Enumerate a bunch of well-known problems.
Find a common element that would eliminate them.
Work out a clever way to set up a meme to inform the population.
Settle back in your chair and watch it work.
BeachImpeach cost $2500, paid for by one cabbie.
It has received worldwide attention and provided a visual for the idea of immediate impeachment, generating publicity that ad agencies dream of.
It harnessed volunteers who looked at it and recognized an idea whose time has come.
The oligarchy operates best in the confusion generated by a tight balance between the political parties.
Think about it. It means the oligarchy (and you can bet your whole life on it!) will work against which ever party gets the upper hand.
Chaos, as the Chinese said so long ago, is the same character as opportunity.
You think the oligarchy is stupid? Do you think they didn't KNOW George W. Bush would fuck things up?
Who's making the money in Iraq? Arms merchants and companies that clean up after them, all operating in the fog of war, vacuuming up dollars in quantities that boggle burgle the mind...
The solution, of course, when you look at it this way, is public financing of elections.
Public financing breaks corporate control of legislators. Corporation taxes paying for elections doesn't just remove them from the game, it reverses the game.
When this gets mentioned automatically around here as a matter of course, my work will be done.
An idea whose time has come. Public election financing.