Occupy American needs only ONE goal: Ban the GOP

[BanTheGOP]

In the glorious rebirth of the great American protest march, we have seen the mother of all protests. While we deservedly berate the 1% of rich, republicanist capitalist murderous scum, we also are branching out into our other ills. Environmental concerns. Big Oil. The military/industrial complex. The Ku Klux Klan racists. The list goes on and on and on, so it is no wonder that protesters sometimes can't elaborate the very scope of human degradation of what they are protesting.

There is only ONE connection, and ONE enemy: The republican Party.



At the ROOT of EVERY major tyrannical situation involving economics, racism, sexism, environmentalism, and capitalism in general, is the demonic and rehensible manipulations of the 1 per-centers controlling the republican party.

Let me be perfectly clear:

The republican party is NOT a political party by ANY stretch of the imagination.

The republican party is, in fact, the most repressive, most destructive regime in the history of the planet. Pure and simple.

The republican party is what provides the financial booty, stolen from the progressive, productive workers, and funnels it toward military domination of poor, progressively minded countries.

The booty also provides law enforcement and legal representatives with the repressive tools to shield the wealth of the rich republicanist bastards from the rest of the progressive, democratically minded individuals whom comprise the vast majority of the planet.

Finally, the booty also provides the republican bastards the ability to destroy the planet through its environmentally destructive manner.

We may be occupying Wall Street. We may be occupying Main Street. It is NOW time to occupy the courts with lawsuits against the republican party.

There are those who say, "You CAN'T ban political parties! That's ... that's... that's un-American!!" And in most cases, their point is valid.

But political parties and free speech are based on the Human Trust factor we have with each other. When an entity abuses that trust through their edicts and actions that prevent the REST of us from OUR free speech, OUR productive efforts, and OUR desire to live in a planet that will not destroy itself, then it is not only our RIGHT, but our DUTY to DESTROY that which is preventing our progressive society from advancing.

Rest assured: We need to DESTROY the republican party BEFORE we can restore democracy! We have enough diversity of political discourse throughout the various political parties such as the Democratic, Green, Peace and Freedom, and the various Socialist and Communist parties. But right now, THEIR voices are being trounced upon by the rapacious radical right.

The bottom line: The republican party must be DESTROYED.

And THAT should be the MAIN FOCUS of our protests.

BAN the republican party...NOW!!

[Scuba]

1. The Republican Party is just one more tool (think Fox Noise) of the oligarchs. n/t

[DrDan]

2. so . . . the D's are innocent?

Seems to me the success of the OWS is to focus on the crimes, malfeasance and nonfeasance rather than a single political party.

[BanTheGOP]

3. The Democrats are less than 1% destructive than the GOP

While the Democrats aren't always completely on the up and up, the corporate interests are fundamentally held by republicanist repressionists. If we get rid of the GOP, we also get rid of the destructive element that permeates the Dems as well. In addition, we can advance our progressive agenda through a myriad of other parties.

The bottom line: Our side is not even worth criticizing. We need to focus on the big picture here.

[DrDan]

6. anyone on "our side" is worth criticizing if they contributed toward

this financial debacle. And you can rest assured that there are some D's complicit.

[BanTheGOP]

7. Fine. criticize them.

But make sure you criticize the THOUSANDS of repulicans whom are far worse.

[certainot]

13. one of the GOP's most effective tactics is to magnify Dem problems and rationalize and excuse much

more significant corruption on their part, and they are very effective in doing it because they control national messaging with 1000 unchallenged and coordinated radio stations that can turn a molehill into a mountain in a day.

limbaugh spend considerable time recently making excuses for clarence thomas, rationalizing, lying, distorting, and making often absurd comparisons with non-supreme court dems/liberals with much less serious conflicts of interest.

then he continues his daily swiftboating of dems, selling lies, and distorting politics, with a chorus of other RW radio talkers reading similar talking points, to a crowd of 50 mil a week that have no or few free alternatives for political talk while driving or working.

it should be clear where the problem really is.

[DrDan]

14. blinders will not cure the problem

OWS has that part right so far.

[certainot]

24. not including an effort to challenge RW radio along with OWS is a major fail.

every OWS objective is much harder because there is NO organized response to RW radio

i hope OWS continues and grows until the elections and all republicans and corporatists dems are thrown out.

but that whole effort will be distorted and resisted and many fewer politicians and citizens votes will be effected by the fact that every time OWS efforts make headway in educating public the think tanks will craft a counter PR effort that will start on radio and rely on that fact there is NO organized challenge to it.

[The Wizard]

17. Silencing Rash Limbaugh

with extreme prejudice would be a good first step. After that Murdoch.

[MilesColtrane]

4. By what legal mechanism would you ban a political party?

[BanTheGOP]

8. RICO statutes.

Existing RICO statutes allow us to crminalize financial dealings with organizations that use criminal activity to make their money. Virtually every tenet that the republican party stands for is illegal, at least in the views of many courts. Therefore, we should start to pursue legal action against the financial interests. THAT'S how we ban a criminal presence. Pure and simple.

[MilesColtrane]

11. Sending some people away for breaking campaign finance laws does not equal....

banning a political party.

