This diary asks a very important question what if in 2012 American working class voters
did just that,......that is they as a group stopped voting for Millionaires. Look we know the system is corrupt, what if en masse the great American working class stopped playing the millionaires media game and came to one simple conclusion, that said no matter how much this millionaire candidate raises, and no matter what their slick media ads say, we will never be fooled ever by media manipulation into voting against our own working class interests ever again. We're gonna follow a simple litmus test, if you're a millionaire we're not going to vote for you. Case closed. What would happen without any doubt in the 2012 elections is America would change permanently and for the better. I defy anybody with a straight face to contradict that.
As an American expat living in the European Union I've come to rely on the mainstream media within the European Union in order to receive impartial information and objective reporting on the United States in terms of economic and political investigative reporting, which is unavailable measurably in the US plutocrat owned media, which refuses to bite the hand that feeds it. So it is we have turned to the British newspaper The Guardian, which asks a very honest and straightforward question which is, what if we stopped voting for millionaires?
This is your chance to reply! Make you voice heard by the 1% today!
guardian quote: "Here's a revolutionary idea: why not elect some poor people?"
According to the survey, by the Centre for Responsive Politics, almost half of America's senators and members of the House of Representatives are millionaires. A full 261 one of them, in fact. Meanwhile, a mere 1% of the rest of Americans can claim such exalted status.
Paul Harris
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 24 November 2010
US Congress aka the millionaires' club
No wonder the DC political class has a bad name – it's filthy rich. Here's a revolutionary idea: why not elect some poor people?
A sign of class Warfare is when the U.S. Congress has become a Millionaires club in America .
Then the U.S Congress becomes the Government for the rich by the rich. So where does that leave working class America? Well it leaves 59 million Americans without health care, it leaves 132 million without dental care, 45 million on food stamps, 60 million without paid sick leave. Millions more are left unemployed or underemployed all this is to say nothing of the millions who played by the rules who are left in underwater mortgages and who's kids and parents are left to drown in student loan debt.
guardian quote :"Here's a revolutionary idea: why not elect some poor people?"
"Political Capitol: a new report has found that almost half of congressional members are millionaires."
SO MR. AND MS AMERICA WHY DON’T YOU STOP VOTING FOR MILLIONAIRS in 2012 AND VOTE SOME WORKING CLASS POOR IN TO THE CONGRESS.That's WHAT THE BRITISH GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER ASKED AMERICA 2 YEARS AGO during the midterm election. YOU HAVE NOT ANSWERED THE QUESTION THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO DO SO. ALL COMMENTS ON THIS DIARY WILL BE SENT TO THE GUARDIAN. (SO PLEASE POST TODAY)! YOUR VOICE WILL BE HEARD YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. YOU HAVE THE POWER!
guardian quote:"Here's a revolutionary idea: why not elect some poor people?
After all, with 50 million Americans facing food insecurity and a poverty rate near 15%, it is not like they are in short supply.
In 2012 just elect the working class to the U.S. Congress and change America for good!!
Now you may ask is it really that simple? Is it really? The short answer is YES!
But then the the truth usually is simple. It's lies that have to be complex!
Here is the point and it is a short one. In keeping with the old adage, the definition of insanity must be to keep doing the same thing, and expect a different result. If we want real change in 2012, we can't do the same thing we have done in the past. Because the status quo doesn't want change. It wants stable consistency of the status quo. If we want real change stop voting for millionaires. Simple litmus test, if someone is a millionaire, and you're a working class stiff, don't vote for them, because you know the millionaires are not going to help you. If someone is going to help you, it's going to be another working class stiff just like you. If you do that you are going to create real change and you will change America for the better. If you don't do that, if you continue to play their crooked game, by their crooked rules, you are going to get the same crooked deal you're going to get today. That's the point of this diary. If you want real change, you're going to have to create it. If you want the helping hand, look down at the end of your own sleeve, or look to the person standing next to you and please stop looking to the exalted millionaire class. We know they don't care about you. They don't care about America either.
JUST VOTE THE MILLIONARES OUT OF CONGRESS!!!
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Buying Congress in 2012
Posted by Bill McKibben at 9:47am, January 5, 2012.
Startling numbers of Americans are “underwater” -- homeowners and students alike -- and so, for that matter, is Congress, even if in quite a different way. In these last years, it’s been flooded with money. Millionaires, including at least 10 centimillionaires, now make up nearly half of our representatives there, and as a group, they have been growing ever richer as Americans grow ever poorer. Bad times? Never heard of them. Congress’s median net worth rose by 15% between 2004 and 2010 -- and this news, in a recent front-page New York Times piece, hardly caused a stir.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/...
To win in America all we have to do is to care about each other & stick together!
If we are looking for change we must look to the Occupy movement to provide that
peaceful nonviolent approach to change in helping to elect better progressive politicians to public office. The Occupy movement and the American unions are the last great hope of the American working class dream!!
While we can all be proud Americans, surely we don't have to be proud of the broken American social safety net. There we should, must and can do better!
PS: In response to the numerous comments which state a working class candiate has no chance without being able to raise millions, let me please offer this one brief comment. It doesn't matter how much money a multi-millionaire candidate raises to spend on media buys, if we follow a simple litmus that says we are not going to be fooled by the slick marketing of media ads to vote against our own working class best interests now or ever again, because we know the purpose of these ads is not to inform us but to deceive us. We cannot vote for the multimillionaire candidates for public office ever again, because they will represent their big campaign contributors and not us. We know if we are going to vote for change, we have to vote for somebody who is another working class American just like us. They'll help us, the multi-millionaire candidates won't! That is the history of the betrayal of the American working class by the multi-millionaire political ruling class.
I issue this challenge and I defy anyone with a straight face to contradict me because when it comes to the political millionaire ruling class, these people nearly all go to the same universities and fraternities or sororities, they're in the same country clubs and many of them serve on the same boards. Their interests converge overall. They're not the same page as working class America they will never act in working class interests. The only way of effectuating real political change is to elect working class politicians whom the ruling millionaire elite class would view as the poor.
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