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| Wiggle your Big Toe |
Back when I was young, I was a big fan of Sears. I liked Craftsman tools, I bought my appliances there, home products... I spent a lot of money at Sears. I even had a Sears credit card.
I was doing OK back then, even had an excellent (844) credit score. Despite my best efforts, I was a week late on a $10 payment one month. My good friends at Sears decided that was reason to ding my credit.
OK... fine... but because of their decision, I paid off my account and haven't stepped foot in a Sears store in over 40 years. I voted with my feet. I'm sure Sears didn't notice.
Corporations today are far more ruthless. We've seen Wells Fargo openly defrauding customers just this week. Should their customers continue to trust Wells Fargo? Um... FUCK NO! They should vote with their feet... and find a different bank... perhaps one that doesn't use fraud as their business model. I recommend looking into employee-owned credit unions over big banks if possible. And let's be frank here... banks are doing a lot more than defrauding their customers.
I wrote about the use of attack dogs at the NDPL recently. Private corporate security unleashed dogs on citizens to protect a corporate-owned pipeline. Wells Fargo, Bank of America and others fund the pipeline (and the dog attacks). I don't support banks who fund corporations that do this to citizens. So, for me, this is another opportunity to vote with my feet.
Now, I'm sure I don't have any reason to suggest or suspect that my choice to vote with my feet, as an individual, is going to bring down a huge corporation (the subsequent huge decline in Sears sales notwithstanding)... but this election has woken up a large block of people who are fed up with corporations and their deceitful actions. And if they ALL vote with their feet, there is going to be hell to pay!
This election, voters are voting with their feet! There is no question - many Republicans left the Republican party... even former Republican Presidents... and Demexit was the official title of the Democrat party exodus. Voters don't want what they're being offered. Even loyal customers are turned off by this election.
The key to voting with our feet is organizing... and this is what the corporations are showing us they are intent to prevent. The media is, of course, involved and we've seen how Google has started influencing politics around the world simply by rigging its search priorities.
So how do other large blocks of voters organize? One attempt has been under the flag of Our Revolution - run by former Sander's campaign manager Jeff Weaver. Another has been Wolf Pac - supported by The Young Turks. The problem with both of these is that nobody is quite sure if the direction they are going is the same direction our feet are taking us in November. We're voting with our feet...
Between now and November, voters need to decide which way their feet will take them. Are they fed up with corporations buying politicians? Are they fed up with corporations running prisons? Running our elections? Are they fed up with racism and Islamophobia? Of the murder of people of color by police? Are they fed up with student loan debt? Denial of health care? Denial of a decent living wage? What are voters fed up with? Where are our feet taking us?
For me, the answer is not going to be found within the two-party system. And the current "organizers" I mentioned above seem to want to bring change from within that system. My feet are skeptical... and they can't wait to run from both Democrat and Republican parties... (Sorry Jeff and Cenk).
I guess we will have to see how this plays out... but for the moment, I'm leaning toward third-party candidates. I'm leaning away from incumbents. I've come out of my coma... I've wiggled my big toe... and I'm ready to VOTE WITH MY FEET! Who's with me?
If the mainstream media didn't report it, it didn't happen. It doesn't matter that some of us actually experienced election fraud and voter suppression, this was our imagination working overtime. Bill Clinton visiting the polling stations, elimination of hundreds of polling stations, misprinted ballots, discarded ballots, outrageously inaccurate exit polls, faulty voting machines, 5-hour lines, media collusion... Don't worry... Everything is fine... move along. Hillary won fair and square... forget what you EXPERIENCED... believe what we tell you. Who would question their own government after all? Who but "anti-Americans" would suggest our government is not being forthright with the people?
PATRIOTS... that's who! People who believe in DEMOCRACY... that's who. People who believe we cannot have democracy without fair elections! People who believe our Constitution gave us the right - the OBLIGATION to protest our government - to demand our voices be heard. Americans demand that our government represents US - and we tell our government how to do that by VOTING.
When voting is being suppressed - when vote counts are tampered with - It is someone who is NOT a PATRIOT who is doing this! Voter suppression goes against the Constitution and the will of the people... you know... WE THE PEOPLE...
So, let's be clear here... because we actually SAW what happened in the "Democratic" primary with our own eyes. We didn't see a UFO... The primary was simply RIGGED. NO question. Anyone can search "Voter Suppression 2016" for dozens of video testimonies.
We also saw what happened at the DNC. More suppression - this time it was suppression of the DELEGATES. As I said above, it's people who are NOT PATRIOTS who support this!
So, who is surprised that people who experienced voter suppression cannot back the candidate who is the beneficiary of that voter suppression? Anybody? But what about the people who support that candidate? Do they support VOTER SUPPRESSION? To many of us... the answer is YES! They support voter suppression when they pretend Hillary won "fair and square". They are NOT patriots - they don't love democracy like the rest of us do. To these anti-Americans who support voter suppression, WE are "being ridiculous". And guess what... WE'RE NOT BEING RIDICULOUS! We're being AMERICANS!
What I find "ridiculous" is the number of people who don't GET THIS! There is NO moving forward with the Democratic party and a candidate who stole the primary and now simply doesn't have the votes to support their candidacy. The votes they suppressed in order to have their candidate win the primary are NOT votes for their candidate in the general. Hillary Clinton is millions of votes SHORT. That's why she needs REPUBLICANS to vote for her. Voting for Hillary Clinton is literally voting AGAINST DEMOCRACY!
So who are the anti-Americans who are supporting a rigged election? When you look closely, they are the very establishment that Hillary Clinton will be representing as President. Millionaires and billionaires support the theme that "Hillary won fair and square". Celebrities, politicians, business people... they support Hillary by ignoring election rigging... or more accurately - they ignore election rigging to support Hillary. Seriously - Fuck them!
And so for me, and for millions of Americans who are patriots, and cannot support the anti-American notion of stealing elections, Hillary Clinton may as well not be on the ballot. There is NOTHING that will convince me to "vote" against democracy.
Those politicians and entertainment personalities who support Clinton and insist I must, are asking me to vote against AMERICA! Not only that, but I SEE them as anti-American and cannot support THEM in their ventures - whether they are politicians or celebrities. Their facade has been peeled away and I see them for what they are... exploiters of the people - just like the politicians they support. Their viewer numbers have dropped and they are realizing there is a cost to supporting election rigging.
So, "Democratic" party... this is WE the People saying... If you support your candidate through election fraud and voter suppression, don't expect us to support ANY of you! There are LOTS of people running for President. We can choose from among those who believe in DEMOCRACY!
