Forum Post: Start a 99% Party
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 9, 2011, 12:43 a.m. EST by bertam
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We need to start a 99% party. This will get us serious attention from the Dems. Also, we may elect some people to the House of Representatives like the Tea party did.
Start a 99% party and get 1% of the vote. I do not say this as someone who is hostile to building an independent progressive party, just a realist. I ran for Congress on the Green Party ticket and twice for state legislature as a Green. I plan to vote for Jill Stein who will probably be the Green Party candidate for President in 1912. I've never voted for a Democrat and don't plan to.
The fact is the left in the US is very weak and poorly organized. The most optimistic estimates of Occupy activists (not mere passive supporters) put that number at about 200 K, hardly a mass movement in a nation of more than 300 million.
I believe we need a mass independent progressive party, but such an asperation is not realistic until we have maybe 10 or 20 million people occupying. Until then some occupiers will vote Democratic, some like me will vote for some tiny sectlet or groupescule and some won't vote at all. Whatever we do will be a mere existential choice and not politically consequential until we become a real mass movement.
In the meantime our job is to organized more occupations and more GAs.
Have you read the 99% Declaration. It says in closing:
https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/
Now that's even better than protesting. But will people back a 99% Party?
Have you read the 99% Declaration? The worse things get the more people will look for a viable alternative. People were disgusted enough 20 years ago to back Ross Perot and things aren't looking so rosy now...
https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/
this is a social movement, not some dumb ass political party
political parties have the power to bring change. that is what social movement wants. the problem is can people back a 99% Party against career politicians?
you should be ashamed of yourself
I don't see a reason why but you sound like a troll so I won't pay any more attention.
i'm a troll but i'm pretty respectful and loving. i can be fun for you if you just swallow your pride
thats easy for you because you are such well-practiced swallower already