[BanTheGOP]

16. Effectively, it does and we should pursue the issue

We are NOT talking about campaign finance laws. We are talking about negating the use of funds to promote activities that we should invalidate in the court, such as lower taxes for the rich, environmental degradation, racism, sexism, breaking civil rights laws willy nilly, promotion of nuclear weapons, etc. We have FAR MORE illegal activities to ban the financial arm of the GOP than we can shake a stick at. All we need are the right legal counsel teams and, preferably, progressive judges in the courtroom.

[The Wizard]

18. Bush stacked the Courts

And Republican filibusters won't allow Obama to fill empty seats.

[RZM]

5. This again? You need a different schtick, becuase this one has just about run its course n/t

[BanTheGOP]

9. Until you propose something better THAT'S EFFECTIVE...

...I'll be promoting the destruction of the GOP over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Pure and simple.

[RZM]

10. Here's one

Give it rest.

You're trying to nudge the hostility toward the right on this board in authoritarian directions.

And we both know you're no authoritarian.

[certainot]

12. the new GOP would be destroyed if the left finally challenged its most important weapon

instead of completely ignoring it- 1000 think tank-coordinated radio stations.

they do the groundwork repetition for all the anti democracy lying the GOP does and depends on to dominate politics and media, swiftboat progressive and Dem reps, and create their alternate reality.

with protests at appropriate stations, shaming and boycotting of local sponsors until those stations can't pay overhead and have to find balance, and by pressuring pro and especially university athletics off those racist global warming-denying stations.

[Rageneau]

15. Pass out the guillotines.

[Mosaic]

19. Count me in

I'm with you. Great goal!!!

[yurbud]

20. then ban Republican policies from Democratic legislation too

[saras]

21. Personally I'd keep the Republicans and get rid of the DLC

Then the Republicans would, again, be kooks and bad examples, good reasons to not even CONSIDER right-wing solutions to social problems. There's always going to be a handful of haters, bigots, and the merely self-destructive. Why not let them have their own party, as long as they don't significantly infect the majority party?

[Charronxyz]

22. the good cop, bad cop routine...

would not work in a one party system, democrats need republicans and vice-versa they are one and the same.

[BanTheGOP]

25. We already HAVE many parties!

Once the republican party is eliminated, that would bring about the necessary democratic evolution to include SEVERAL parties, such as the Green, Peace and Freedom, the various Socialist parties, etc. This will ensure a RICH and DIVERSE political discourse that is based upon actual human need, not corporate / republicanist greet. In addition, it will allow the United States to come to global progressive standards to finally get rid of the degradation that is the republican Party.

[BlueMTexpat]

23. Ban the corporatocratic rule instead!

That's the real enemy.

[They_Live]

26. What we really need is

No PRIVATE money in our elections. And let's get rid of the Electoral College while we're at it. One Person, One Vote.

Also, a Corporation does not qualify as a person, as it can not be hanged by the neck until dead.

[Jack Rabbit]

27. Horsepucky

Yes, it's un-American and un-democratic, too. I agree that there is an awful lot of crap in the GOP. That's why I don't vote for the bastards.

Democracy is a state where:

• Citizenship is universal. Each person born within the boundaries of the state is a citizen, as is one born abroad to at least one citizen parent or who swears allegiance to the state in a rite of naturalization.
• Citizenship is equal. Each citizen has an equal opportunity to participate in and influence public affairs. Every adult citizen shall be enfranchised with the right to vote. Decisions are made by a majority voting based on the principle of one man/one vote.
• Citizenship is inalienable. A guaranteed set of civil liberties is in place to assure full and open public discourse of civic affairs. No citizen may be stripped of his citizenship or otherwise punished by the state for expressing any point of view, no matter how unpopular or even absurd.

I can't think of anything more absurd than proposing a program of light taxes on the rich and laissez faire markets after 2008, unless it was proposing a program of light taxes on the rich and laissez faire markets after 1929. That was the time for the New Deal, and this is the time another New Deal.

The problem with the Democrats is that President Obama is treating the problem as a less serious one than it is and that enough Democrats in Congress are bought to defeat his programs.

The solution is to get money out of politics. A corporate whore who has to compete on an equal footing with a candidate with the interests of the people as his core values will be defeated. That is how to sweep the GOP into the dust bin of history. I, for one, will not ban the GOP. I will not destroy democracy in order to save it.

Specific actions to propose are:

• Overturn Citizens United and end corporate personhood.
• Pass legislation mandating public financing of political campaigns, outlawing personal financing of campaigns, and obliterating the distinction between a large campaign contribution and a bribe.
• The public must punish politicians who become corporate servants after taking corporate cash, regardless of party affiliation; such politicians should be regarded as crooked. Just stop voting for these crooks.
• End the Bush tax cuts for the upper brackets.

After that, we can re-regulate the financial industry, impose stricter pollution abatement laws, begin phasing out the use of fossil fuels and pass real health care legislation. We don't need to ban anybody.

[Odin2005]

28. Unrec. Both parties are corupt and only serve corporatist masters.

Take your divide-and-conquer nonsense and shove it.

[hack89]

29. What a huge pile of steaming BS. nt

[Skittles]

30. they are sick of collaborating Dems, too