(Principals that middleclass Americans can apply in running for Congress)

TAKEN FROM CHAPTER 10)          

            Robert replied, “Most people are working so hard to make ends meet, they don’t have the time needed to research what’s happening to their livelihoods. They also don’t have the energy to become politically involved and change it.  Your Redstart Warblers Club does a good job of protecting our local environment.  Why don’t you people find some middleclass candidates who wouldn’t mind being franchised?  Franchising would separate out the special interest money grubbing politicians from the American statesmen!"

Ryan questioned, "That's a great idea Robert, but how would that work?"

Robert answered, "Its simple Ryan. Say farmers were harmed by imports. The politician would receive a Writ for Discovery from an oversight committee. The Writ, would consider (a) motive, (b) opportunity and (c) deviation from American values by supporting special interests harming Americans. The committee would determine a Probability of Violation of Public Trust Factor. 

·         Motive would include issues typical to financial and/or political gain.  

·         Opportunity would include the politicians’ closeness to a specific industry and/or lobbyist.

·        Deviation would include the sense, or non-sense, in what a prudent person would consider justification for bettering special interests over American citizens. 

When franchised politicians acquired enough bad ratings to substantiate a high probability they were harming the American public, they would receive a warning. 

After they received three warnings, they would receive a no-confidence vote from the committee and would lose their franchise.  If they didn’t leave public office, their actions would become public knowledge, and they could forget about getting re-elected.  It’s a method of ending the political careers of those who betray the American public trust for special interests.”

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DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILING:

Deception undermining our democracy.

Ryan spoke excitedly “That would mean politicians would have to be accountable to the people who voted them into public office, instead of the special interests paying for their political ads.  Wow, that’s something new! It would cut out voter demographic profiling.

The Government Accountability Office just released a statement about George W. Bush using our tax dollars to package his political agendas as news, and hiring news commentators to present them as being true.  It’s also interesting that our government-controlled media doesn’t release the names of the commentators or their networks. This fact alone speaks volumes about deceiving the American public.

It’s also reported our Army is deceiving the Iraqi public by falsifying news reports in newspapers. 

Isn’t it sad that our government has turned to using the same deceptive practices for controlling people as those who wore an ‘SS” on their collars in the early 1940”s?

Franchising would stop politicians from taking special interest money, or diverting our tax dollars to purchase our votes through misleading news and political commercials being demographically profiled to match our specific area norms and religious beliefs.

At present, a dishonest politician can use area specific cable networks to get elected by alluding to being:

·         Pro-life and Pro-war in rural areas,

·         Pro-choice and Anti-war in large cities, and

·         Pro-life and Anti-war in suburban areas. 

What’s crazy is America believes this junk, and what’s crazier is many contribute to political parties to pay for it.

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ORGANIZING FOR CHANGE:

Primary Concerns:

Did you realize that when you vote in a primary, your party preference is placed on a computer list, and your name, address and political preference are made available to the major political parties? 

Besides being a direct violation of the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002.  It’s a nice way to determine which counties can be manipulated by shorting ballots on election day.

The middleclass really needs to organize State, County and City Middleclass Reformist Political Parties, and vote for franchised middleclass candidates.  I can picture some barber, teacher or electrician going from block to block, knocking on doors saying -

“I’m running for Congress as a Middleclass Reformist Candidate. This is a picture of my family. I’m honest, and I don’t have any legal experience, which I consider to be a good thing.  My only special interests are my wife and kid’s, and my dog.  I have no use for the politicians and special interests that have been undermining our livelihoods. The back of the picture includes a copy of my signed affidavit agreeing to leave public office if I betray your trust.  Would you mind voting for me, and passing out copies of this information to everyone on your block?”

We can use the Internet to network, and have e-mail accessed registration and newsletters.  I'll bet high school and college kids would jump on the idea in a minute.  Gas prices have doubled since Bush took office, and health care has risen over 70 percent. It's their future that’s being eroded, and they are running out of time to save their quality of life!"

Robert said softly “That’s a good idea Ryan.  Special interests haven't figured out how to control our Internet, but you know darn well this administration is illegally data mining our conversations to discover which of us don’t like what Bush and his wealthy base on both sides of the isle are doing to our democracy. 

They would probably set aside our First Amendment ‘right to peaceably assemble’ by calling it a national security issue.  They would then label us as subversives or even insurgents.  They would do what ever they could to keep their special interests in control of our government.

Ryan asked Robert what he meant by diminishing middleclass.

Robert responded, “Everything done politically in our country appears to be pointed at creating a two class society by widening the gap between the middleclass, and the Bush BASE that’s represented by millionaires seated on both sides of the isle.”

Robert continued, “It’s evident they plan on destroying our country’s middleclass, just think about it!

·         They will double our population over the next twenty years using illegal immigrants who will put an end to our trade unions and physical service jobs. 

·         They allow big corporations to fire millions of American citizens earning a fair wage, and move their manufacturing and technical and financial service jobs to third world countries that pay employees sub-standard wages.

·         They borrow billions for wars of economic choice to support windfall profits that increase the stock portfolios for the few owing the majority of energy, military industrial, and special interest contractor stocks.  The borrowed billions increase our national debt, forcing their burden to be paid by the sweat equity of our children.   At present, it’s $124,000 per American family.

Robert concluded “We don’t have much time remaining to save our quality of life for our children.  If we don’t start getting politically involved now, it’s going to be too late, and we’ll have no one to blame but ourselves.”

Ryan patted Robert on the shoulder in an approving gesture, thanked him for his input, and sat back in his seat.