Zorra
Zorra's JournalI sincerely, and reluctantly, offered my service in the Oval Office in 2011, on DU. See below.
Unfortunately, for the people of the world, I was not nominated. It's too late now, it was a one time offer; best to make hay while the sun shines. You snooze, you lose. Things are now way too far gone for me to be able to fix now, the Third Way has totally destroyed the Democatic Party in service of the 1%, and now only non-violent revolution can bring about the changes necessary to create genuine democracy in the US.
Could I have done better than Obama? Well, let's just say, I would definitely have at least made a serious effort to do so.
It's not so much what Obama didn't accomplish, it's mostly that he didn't even make an effort to accomplish the critical things that needed to be done, and made no explanation to us as to why he did not even try to accomplish these very necessary things.
Anyway, here's my offer, the underlined paragraph below is a current edit.
Original message
I guess I'm gonna run for President.
Edited on Tue Mar-29-11 02:44 PM by Zorra
I don't really want or need much, so if y'all just pay me $10 an hour (just for 40 hrs a week, no OT) so I can pay for my food, and some reasonably affordable medical bennies, I'll work for you. I'll live in an RV powered by solar on the WH grounds so I don't have to cost y'all much to support me. I'll use my own car and bicycle, and take public transpo when flying somewhere necessary. I can make my own lunches, too.
I promise never to lie to you. You can put everything I do as President on live video, (except for some hours when I sleep, or shit like critical national security issues that can't be in the open cuz it would counterproductive, but you can televise all the entrances to my place 24/7 and monitor communications if you want) kind of like a reality show, only real reality. I don't really want anything, except for everyone to be as happy as posiible and have enough to eat and stuff like that. So I have nothing to gain except to serve my people and create a better world for everyone. I don't particularly want to do this cuz it will be a real hassle, but I think I would do a really good job at it, so I'd do it for awhile, I don't have much of anything better to do but contemplate existence and that gets old after awhile. And hey, if someone wants to shoot me, no BFD. I'm gonna die someday anyway. Can't scare me.
I will lean on Congress so hard that they will either do what is right for the American people or I will clearly expose their corrupt ulterior motivations (gaining wealth and power through service to wealthy private interests) individually and collectively for everyone to see.
The first thing I will do after my inauguration is issue an Executive Order ending all lobbying of public officials by anyone or anything (corporations are NOT people) and making it a major felony to offer public officials money (other than their salary/bennies of course). In the same EO, I will make it a major felony for a public official to accept money. Punishable by life in prison. I'll shoot it out with SCOTUS later.
The second EO will declare that the recent SCOTUS bench legislation allowing unlimited funding of political campaigns is an imminent threat and clear and present danger to our country, and that the SCOTUS bench legislation is moot. I'll shoot it out with SCOTUS later.
The third EO will outlaw electronic voting and establish a transparent voting system that will be as incorruptible and foolproof as is humanly possible, probably based on the Canadian model.
I'm real good at managing money. If Congress cooperates, I will balance the budget by ending wars, cutting defense spending, and taxing corporations and the wealthy at the same rate that was in effect during the Eisenhower administration. Balancing the budget really shouldn't be too hard if given an honest try. I will assemble a team of talented, dedicated, honest people with no ulterior motives (corporate interests) eliminating unnecessary spending that is not fully geared to the benefit of human beings. Banks and corporations will be regulated beyond their ability to cause deliberate economic harm or any significant economic harm caused by incompetence or unabashed greed. Fines for violating these regulations will be massive enough to be a very strong deterrent to corruption. Severe ciminal penalties will be in place where applicable. No company will want to risk it.
Then, New Deal II begins ASAP, with the cooperation of Congress, of course. Anyone that wants to, and is willing and able to work, will be able to get a job. Might be minimum wage, but that can't be helped. Rebuilding infrastructure and implementing alternative energy systems en masse will be main projects of New Deal II. A major investment in education will be at the top of the agenda.
Universal single payer healthcare will be established during my administration.
The primary key to the success of my administration will be absolute honesty, integrity, incorruptibility (is that a word? you know what I mean if it ain't) and all around ability . It will be all out in the open, no secrecy, no bullshit. Any pol tries to pull dishonest bullshit I'll personally call them out and shame them in public. You'll see exactly where your money is going, and what your government is doing.
I will do everything in my power to protect you from economic, social, political, and physical harm caused by wealthy private interests and any governments or terrorist agents they may employ to attempt to overthrow our government again.
