When your local charity that advocates for better mental health sends someone to speak
That’s worlds apart from profit-based corporations and rich people sending money, hosting high dollar fundraisers and bundling hundreds if not thousands of maximum “individual” donations. Not even the same UNIVERSE as unlimited dark money.
three course meal experience as the cost of having that talk with the lobbyist(…)Sure, we could make that sort of lobbying illegal
That it isn’t already is extremely embarrassing to anyone who claims that corruption isn’t rampant in American politics. It already IS illegal for doctors to do that and, while there’s a lot of people exploiting loopholes, it’s nothing compared to the number of politicians doing it like it’s the most natural thing in the world.
The IRS is already getting the shaft
Mainly BECAUSE of the rich and powerful being the de facto deciders of most laws
Do you think congress will ever agree to pay money to set up something to investigate themselves?
They will if they’re forced to. I’m thinking a general strike and just 1/1000 of the people dissatisfied with the corruption protesting in front of their offices every day for a few weeks or months ought to do it. Could even do it in shifts so no one person has to go more than a couple times a month and still have plenty enough to make the status quo that’s needlessly killing hundreds of thousands of people people unbearable to the corrupt demagogues maintaining it too.
I’m thinking a general strike and just 1/1000 of the people
If you want a general strike to happen en masse, you need to create an organization to coordinate it. If Occupy Wall Street showed anything, it’s that you need leadership to provide organization and coordination.
One of the things this organization will need to be able to do is put food on the table for someone who’s striking but living paycheck to paycheck. It’ll need to be able to take care of people that are fired.
It would effectively need to brand itself as a citizen’s union, and ask for dues and donations so it can build a war chest for the strike itself.
Shits tough to do. For that much effort, people would rather just go into politics and try to make a difference there. And that is actually something that we need more people to do.
That’s worlds apart from profit-based corporations and rich people sending money, hosting high dollar fundraisers and bundling hundreds if not thousands of maximum “individual” donations. Not even the same UNIVERSE as unlimited dark money.
That it isn’t already is extremely embarrassing to anyone who claims that corruption isn’t rampant in American politics. It already IS illegal for doctors to do that and, while there’s a lot of people exploiting loopholes, it’s nothing compared to the number of politicians doing it like it’s the most natural thing in the world.
Mainly BECAUSE of the rich and powerful being the de facto deciders of most laws
They will if they’re forced to. I’m thinking a general strike and just 1/1000 of the people dissatisfied with the corruption protesting in front of their offices every day for a few weeks or months ought to do it. Could even do it in shifts so no one person has to go more than a couple times a month and still have plenty enough to make the status quo that’s needlessly killing hundreds of thousands of people people unbearable to the corrupt demagogues maintaining it too.
If you want a general strike to happen en masse, you need to create an organization to coordinate it. If Occupy Wall Street showed anything, it’s that you need leadership to provide organization and coordination.
One of the things this organization will need to be able to do is put food on the table for someone who’s striking but living paycheck to paycheck. It’ll need to be able to take care of people that are fired.
It would effectively need to brand itself as a citizen’s union, and ask for dues and donations so it can build a war chest for the strike itself.
Shits tough to do. For that much effort, people would rather just go into politics and try to make a difference there. And that is actually something that we need more people to do.