Resolved: the time is now

By Olaf Childress
firstfreedom@gulftel.com

As editor of The First Freedom, I have privately begged third party presidential candidates to consider a shared victory: one chance of displacing the Establishment combine.

Others talk of uniting enough of these third parties – effectively excluded by the hoodlums in charge – to actually defeat that hegemony camped in the Oval Office for a century. But where is there a realistic plan of action? Read on.

Such a victory requires your willingness to listen, badger these third parties, share proposals, negotiate, and, yes, compromise a little. You knew as much. If not, then the fact of having been compromised at every "election" has also gone unnoticed. What you haven’t realized is that a well-planned blitzkrieg can take the two war parties and non-participating candidates by surprise.

Knowing how delicate any compromise could be if leaked prematurely, I have not expected immediate and direct responses from the leading third party candidates for President and Vice President, my missives concerning only that pair of offices; but rather that their deputies would persuade each interested party’s directorate to assign some low profile personage for the purpose of further communication regarding the ends proposed. Should that proxy discover insufficient interest among the rival third parties for such a fusion, they would hear nothing more from this sounding board. But, for one brief and possibly decisive moment, let us unite and be prepared to demonstrate what can be done. If not now, then at least lay the groundwork for turning things around at some future time. After studying the following tentative precepts, you’ll allow that a delegate should respond in strict confidence stating his party’s likely objections, desires and reservations.

Thus we initially determine a mutually agreeable referee and convention schedule. By referee is meant a polling agency or method of averaging among more than one poll to confirm how many registered voters nationwide on a date certain intend to vote for each of the participants. A convention immediately following might then even overwhelm the existing two-party system with its newsworthiness, whether or not the liberal media attempt to downplay such a glorified press conference, in which case the internet takes up that slack.

All participants having sought the two highest national offices would, at the said convention, throw their weight behind the most favored participating candidates for President and Vice President as proven by that previously agreed-upon poll. Though we may not consider (the first time around) any lesser elective offices, one might hope that many other third party candidates for elective offices within the several states would follow suit and work toward similar strategies for breaking up the existing two-party deadlock at every level. Such a fusion aimed only at putting a third party candidate into the White House, would in no way affect the lesser elective offices sought by third party candidates.

Stage 1 – Introduction: the parties agree to consider this plan.

Stage 2 – Negotiation: the parties send delegates committed no less to secrecy than the Establishment’s own Bilderberg and CFR organizations, meeting at various times and locations. (No real harm is done, however, when rumors of a new paradigm emerge prematurely.) The said delegates fix upon a certain referee or polling method and convention schedule. They agree on how to rank the national administration’s appointive offices, assigning each a value; for instance, 0.15% to Director of Widget Standards and 14.16% to the Secretary of State, for a total of 100%.

Stage 3 – Results of poll: suppose that, among three participating third parties, Party A’s candidates for President and V.P. take 30% of the non-Republocrat vote as tabulated by the agreed-upon method, Party B coming in with 25%, Party C at 20% and non-participating third parties get the balance of 25%. In this example, 75% of all third-party votes count for 100% of the shares to be distributed within a new administration, should that combine win the election.

Stage 4 - Round Robin Convention: Much more significant than the usual eyewash partying by those Demopublican and Republocrat conventions that by now are old news, here the whole plan – including agreements and disagreements among the participants – goes public. To be hashed out are all of the shares in a new national administration’s appointive offices, only the two highest elective slots having been determined. As Party A enjoys a five-point plurality over Party B (30% vs. 25%), in addition to having the other participants endorse its President/Vice President ticket, Party A names (or reserves the right to name) appointive officers corresponding in rank to that surplus. Party B in turn, so long as its shares are the surplus, proceeds to elect any one or more from among the remaining available offices until having spent that surplus. Whichever participant then has the surplus likewise elects, and so on until every appointive office has been decided. These participating third parties continue exercising the same proportionate shares of power on into an administrative congress to which they have pledged, if their combo of candidates for President and Vice President is elected, to pay heed throughout the entire new administration. In other words, "third party" membership strengths in an administrative congress would remain, its votes from time to time advising the nation’s Chief Executive upon a sane course.

Step 5 – Post-election: Victory, and the return of constitutional government! This administrative congress will be squabbling behind doors, negotiating and swapping options even while backing the President-elect and Vice President-elect publicly, yet sticking with the policies that have been worked out under this fresh paradigm and strenuous novel arrangement. Of course it would be challenged in the courts. That’s politics. Nothing succeeds like success. The main thing is to restore constitutional government in defiance of this despicable corporate/media/government complex.

If that sounds farfetched, it’s better than the alternative: following each "election," another four years of grasping, increasing tyranny. Have you got any better ideas?

Rome didn’t fall under imperial decay in one day, nor can our return to republican government with a small "r" proceed until we resolve that the time to move is now. We shall change things by exercising greater imagination than resides inside the fortress of those bloodsuckers presently in power, and do it with lightning war!