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I'm sick of beurocracy. My platform and slogan is going to be "Let's get s**t done."

Unfortunately, I am 20. I will run when I am 25, which will also be illegal, but I will use that to empower me. We would really sit here for another 10 years so these dumb ******** in suits can sit on their asses covering themselves in red tape while nothing gets done, for the sake of some beurocratic law? Come on people, let's get s**t done.

I will campaign with fliers and posters I make myself (I am an artist and have a slight backing in graphic design) with large-scale images that is dominated on the top with block text that says "WE HAVE PROBLEMS ********", with the words stacked vertically, and then there will be a smaller-cased explanation of a major problem I see in the world- Such as the adoption system, animal abuse, warmongering and the pay gap.

I will speak plainly, I will get angry, I will curse and I will wear street clothes- Not because I'm calculating how to win an audience, but because that what I wear- I am one of the people. We should vote for ourselves, not people born into another league. The media will hate me.

I don't think I'll magically turn us communist overnight. I think I'll make people angry and make people want to drop the capitalist system. I know the president is a figurehead, but it's better than nothing- It's better than yelling at people on the subway through a microphone.

No need for hostility Syn. However you do make a point. Divine wont be elected or even supported for the mere fact that he will not garner financial support. Even if he was he would merely be recruited into care taking of the capitalist state. Socialism was never achieve through peaceful means and it never will be.

You state that:


How correct you are. The problem is as Ferguson States in his Investment Theory of Party Competition (I posted it for you to read it) that The high costs of political participation for average voters leads to the buying of elections by businesses. This is done through contributions, as well as direct and indirect influence from corporations, law firms and the commercial media. The theory argues that in the absence of an organized populace and labor movement, power passes by default to blocs of investors, and thus, the candidate with the most financial backing always wins.

The key word is labor movement. Do you think that you, while trying to run for a bourgeoisie controlled government executive position, will be able to create so much support, even without financial backing, to cause people to disregard the media even though you which will not be on your side, and you hope to do this only through your. Do you really believe that you can cause people to ignore all other forms of information and listen to you alone even though they have been exposed to bourgeois media control and look to it for most of their information.

Okay see, Divine this is why I cant let this pass. because people like our friend here are led to believe reformism actually ******** works.

Again, I don't think it will do everything overnight. I want to actually TRY and get important things done- I want to stop focusing on the economy bullshit and work on effective laws- Legalizing marijuana, working to end terrorism in a way that isn't "We'll bomb the s**t out of you so you're all dead" or "We'll bomb the s**t out of your enemies so you like us" working to increase worker's rights, reforming the adoption situation.

you're not following. I will get people angry, and get people thinking. I will get them to not want to be slaves anymore- The problem is that many people are content with the system because they are taught from birth that it is the best and only way, to have a ruling class controling the world.

Your friend is exactly what I mean. If I get a voice that reaches across the country and the world, then I can start to change minds. I will work, within the legal confines of the system, to slowly take power from the rich and give it to the poor. And then, we can change over to communism, when people start to see that it is the right way to go. What we need is a voice. What we need is action and change. Real change, not Obama half-hearted change.

We need people who like capitalism to see that there are better ways. And not by going around assassinating the rich, we need to do it through demonstration- Actual demonstration, inb4 "protestin is no good lawl"

The workers, as I'm sure you know, are like columns holding up the ruling class. We far outnumber the working class, but they hold us put with their weight. So, what we need to do, instead of trying to push them up and off of us, is to simply step aside- If enough columns leave, the whole thing collapses. No blood spilled, we simply remove the weight on our shoulder by not supporting them anymore. We will not work in their factories, we will not accept their pay, we will not buy from their stores- Their money will be kindling. Once they have no power, we can reclaim the means of production and begin to work again, as equals.

We must win the hearts and minds of the people in order to successfully convert to Communism.

You with your slippery slopes... I'll begin by saying that I don't think that the world will be instantly spontaneously changed- I've said that at least three times already, and now I'm saying it again. Posters, speeches, talks, maybe even a bit of vandalism and rioting. It's not ABOUT becoming president for the power, it's about the act of defiance in doing it- Saying "You know what, a layperson can be president too" and "You know what- ******** this beurocratic bullshit." If we can get to this stage, then we've opened eyes. If eyes are opened, then they can better see our message.

And yes. Exactly. That's the point- It is valueless. It would be like getting the entire country to put down Homer Simpson or Rage Against The Machine on the ballots, but I am tangible and can speak and help unify the people. I don't WANT power, I don't WANT to control or lead. I want to do my part to make this world less ******** up. I never said I would quit speaking or being a figurehead, but I will not be an authority, and I will not take part in petty beurocracy and ceremony. We have more important things to do.

Oh, come on. Really? We have to convert our economic system, doofus. I didn't mean baptising folks into Communism. Christ. I didn't say that- You're really bad with slippery slopes, you know that?- I never pointed fingers or said "you do this and are wrong because of it"- I said that those who do so are wrong and cited why.