How Can I Do This?
PHASE I - Organize
1. Get it clear in your head that you are sick and tired of
both the ruling socialist parties, and that virtually all politicians
operate on the principle that they only have two jobs:
(a) to get
elected;
(b) to get
re-elected.
You are
now prepared to practice "Sniper Politics" and start knocking
off those politicians who have no clue about the Constitution to which
they take an oath to support and defend. This is Phase I of
"political guerilla warfare" that you are about to institute in
your state, your county and your precinct.
2. Owing no allegiance to any party, now you are free to start your
own. The ________________ (insert your own name) Party ought to be
able to influence the votes of at least ten households, and frankly,
that's plenty, if properly managed. (Ten households = 25 votes, on
average.) Have you ever wanted to vote twice? Well!
Don't be a piker! Vote 25 times this election! IF you will
sign up ten households in the __________ Party, on the condition that
each of them will get ten more households, you will then directly
influence and cast approximately 25 + 250 = 275 votes, and if those 100
households were to get only five households more, you would influence
another 500 households, or 1,250 more votes. 275 + 1,250 =
1525. Politicians would kill to get that many votes. So...
watch your backside. Keep a low profile, and stay armed.
This type
of guerilla warfare as applied to politics should be, to paraphrase
Nathan Bedford Forrest, "politics to the hilt." A
scorched earth policy, leaving no incumbents in office, can be a powerful
weapon, where you don't care whom you elect, as long as you knock an
incumbent out of office. Of course, once you have a good candidate,
in ANY party, you vote for him (I hope -- because shoveling manure and
running for office are two things Southern ladies should never have to
do, but by golly, if the men won't do it, it still has to be done).
Using the slogan, "Spirit of '76 - Re-elect
NOBODY!" we must overcome our squeamishness and vote for the
rattlesnake that is challenging the water moccasin. That is to say,
if the _________ Party were to endorse a challenger in five races, all
within your state, and three of those candidates win, you can claim a 60%
victory, and the incumbents can wonder what happened.
Some
people call this "Sniper Politics". It appeals to a
certain mentality. For the same reason that snipers do not operate
in large numbers, you cannot effectively manage a team of 500 people, but
you CAN manage a team of ten, and they CAN repeat the process. That
stays within the effective "span of control" that we can all
accomplish. I submit that every high school student, properly
motivated, can get ten votes for ANY candidate.
In the
beginning, assuming the worst case scenario, that you don't have a
politician who understands that his job is to support and defend the
Constitution. The Oath of supporting and defending that document is
meaningless to most of them. If you happen to have a good one, he
is exempt from the "scorched earth policy" that you are about
to implement.
3. Once you have ten team members who are willing to repeat this
process, you have an obligation to them to keep them informed of who the
best and worst candidates are. (However, "the lesser of two
weevils" no longer gets our votes! Instead, if "the
lesser of two weevils" is an incumbent, we vote for his opponent in
Phase I of this war.
Your team
also has an obligation to you. (A) To inform you of the character
of the individuals who are running, when they know; and (B) to Get Out
The Vote at election time. They simply must turn out ten voters to
the polls, and then push their ten to get their own ten voters to the
polls. This is the push that overturn tyrants and places fresh
crooks in office. (Phase I) We're not naive. Taking a
mean bull to the auction barn, and introducing another, unknown younger
bull, is not likely to improve the quality of your herd. But when
the old bull loses seniority, and the incumbent party loses a post they
thought was secure, you have dealt an axe blow to the root of party
politics in your district! Enough of those epiphanies, and one of
those parties (if not both) is going to realize that only the candidates
who vote in line with the Constitution are not getting knocked off after
one term! At that point, they will begin to see the Light, and
become cheerleaders for the Constitution. And not until
then.
Your
first-level Team of Voters should not take more than one week to recruit,
assemble, and educate. Ten phone calls, and if they want to be a
part of your "underground political party", they will jump at
the chance to come to your house for barbecue (or lobsters, if you live
in Maine), and see who else is intrigued by this concept.
