Video Diary – 2 July 2015
Everybody build the campaign Politicians R Criminals!
I will be talking to you every week on what we’re up against and what we can do to win this fight.
Politicians are Criminals is a real challenge to the mainstream media.
Listen to my Anti Fracking interview on Sky News.
In the US, re-election of incumbents (due mostly to gerry-mandering, plus the mafia like group ethos of both political parties, who don’t swap out their preferred ‘godfathers’ easily), makes reform very difficult. The cunning (see http://tinyurl.com/ocjune7) and corruption of the mainstream parties is poorly matched by the cluelessness of the ‘activists’, who may have noble intentions, but can’t strategize their way out of a paper bag. Not when opposing plutocratic agendas, anyway. See various diaries of mine, whose title contains the phrase “The Plutocrats are Laughing at You”, at my.firedoglake.com and correntewire.com.
If you could hire a crack team of programmers for about 1 month, they could create a couple of pro-democracy tools that would help disrupt the smug complacency of incumbents, and help overcome mainstream media blackouts and fraudulent framing. (TTP was basically blacked out of mainstream media coverage, in the US, with the exception of the Ed Schultz show on msnbc).
I sketched out those tools here: http://tinyurl.com/oy45vt3
I’ve described one of those tools as similar to what votizen.com used to provide, EXCEPT that it’ll be used for negative (“fire the bastard”) campaigns. Votizen is no more, but you can grasp it’s essentials by looking at youtube videos: http://tinyurl.com/oohtdh5
Comment by metamars on 11/07/2015 at 4:02 pm
I didn’t make it clear, but reelection of incumbents is VERY high, in the US. In the 2014 elections, it was 95%. See https://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/reelect.php
and http://tinyurl.com/ldztshs
In the US system, it is MUCH easier to get rid of an incumbent during a primary, via a challenger of the same party. And yet, this knowledge isn’t widespread, much less a focus of ‘activists’.
Comment by metamars on 11/07/2015 at 4:20 pm
は別の偉大なポストをありがとうございました。どこの誰が書いているような完璧な方法で情報のようなものを得ることができますか？私はそのような情報を探すには、来週のプレゼンテーションを持っており、イム。私たちのすべてでこれを共有するあなたは本当にあなたが何について話しているのかを知っているため
Comment by スピーカー付ポーチ ミニバッグ メンズ ポーチ メンズ FYDELITY フェディリティ on 29/11/2015 at 6:19 pm