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    Saturday, July 29, 2006

    Real Campaign Reform and True Democracy

    LPA: If you are a blogger, or a student, or someone who just wants to get a message out that you believe is really important, where would you go to do this? If you had a fantastic way to change the way that we do business politically in the United States, and it would mean, if your idea was ever adopted, or even heard, that once again we could bring politics, and elections down to a individual choice instead of corporate and PAC influence that renders our individual vote meaningless, if you could do this, would you consider it a good thing?

    If you could take votes that affect the way we do business, away from the business lobbyists, and the way that we market drugs, away from the pharmaceutical lobbyists, and the way that we fuel our homes and automobiles, away from the oil lobbyists, would you consider that a good thing? If everyone in the country had access to good medical care would you consider that a good thing?

    If you said no to all of the questions that I asked above, then just stop reading right here, because obviously you are a politician, a lobbyist, a major political party official, employed by the oil companies, or a medical insurer, or you are just a misanthrope that hates his fellow man, and loves to watch the reality shows on TV where the person who does the dirtiest, nastiest things to the other contestants wins.

    The Liberal Party of America was founded in order to be able to bring a fresh, new way of looking at things to the people of this country. I have found, that the people that are the hardest to talk to, are the very people that call themselves liberal. I have also found, that if you are not affiliated with either the Republican Party, or the Democrats, that it is almost impossible to get your point of view heard anywhere on the Internet. I think that the Liberal Party of America has made some inroads, but we have yet to be represented by a link to any liberal or progressive blog on the blogosphere because we are not a mouthpiece for The Democratic Party. We have no rich, well connected friends, and we don’t give money to anyone to say anything nice about us.

    The reason that I am telling you this is because you read the liberal blogs and keep up with the latest progressive trends, all you are really hearing is the same old trash that everyone else is talking about, but in a new package, sometimes with a few swear words thrown in to make it seem that you are reading a real “radical,” “cool,” and “cutting edge” blog that gives you the real lowdown on things. Well, you are not. All you are reading is the same Democratic crap with a liberal title on it. The Democrats have no more interest in changing the “Status Quo” than George W. Bush and Dick Cheney want you to believe we have a threat like Global Warming to worry about. Nobody in American politics, especially the people that belong to the two major political parties, wants to upset the proverbial apple cart.

    If the Liberal Party of America could outline a plan that would give this country campaign reform that would really reform the way campaigns are being run, and the way politicians are bought and sold like the talking heads that they are, and have it in such language that anyone with a high school education could understand it, wouldn’t you support it? Our plan makes it impossible for any wealthy family, corporation, or movement to influence the winners. At the same time this would guarantee fair and transparent elections, would you be interested? I believe that you would. Think of a country that uses all the resources at its disposal to help its citizens and those people that are less fortunate in the world.
    The Liberal Party of America is going to unveil a Campaign Reform proposal like no other: the corporations, and the major political parties, and the richest families in the world will do everything in their power to stop our proposal from seeing daylight. Don’t believe me, you don’t even have to trust me, just read the proposal that we are going to present to Congress AND to the American people. We must present this directly to you, for if we do not, the politicians will kill it. I can assure you of that fact. Please check in from time to time. We will try our best to make this proposal as public as we can, but we will be lucky to get it off of our own web site. Please stay tuned.