{"id":56,"date":"2012-02-19T23:46:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T05:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/independentconservativevoters.com\/icv\/?p=56"},"modified":"2012-02-21T23:46:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T05:46:50","slug":"start-your-own-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/independentconservativevoters.com\/icv\/2012\/02\/start-your-own-political-party.html","title":{"rendered":"Start Your Own Political Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sick and tired of politics as usual?\u00a0 Tired of being played for a sucker by both the big parties?\u00a0 Here’s an idea:\u00a0 Start your own Party!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you sometimes feel like you’re in the middle of a stampede of Elephants and Donkeys who are managed by powerful interests and who don’t listen to you and your views?\u00a0 The answer is SECESSION!<\/p>\n

I’m serious.\u00a0 Secede from the big parties and start your own.\u00a0 Right now, you have one vote, but within a couple of hours you can have ten votes by just asking a few friends to join you.\u00a0 Ten votes – not enough to swing very many elections, but when ten people agree that they are going to vote for a few good candidates (or against a few very bad ones), and that you are going to vote without regard to party<\/span>, you place a small roadblock in the path of the big parties.<\/p>\n

These first ten are your own personal team.<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s invite each one of them to repeat the process.\u00a0 And let\u2019s say that five of them do it.\u00a0 Those five are promoted to the First Tier of Team Captains.\u00a0 You now have their 50 voters plus your personal team of ten, so you are looking at 60 votes in the next election.\u00a0 In a couple of weeks you can probably find another five from among their fifty who will repeat the process, giving you a maximum of 100 voters who are just like you \u2014 sick and tired of being taken for granted by the big parties.<\/p>\n

You now have what we\u2019ll call a Maverick Party \u2014 you call it anything you like.\u00a0 A hundred votes will get the attention of any candidate for any office.\u00a0 They will travel to you to speak to you and your team \u2014 if you convince them that you can deliver 100 votes.<\/p>\n

Host a meeting in a restaurant, where your team of ten, plus any they want to invite to hear more, can all have their say about ways to build the party and support a select team of candidates.\u00a0 (Some of them might even want to run for office.\u00a0 In time, we want to cultivate that.)\u00a0 At this meeting, you listen to people talk about the candidates you will all agree to vote for, based upon your values.\u00a0 You discuss the seriousness of what you\u2019re doing \u2014 it\u2019s called guerilla campaigning, and it scares the socks off the big parties, because they don\u2019t control you.<\/p>\n

At your second meeting, you are going to have to take reservations, and limit participation to 100 \u2014 where you\u2019ll do two things:\u00a0 (a) there will be an accounting of how many votes each person actually can deliver for the Maverick Slate in this election, and (b) you\u2019ll let a couple of candidates come to see if they want your support.<\/p>\n

Imagine inviting one of your favorite candidates to listen to your team complain about the world of politics, and to hearing people stand up and say, \u201cI\u2019m Bubba, and I am here tonight representing 27 voters.\u00a0 My question for you is\u20ac\u00a6 .\u201d\u00a0 Then another stands up and says, \u201cI\u2019m Jane and I represent 143 voters, and my question is\u20ac\u00a6 .\u201d\u00a0 Do you think the guy will be taking notes and doing the math?\u00a0 You betcha, he will!\u00a0 When he goes home, he will be telling his campaign staff, \u201cWhenever this group of Mavericks wants an audience with me, you give it to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

A hundred votes will have their attention, but the third level is 1,000 votes, in round numbers, and when you reach that level, even congressmen will welcome a delegation from you and your team when you call their office and ask for an appointment.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t, you\u2019ll bounce them out of office next time around.<\/p>\n

The neat thing is that this doesn\u2019t take tons of money, it doesn\u2019t take an office and a staff.\u00a0 It takes one spark plug like you, with a data base, keeping up with your small party of ten friends, their ten friends, and their ten friends.\u00a0 Your circle of influence, with three levels, is actually closer to 3,000 votes, but let\u2019s keep it conservative here.<\/p>\n

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