Guess you already figured we won't be wasting our money on unneccessary wars anymore, so we close up shop in whatever countries we're occupying at the time, and bring the troops home.
Anyway, that's a start. We'll have to work some of the bugs out of course. But here's the thing: We can do this. Again, simple honesty and transparency, common sense, reasonable intelligence, will, dedication, imagination, sincere motivation, character, and ability are all we need to retake our government, and create for ourselves a really awesome nation to live in and raise our children in.
If someone caps me, the ball will still be rolling. I guarantee my VP will be smarter, more capable, more dedicated, and better looking than me.
If you want real change, the rough blueprint is above. That's pretty much all I have to say. Oh, yeah, don't ever send me any money.
So, anyway, vote for me, my name is Zorra, and let's get this thing done so I can get back to hangin' at the beach ASAP.
Thanks. Have an awesome day.
Peace
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Yes, most likely. I wish it wasn't so, but the ability to democratically determine our national
destiny has been stolen from us by the 1%, and the only way to get it back from them is to take it through focused, extremely well planned, effective, and relentless non-violent democratic direct action, that has in place foolproof safeguards that will prevent conscienceless, greedy authoritarian egotists from ever assuming power before and/or after transition.
The next step is to insure that the people are well provided with the necessities of life during transition, and maintain the degree of freedom and safety to which they are accustomed until the new democracy is able to increase their freedom to the point where we can genuinely democratically choose our own national destiny as one united people, and effect our own means to increase our safety and happiness, free from interference from the self-interested greed and megalomania of those who would seek to control our government for their own pleasure. Which they are doing right now to the extreme detriment of all the other people in our country and our world.
Changing the power structure is always risky business; rulers from the economically privileged and morally/ethically bankrupt class never give up their place, and their power willingly, and will commit all manner of crimes against humanity in order to maintain and increase their wealth, power, control, and authority.
Jefferson thought it out very well while he was writing the Declaration of Independence, but he and the other revolutionaries of his day were unable to install the safeguards necessary to prevent wealthy sociopaths from taking over the government because of the necessity of compromising with those who were already asserting that the rights of commercial interests needed to be recognized as sometimes necessarily taking precedence over the will and rights of the people. The 1% sabotaged democracy in the US pretty much before day one, and the conundrum we face today regarding our national situation is the direct result of the founders not implementing safeguards to prevent wealthy sociopaths from usurping the government of the United States.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...."
It takes a village to raze a government.
It's DLC/Third Way sabotage. Govern from the right,
lose the Democratic base, and destroy the Democratic party forever.
This way the 1% takes complete control of the population and any and all hope of electoral democracy is gone forever.
If Obama and the large Democratic majorities elected in 2008 had done what the left elected them to do and expected them to do, republicans would not have slaughtered us in 2010. By following a pro-democratic agenda, Democrats would have become more popular and increased majorities with each election.
We could have had it all; we could have begun progressing and evolving rapidly, in a safe, sane, clean way. But progressing and evolving is bad for business, and the business of America is Corporations Uber Alles.
Instead, here we are once again, dropping bombs on Hanoi Baghdad Syria, protecting the interests of multinational imperialists in an eternal war they deliberately created.
Because this has been the plan all along.
Doesn't matter though, does it? There is nothing we can do about it. Because republicans are far worse, and no genuine pro-democracy party can arise because the media has turned 75% of the American populace into vapid, sheep like morons, addicted to spending the majority of their free waking time watching idiots say and do idiotic things on television, and then living their lives being who they were taught to be.
The same idiots they watch on television.
A Video Lobotomy.
Understanding Occupy takes conceptual thinking ~ the ability to use the cognitive processes of
abstraction and conceptualization.
The majority of DUers get Occupy instantly, it is natural for them.
Others...not so much.
Those that get Occupy intrinsically understand that you can't kill an idea. (No matter how hard you try!)
Try this: Think of Occupy as a seed of a tree that cannot be killed. The seed has sprouted, and the tree is now growing, spreading roots and branches. Recent events in Scotland are a small branch of the young, healthy Occupy tree. Someday the roots of the Occupy seed will take all the nutrients from the noxious weeds among which it has sprouted, and the bad weeds will die. The shade of the mature Occupy tree will prevent the seeds of the noxious weeds from ever growing again.
Remain optimistic.
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