At your
first meeting, you announce a second meeting in one week, to find out how
much they have done. That will be more of a business meeting,
dealing with numbers. You can easily get ten people in one week to
do this, and I know, because I have done it. And if you can do it,
then they can do it. "So... one week from tonight, Ladies and
Gentlemen, we meet back here. I don't need their names -- I don't
want their names. But I do want you rock-solid numbers. And I
do want your back-up, your second-in-command, in case you are out of town
when we need to get some action around here." After that, you
meet monthly, and so does each of your organizers, with their own
teams. (Some of your team will like to use military ranks.
That works nicely. An organizer of ten households should be
installed, in front of the whole group, as a Sergeant. When a
Sergeant over a team of ten has a member who develops his own team of
ten, then he may inform you, and you may promote your Sgt. to a
Lieutenant, and the new organizer to Sgt. This hierarchy is
understood immediately by all veterans.)
PHASE II - Build strength
You
move to Phase II after effectively organizing a large number of voters in
your county who are committed to "re-elect nobody" and to throw
those rascals out. Up to now, you and your ten friends have been
simply voting for challengers over incumbents, because that's about all
you could do. (The occasional Independent or third-party candidate
should be the recipient of the full weight of your personal party
machine.)
At this
point, you begin recruiting your own candidates to run as Independents
who can expect 1,000 votes just for running. That's because you
have a machine -- 1,000 voters who understand what they are doing.
("Un-electing sycophants and idiots.") They began by
freeing themselves from the ONE-party system that traditionally plays
"good cop vs. bad cop" with them and scares them in to voting
for the incumbent, on the argument that the challenger will be
worse. No, he will not. Now they are beginning to see the
impact of kicking incumbents out of office, and they start feeling their
muscles.
Independent Candidates may not win, but they also may win, so you want to
choose men (we hope) who are competent to SERVE in this elected office of
trust. What do they serve? Merely "the People", and
that by supporting and defending the Constitution. The Independent
who gathers 1,000 votes in most county elections is going to have a
distinct pleasure in watching the incumbent lose by fewer than 1,000
votes. That is such a good feeling. Yes, you will may well
elect a rattlesnake, in the beginning. But next election, you'll
un-elect him, and hopefully either win or elect a water moccasin to take
his place. They cannot stand this pace forever.
This means
that YOUR OWN CANDIDATES must sign a pledge to always vote YEA on matters
that are consistent with the Constitutional powers of their office, and
NAY to those which are not. This takes education, and one or more
of these principles should be taught and ingrained at each monthly
meeting. These powers are different if they are in the State
Legislature than if they are forced into the bondage of serving in
Washington, DC. They need to understand those powers going
in.
Getting their attention:
In the
meantime, you invite your local state rep or independent candidate or
challenger over for coffee or out to a dinner, along with your ten
friends. Tell him just that -- "I have a few friends who want
to talk to you about your campaign." Set it up at a local
restaurant. Then ask your ten friends to bring their ten
friends. This is the first surprise.
At that
dinner, have your MC stand up and introduce your candidate(s), and then
tell them, "We did not ask you here to give us a speech. We've
all heard enough speeches and lies from politicians to last us a
lifetime. We want to speak to you. If you are elected, you
will be required to take an oath to support and defend the Constitution
of the United States. We are going to put you on notice that, if
you cast votes that are not based upon the Constitutional authority, then
we will be sitting here at the next election talking to your
opponent. That means you need to read, and understand, what the
Constitution says. (Give them their copy.) Etc.
All they
have to do is say, "I do," or "I don't." And
they'll know that we'll be watching.
PHASE III - Taking the Hill
At
some point, you are going to gather enough numbers that (a) you will have
a large pool from which to select your own high-quality candidates, and
(b) enough votes to threaten to elect them. That's when the fun
begins. More on that later.
"Spirit of
'76 - Re-elect NOBODY!"
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