickly as the public's predicament it's time to vote out the old and vote in the new. That's why Representatives are only elected for two-year terms, and a third of the Senate faces the will of the people at the same time. Of course the principals of our platform have to be applied at local levels as well. Another thing we must do is re-certify as many voters as possible according to the laws of the 38 states that have de-certified their voting status. We must help to compile all the documentation those individual states require. With the number of disenfranchised estimated at around 5 million, we will need an army to do this. Such is the nature of voter registration today. Then we can change the rules back and protect against them ever being enacted again.
Remember Obama's campaign slogan? What I figured out two years ago, is change is happening, it just may not be what was expected by Obama or the Tea Party. So all you Democrats, Republicans and Independents out there on the front lines, get involved in your primaries, find candidates with the intelligence and practicality to work for real answers, make sure the voting public can vote, and above all, first order of business along with jobs, jobs, jobs, close all those loopholes so Wall Street can never do to us again what they do to us now. And if Corporate America wants move off shore and give our jobs to other countries, we can pass laws to make it easier to start our own businesses and make them pay a premium to use our natural resources and sell their wares here. After all, not only are we 99% of this country we are 40% of the world's economy.
