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Regime Change Now: An Action
Plan Suggestion by
ERA (edarmas@yahoo.com) Regime change must start NOW. George Bush must be defeated in 2004. In order to achieve this end, work on the 2004 Presidential campaign must start NOW. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next month. We must act NOW to protect our Constitution and our civil liberties. We must work as if our lives depended on it; and it may. The key obstacles to effect REGIME CHANGE are: a lack of money, a corporate media that will pull out all the stops to get GWB re-elected, a possible rise of a third-party candidate, and an efficient election day organization. Money: The Republicans are rolling it in, and the Democrats will have a hard time raising money given the new Campaign Finance laws. Obviously, every attempt to raise sufficient monies must be made. Small donations at the grassroots level will lock voters in and motivate them to vote. But assuming that enough monies cannot be raised, then an efficient grassroots voter registration, get-out-the vote, Internet organizing effort must start immediately. Corporate Media: We will not get them all, but let's start with MSNBC. Boycott MSNBC! Call the cable company and tell them that you do not want the MSNBC cable channel in your home. If they decline to remove the channel, block the channel with a 'parental block'. If enough viewers block MSNBC, the message will get through to the advertisers. Boycotts work, but they must be focused. Let's start here. Third Parties: Had there been no third party in the last election GWB would not have been in a position to be appointed. The only vehicle/party/group large enough to effect a victory in a general election is the Democratic Party. So even if you have to hold your nose, remember what the goal is. Failure to get behind one candidate will assure GWB's tenure in the White House for another four years. Election Day Organization: The Republicans have become the masters of dirty politics-something that the Democrats had a lock on. Well the result of that chicanery, has resulted in many contested elections where the Republicans have won because of the expense of contesting the election. Time to turn the tables. If you are interested in developing an internet link to discuss these issues, please respond. The proposed site will be strictly limited to organizational issues in the 2004 election. by Trevor Batten Re: ERA's message ERA (edarmas@yahoo.com) wrote: "We must act NOW to protect our Constitution and our civil liberties. We must work as if our lives depended on it; and it may." Not only yours one might add. However, the citizens of the US are perhaps the only people who can peacefully save the world from a US lead global civil war. ERA wrote: "Corporate Media: We will not get them all, but let's start with MSNBC. Boycott MSNBC!" Personally I'd dump Microsoft in any case. ERA wrote: "Third Parties: Had there been no third party in the last election GWB would not have been in a position to be appointed." This is a problem -apparently at one point Milosovic only had 19% of Serbian voters behind him -but this was enough to keep him in power because the opposition was divided. On the other hand, I'm not sure that a Democrat need be the answer. In Holland Pim Fortuyn came out of the blue and did very well in the Dutch elections (even as a dead candidate). This was probably more because of a widespread dissatisfaction with spin politics and less to do with racism as the media liked to suggest. However, internal fighting has now severely decimated the party -possibly because most of those in government posts had had no previous professional political experience. On the other hand, the Dutch Labour Party is now supporting the Christian Democrats support of the war (in order not to damage the possibility of forming a coalition government). If politics is "the art of the possible" then one needs to be pretty skillful to make essential (realistic) compromises which do not damage one's credibility. However, I guess that's true of life in general. Pim Fortuyn: http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=iso-88591&q=%22Pim+Fortuyn%22&_sb_l\ang=en by Sophia Barkat Re: ERA's post What Campaign Finance reforms have created problems for Democrats? I'm not aware of them. Money: Democrats are rolling in it too. If Republicans endorsed the American Physicians Association, guess who supports the exact opposite lobby. That's the problem with the existing political parties. They will pander to anyone for money. Corporate Media: MSNBC is just one problem. If you look at all the TV channels save CSPAN they were pro-war. I think the problem is not just that the Press took sides, but that they did this because they along with Democrats and Republicans in Congress thought it would be unpatriotic and unpopular to take the anti-war side. If senior members of the Democratic Party were not gutless and waiting for public polls to find out how people feel, we'd have seen some difference in the media. Recall, that right after the war started and reports of boycotts of American goods started coming in, CNN started doing shows about dissension in the Pentagon regarding Rumsfeld's War plan were introduced. Clearly, CNN's was concerned that it's advertisers, mostly global companies, were not too happy with the boycott and were probably changing their stance on the Iraq-US War. Third Parties: I don't think third parties have been a huge divisive factor in American politics. Strategies like having Senator John McCain run against Bush Jr. for the Republican ticket in 2000 helped to steal votes from Democrats though. Worth noting is that you need to be the darling of the media to steal any votes and McCain had media time, where as most third-party candidates don't. This is because third-party candidates don't have the finances to spend on media advertising, whereas the two party candidates do. Even people like Steve Forbes who have next to no popularity in America but lots of money don't go it alone and usually sign up with one of the two parties. Rarely do we have someone who is already a media darling or a rich guy who can effectively win media time during elections. I think the Media has a bias towards the two-party system probably because most of the corporate sponsors are pro-Republican or pro-Democrat. Election organization: Both parties are organizing on their own. Who would we plan for? Which candidate and why? It would be nice to have more dialogue on how each party is going about running their campaigns and to speculate why they are doing what they are doing. Do you have a site yet? If so, let us know. |
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