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I saw your comment to Marian, and yes, we really should be able to call an election and have a vote of "no confidence," but of course with the computers tallying 80% of U.S. votes, it would say that we lost.
That makes not voting our only workable option for demonstrating our disapproval and withdrawing our consent.
The immediate goal we have in mind is to attempt to get enough people to understand the problem so that there will be a lower voter turnout in November than there was in the primaries. That would send a clear message to Washington DC and to the world that we are not pleased with a government that ignores us, exempts itself from world laws, and spends all our money and puts our children and grandchildren in debt to pay for wars we don't want.
In the process of reaching our primary goal, I hope we will go a long way towards our ultimate goal of citizen-owned transparent participatory democracy.
Sometimes we get impatient. When somebody tries for a year, two years, four years, or eight years to do something, and they can't manage to do it, sometimes we just push them out of the way and do it ourselves. Especially if their incompetence is causing a lot of needless deaths and unnecessary debt. Sometimes, if the action is urgent, we have to do that even if they're the boss and we're just the worker bees.
We want to try not to be any more rude than we have to. But we simply can't afford to leave government up to incompetents any more.
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