Where to begin A friend of mine posted my idea about registering everyone to vote and people complained that we have only a few choices but they miss the point. Write in party occupy where asked then vote but don't vote for the big names cast for Jimmy Jeff of the clown party or one of the other wackjob parties, the point is that polititions watch the polls and the are vote hoes. Next we are not a party we are the pissed off, we shouldn't endorse anyone. While in the booth take your time slow down the polls, it will be noticed and it is legal
If only the Yippies could have been out in full force at all the Republican conventions. If only Jerry Rubin were alive...
you know what Jerry would say? "Be your own fuckin' Jerry Rubin!" point is, people have to stop looking into the past so much and look at the future. We need to take back our political system and we have the power to do so. I'm thinking of going with a write in. The whole thing is rigged anyway, the outcome is rather predictable. GOP is going to put up Romney who will then pull a surprise VP from left field and it will be Romney V Obama. Obama will take it because he hasn't offended his voting base. Sure, he isn't as popular as when he started but given those two options, he seemingly has a strong lead. The people that want to get active in politics need to do so. Get educated, get involved and tear their fake ass "government" down and let the artists rebuild it and let the politicos sort that mess out. We need to make voting matter again.
Somehow over the last 40 years we have been brainwashed to the point that there is nobody that is really forward thinking/inspirational and these modern individuals just arent standing out. How do we undo the process and get people thinking and standing out again? Although the masters make the rules For the wise men and the fools Iv got nothing Ma, to live up to.
Everything has pretty much been done already, nothing else to think about when Facebook exists and all these other distractions. While moving forward is the way to go normal people don't listen to my factual rants about how corrupt the government is and how these terrorism laws are really just laws taking away our freedoms
I "write in" all the time. It's my right. It may not do anything other than make a point, but it's better than voting for a candidate simply because they appear to be the lesser of the evils...
In many ways, I think it is like we are revisiting the 1950's, and McCarthy is at the wheel. Only this time the nation has 4 scapegoats to create fear and division within the country: Socialism, illegal immigrants, Islam, and terrorists. We have a president who is continuing Bush's policy of slowly creating the powers of a Police State. We have the attack on the intelligencia (for example, Santorum's attacks on higher education). All we need now is for someone to burn down the Reichstag. It is a bit scary out there. In fact, I am urging my Filipina wife to get her US citizenship so that, if need be, we can leave the country and travel about more freely (A US passport opens far more border gates than a Philippine one). On the other hand, the State is no longer the same entity it was in the 20th Century. Part of the Social Contract has shifted from the State to the Multinational Corporation. And this process is still continuing. The problem is that the corporation has no true vested interest in the individual. In Washington, more than ever before, money talks, and these large corporations have the money to shape our legislature. Complicating this is the fact that many of these companies are too big and global to even worry about allegiance to any one sovereignty. Meanwhile, as NYdeadhead93 pointed out, you have Facebook and other distractions. I have found that FB is not neccessarily a distraction as a potential tool. I am on all sorts of groups on FB that are working to change the world. But Playstation, and all the other distractions of today are certainly a factor. There is also something deeper which I think is a kind of disinterested nihilism. It stems from a sense of 'What now?' and is a symptom of postmodernistic decline. As a culture, we are coming to terms with the fact that we dont have an answer anymore--we have tried it all when it comes to religion, political theory, economic theory, or anything else that would give us meaning. (Individually people may be finding their own answers, but I am not talking about individuals, I am talking about Western Culture as a whole). Our society it seems is doomed to become only more dysfunctional. In the political and economic arena, Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, and whatever other ~ism you can think of, is a product of the Age of Reason. They all had their heyday in the Age of Modernsim. Capitalism fared far better than the others (granted you could argue that a true Socialist State has never existed, but perhaps that is the folly of Socialism, that it is too easily maneuvered into a Police State). So it is not so much that we have been brainwashed, as it is that we are lost. (after all, every society has the malority, that is not much more than dumb sheep). As we move into an age that maybe marked by such things as quantum computing, we need to find a new philosophy, a new way of thinking. Something that has learned from the mistakes of the past---for example, the cold lifeless calculations of Marxist dialectic deadened the soul of the cultures it influenced, hence, you need a more humanistic philosophy that empowers the individual. I personally like to think that the clues of such a new philosophy, lies in the philosophy and cultural experiments of the hippies.
Not necessarily a rant, but more of a whole lot of the truth that is too much for a person to take in right away. So they shy away from it. Regardless I doubt anything will change, the powers that be wont allow it they have the military in their hands. We would all be labled as rebels and treasoners.
