I Vote With My Feet

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?

Election Rigged Against Giant Meteor!

Little-known Giant Meteor campaign

The Mainstream Media didn't cover the long shot campaign of this little known third-party candidate.  
Going by the name of "Giant Meteor", the third party candidate (considered ineligible due to alien status by many) gathered a small following upon entering the race.  Excitement grew quickly as Giant Meteor's media "splash" approached.  

However, that all ended Sunday as Giant Meteor's campaign which was expected to "hit the ground in a big way" veered off course for at least this election cycle.


A spokesman for Giant Meteor who wished to remain anonymous, suggested that Democrats may have rigged the timing against Giant Meteor "splash" as early as the Democratic primaries.  

"While it can't be proven, nobody can deny that having millions of people waiting for hours at a time in line to vote certainly could have caused enough drag on the planet to alter the results of this election!"

Indeed, there were long lines in many states, and people waited hours in those lines, but did Giant Meteor even have a chance?  The Mainstream Media were calling Giant Meteor "a bigger threat than we know" - even using the slur "Asteroid" in their descriptions... suggesting Meteor was "too big". 

Running as an "outsider" Giant Meteor never had a chance.

Certainly, nobody can deny that Giant Meteor was running as an "outsider".  And third-party outsiders don't stand a chance.  But then, an OUTSIDER is exactly what the voting public has been clamoring for... isn't it?

Did the voters see something new in Giant Meteor?  Something they weren't seeing in the other candidates?  Was it that Giant Meteor seemed like their only chance at a fresh start?  

Yes, that appears to be what the polls confirmed, that faced with the choice of only Clinton or Trump, most people preferred Giant Meteor.  Now that it's too late, we see no harm in looking at Giant Meteor's platform and what voters liked about it.

Giant Meteor's Platform:

1. The end of all wars. And who can deny that, while ambitious, Giant Meteor's threat of ending all war and disarming the entire planet is wonderful.

2. The collapse of the world banking system. Giant Meteor promised to end the banking system as we know it by executive order.

3. No more taxes. Giant Meteor would eliminate taxes AND money.

4. All debts are cancelled.  Giant Meteor would cancel all debts, debits, deficits.

5. Good education for all.  What could be more educating for us than to learn what happens when we offer only Trump and Clinton as our choices.  Giant Meteor would educate us for FREE.

6. No more billionaires! In fact, no more big banks, no big pharma, no corporations, no military industrial complex.

7. A LEVEL playing field.  Giant Meteor would level the playing field for everyone (who's left).

Needless to say, there could have been a lot of appeal for Giant Meteor 2016.  

We can dream, can't we?

The good news is, apparently there are LOTS of giant meteors just waiting to be discovered.  They are hitting our planet daily, on a much smaller scale... down-ballot, so to speak.  And who knows, some say Giant Meteor will be back again next cycle.  We can only hope!





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