Voting is not enough

[GoldenThunder]

Anyone who believes that the electoral process is the sole path to freedom and democracy will inevitably lose both freedom and democracy. If you truly love America, folks, voting is not enough.
It's time to start a grassroots VINE movement in America (Voting Is Not Enough). We must get the rest of our citizens to understand that ownership of democracy involves a lot more than filling out a ballot every once in a while. It will always be easy to rig the game so long as most people believe that its a game. Our freedom is not a game.

Please help me with this movement any way you can.

[xxqqqzme]

1. Howard Dean said voting gets you a 'D' in

government. It is the least thing you can do as a participant. You get an 'A' if you run for office.

[Bryn]

2. Welcome to DU

You're 100% correct. Voting is not enough.

[GoldenThunder]

5. Thanx for the welcome

I know I don't use this medium nearly as much as I should. But any weapon in a fight is welcome. I'm not much for blogging and I don't follow facebook or tweets. But this is mighty damn important. I must get this message out. Voting, quite simply, is not enough! Democracy demands far more of us than that. Far more from ALL of us.

[tavalon]

3. Thank you for posting this

And yes, as a citizen, voting is the very least one can do. And in these gilded times, it is too little. We need to be figuring out what else needs to be done and then we need to roll up our sleeves and do it.

There is so much to choose from - Citizen's United to media conglomeration to the co-opting of our party by the "Third Way" DLC moles to ......... The list is long and the time is short.

[Modern_Matthew]

4. This system will evolve on its own, but it needs people like us to steer the process... nt

[JDPriestly]

6. Welcome to DU, Golden Thunder

Great post.

[liberalla]

7. kick

:kick:

[demwing]

8. I'm willing

please see my thread "The Firewall Falls"