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SternSkipper -> RE: Stupid protestors and percentages (10/10/2011 2:12:34 PM)
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In the emerging platform however, you have a voice, that being at least up front, the vote. How much of the proposed list can you agree with? How much do you think steps over a line and shouldn't be part of the platform or demands.
I have to say that for the moment, I am only interested in two issues as my primaries (although there are at least a half dozen I am thinking about frequently) and I feel absolutely no obligation to look at the rest. Reason why? The movement is still spreading and I think that regardless of where you go, you will see the two issues I am most concerned with.
1) Find a way to end the influence of corporations and PACs in Washington and restore representative government... instead of the party-line bullshit. Votoers should be able to demand consideration ony any issue from their elected official starting the day they assume office. Instead, what is happening is that they are having staffers pay lip service to individual constituents while they do the bidding of corporations as their primary activity.
2)Make sure that it's clear NO ONE is 'too big to fail' and force shareholders to share the company's liability. And also stop treating corporations as a "person" .
Like I said, there are others ... but I really think the group has to fill out and all the voices get their chance before anyone whittles things down much.
I can right off the bat point to stuff that's sort of hokey and a bit less than rational... such as the declaration that the land on which we stand in Massachusetts is stolen and belongs to the indigenous people. Since it's an issue that was dealt with in Massachusetts extensively, in the 70s, I think it's not one of the most critcal issues. Let people bring that up later once the country's economy and temperament is again stable.
Yeah, I know what that sounds like... but it's how you have to look at it if you commit to the cause of this movement.
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