As My Party Continues to Crater

[theFrankFactor]

I hope my fellow Progressives and Liberals seize this catastrophe as an opportunity. I have been asking myself for years, how bad things must get before there is a paradigm shift and this play act that the DLC and the RNC perform for Americans is exposed. My heart leaps at the prospect that we may be just starting to turn that corner. I don't believe in, nor have I ever advocated for --take note moderators-- a third party in spite of accusations by this site to the contrary, and I still don't! I believe the best road to recovery is within this party and its existing lines of communication and action. The best effect being closer to the bottom and farther away from party corporate apparatchiks at the top.

We are routinely used and abused by a system that has been taken over by corporate power and only by true "People Power" are we ever going to have a fighting chance to take it back. All current institutions and power structures should be suspect.

We must broaden our view to include serious reform of key elements of the system.

Below is an incomplete and rough sketch of what I believe this reformation/revolution should encompass if it is to even begin to make any real change possible. Let's join together "out here" in the real world to bring government in line with "We The People" and not as a tool for corporate exploitation of the planet.

Restoring Democracy and Taking Control of Our Nation Away From Corporations

Thesis: Elected officials from the present two party system represent the interests of corporations over and above the Constitution and the electorate. America has been lead into a dangerous and unstable condition due to the exploitation of the People’s government by corporate influence. There must be an accountability system that punishes public servant behavior that subverts electorate representation for corporate favoritism. The separation of corporations, as well as church and state, must be initiated and enforced.


Objectives

1. Make elected representatives answer to the electorate.
2. Remove corporate influence from all levels of public governance


Suggested Goals to Accomplish These Objectives

1. Publicly fund elections
2. Eliminate corporate person-hood
3. Initiate instant runoff voting
4. Eliminate electoral college
5. Ban exiting public officials from accepting lobbyist positions
6. Oversight of the Federal Reserve
7. Tax reformation
8. Budget reformation


Citizen Actions to Accomplish These Objectives

1. Strengthen and expand alternate media
2. Infiltrate existing party systems to affect changes
3. Exploit current means to pressure representatives
4. Prepare, support, and run Liberal/Progressive candidates


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[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. elected officials should communicate personally with constitutents

not just before the election. Voters don't have a clue what they are doing in Washington as they only watch TV or maybe read the odd thing in the press.

Curb the media by putting hit squads in for rebuttal and keep the Democratic agenda moving. There's no propaganda from the Dems - plenty from the Grand Oil Party.

[Tutankhamun]

2. I've also been thinking that we may be turning the corner.

The oil spill may act as a catalyst to our awakening. The corporate media will continue trying to twist this catastrophe, but it could backfire on them. People have to realize that it wasn't caused by environmental groups "forcing" the poor powerless corporations to destroy the Gulf Coast. This line of reasoning is so incredibly specious that it will definitely help some people to see through the MSM shell game. Of course, A LOT of people just don't want to see the truth.

[theFrankFactor]

3. Really? Nobody Gives a Fuck? Okay, I'll Kick Myself.

[tiny elvis]

4. i do not believe people who say

they are dedicated to the party and want to change it substantially
i do not think that partisans or nonpartisans are impressed by persons claiming the best intentions for both them and their adversaries
choose a side and try to find some descriptions of paradigms for revolution
people must fear for their lives to revolt against native rulers
the most the dem party could offer in such descriptions is interim moderate mediation between entrenched power and revolutionaries

[Hestia]

5. Yeah, we give a fuck, but what have you said that 1M+/- posts haven't?

[pmorlan1]

6. K & R

Thanks for the post.

[yurbud]

7. require any TV or radio station with a broadcast license or cable monopoly to carry

a certain amount of campaign ads for free without the right to censor them, or they forfeit their licenses.

Likewise, to get those free ads, candidates must participate in certain forums that they have no control over, with questions chosen by the public or experts in various policy areas, not empty suit corporate spokesmodels, ie, Brokaw, Couric, Williams, Tyra Banks, etc.

[Demeter]

8. I Appreciate Your Dedication to the Party

and trying to make it function as intended. I too wish we could exclude the Corporations which have taken over, as using an established brand and party is much easier than starting up a new one. Which the Corporations know.

However, barring some great upheaval in the current power structure of the Party, I see no hope of it happening.

I don't see that we are turning any corners here--we are just barreling into a cul-de-sac. The only way out is to turn around completely--or blast through uncharted, unpaved wilderness, destroying all that is in the way, like houses, people, businesses...