By Sami Jamil.
I believe after many years of shifting congressional powers between Democrats and Republicans nothing has changed for Main Street America, with both parties committed to Wall Street and the influence of big money.
Both parties are the same, different sides of the same coin, failed Main Street in almost every thing, from jobs, to social security, to wars, to education, social services, health, housing, infrastructure certainly the environment and an unfair tax system.
Notwithstanding the lies and propaganda we hear from both Republicans and Democratic candidates, all of them are beholding to big dollars, to the rich and powerful, with citizens reduced to showing up at the voting booth as cattle’s at the watering hole.
Both parties, seek the necessary funding and alliance with the rich so that can convince the poor Main Street to vote for them through political strategists, polestars and 30 seconds advertisements that make mockery of voters and their intelligence hiding the stupidity and fakeness of these candidates.
With Citizens United, it is the money, the SuperPacs, the billionaires from Hollywood, Texas, Wall Street and Los Vegas already lined up behind major candidates from both parties. This coming presidential election is a test of who is more powerful and influential, the billionaires behind the Republicans or the billionaires behind the Democrats.
While admitting that reforming a corrupt inept political process could not take place over night or in a single election cycle, there is certainty that we as citizens and voters can change the entire political process as we see it now within the next 10 years.
And yes, we can defeat Citizen United not in grand halls of the Supreme Court but in the privacy of voting booths. We can defeat big dollars, pollsters, political strategists who package candidates with the 30 seconds sound bite and TV ads. Without our votes candidates with hundred of millions behind them could not win an office.
The key and focused objective of any new political movement is not to compete in the current presidential race but to target key congressional elections where candidates have shown themselves over an over as Wall Street First, Main Street Last, America Last, Israel First, and at the behest of lobbyists.
The new political movement must not be an extension or beholding to one or the two political parties as the Tea Party, and must not seek funding and support from major donors like the Koch Brothers, or Adelson, or Saban. Most important must not be ideologically driven by politics of faith, but politics of common sense.
Support and funding must come from individual voters and members. NO SuperPacs, but membership money and small donation, but most important commitment to vote. with the objective to transform and change the existing political landscape within the next 10 years. Seeking a majority of at least 40% in legislative houses across America and the nation capital. To achieve that,
- Candidates for local and congressional offices must be committed to term limits (6-8 years) thus transforming legislative houses to citizen houses not a place for lifetime professional politicians.
- Candidates must be committed to end the seniority system, which gives long time sitting politicians an unfair edge in money and influence in elections and change this seniority system once in office.
- Candidates must be committed not to seek or accept any funding from outside their local, congressional or senatorial districts. Thus limiting the amount and influence of outside money.
- Candidates must commit themselves to a maximum of 3 months of campaigning and accepting no “issue” funding from special lobbies.
- Candidates must be committed to America First and seek to limit the toxic and undue influence Israel and its Fifth Column and AIPAC have over Congress and the White House.
- Candidates must be committed to reform and overhaul the Tax System simplifying it from 300,000 pages to less than 30 pages making sure that every citizens, every corporation and every business pay their fair share of the tax. No more tax loopholes.
- Candidates must be committed to re-invest in America First, in re-industrialization of America, in infrastructures, public transportation systems, public educations, industrial educations, parks and public facilities forcing the more of than $3 trillions of America’s corporate money sitting in tax shelters back to the US.
- Candidates must commit themselves not accept lobbying money and favors including paid trips by foreign governments, lobbyists or special interests.
- Candidates must be committed to a drastic reform of the financial system including the undue and toxic influence of Wall Street has on political, economic and social life, making sure that corporations (as citizens) are subject to criminal prosecutions with executives going to jail for crimes or fraud committed by their corporations.
- Candidates must be committed to reform our judicial, criminal justice, social and welfare services system to bring America in line with other nations, and seek reconciliations between all of our citizens, making America a united nation we should be.
- Candidates must be committed to a balance budget with a budget cycle of 5 years thus avoiding all the uncertain paralysis facing our nation annually.
- Candidates must be committed to NO More Wars, while keeping our nation strong to defend itself against enemy aggression.
We as citizens and voters must not under estimate our power, the right to vote, which is more powerful than all the billions raised in elections. Without over vote no one can win an office.
