If you want to change the system, you need to attack the companies that

[liberaldemocrat7]

If you want to change the system, you need to attack the companies that have a hold on the system.

The drug companies, the pharmacy chains and the insurance companies have a hold on health care.

General Electric, Westinghouse, Halliburton have a hold on war policy.

Many companies have a hold on our crooked election system.



Do what unions do, go on a purchasing strike against these companies and make legislative demands of them.

Otherwise the system will not change to any great extent and the new officeholders will show loyalty to these companies to a similar degree that the defeated ones did.

[Skidmore]

1. Thank you for this thread.

I posited a question yesterday along these lines on the insurance companies, but got snorts of derision and doom and gloom scenarios on how it would destroy the world as we know it. Well, the world as we know it is severely messed up and needs change. Right now there is no incentive for any of these systems to change. I agree with you.

[liberaldemocrat7]

3. OK, then I have several actions you can take.

One comes from my signature below. Another comes from calling GE and demanding their CEO get Bush to end the war and then resign with Cheney.

I hope you will begin forming little organizations in your state to spread the message and encourage people in other states to do so as well.

Begin today.

Also look at http://www.dmocrats.org and send that letter to the GOP.




Oh and the derision you get comes from the corporatist Democrats on this board and the Republicans posing as Democrats. Don't listen to them. You do realize that DU appears infiltrated with paid and unpaid GOP shills.

[Double T]

2. "We the People" are the ONLY ones that can change the current situation.........

and defeat our existing corporatocracy. Revolution may be the only cure, as history has proved.

[CrispyQ]

4. Humboldt County leads the charge!

Challenging Corporate Power: California Community Says Companies Are Not People; Bans Campaign Donations
By Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, YES! Magazine. Posted September 5, 2007.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/61737/

snip...

In 2006, Humboldt County, California, became the latest, and largest, jurisdiction to abolish the legal doctrine known as "corporate personhood."

Measure T was successful because our all-volunteer campaign came together to pass a law that bans non-local corporations from participating in Humboldt elections. The referendum, which passed with 55 percent of the vote, also asserts that corporations cannot claim the First Amendment right to free speech.

By enacting Measure T, Humboldt County has committed an act of "municipal civil disobedience," intentionally challenging "settled law." But voters also recognize that Measure T is an act of common sense. We polled our community and found that 78 percent believe corruption is more likely if corporations participate in politics.

The Measure T campaign was led by women and young people, with critical support from elders and feminist men. This diverse leadership created a culture of cooperation and collaboration that permeated the campaign, and made it as much about community as about a win on election day. For example, the law itself was written using a consensus process, the advice of volunteers was valued just as highly as input from experts and consultants, and we organized numerous parties and social events to help spread the word.

more at link: http://www.alternet.org/workplace/61737/

Also, a nice list of FAQ from the Yes on T! site: http://www.votelocalcontrol.org/ordinance_faq.htm