ONE AMERICA, NOT THREE

New Update written on JUNE 25, 2017: Don't take me wrong reading the previous update. Demonstrations, protest marches etc ARE useful, even necessary. But not by themselves. People who organize them and participate in them must be well prepared, must have solid backing and a good plan. Otherwise it can only be a slaughterhouse. Think about it. Get involved and get informed. How many people have already been victimized and suffered or will have suffered or will have paid with their lives the way anti Vietnam war demonstrators and Occupy Wall Street activists did. My book "Sheep for the Slaughter" which will be published on or before July 15 helps understand lots of aspects of the NECESSITY of the 3rd PARTY which is discussed in this article. The book costs $ 14. Pay via: PayPal.Me/BozenaSawa.

UPDATE: NOVEMBER 9. We already know : Donald Trump is our next president and that's a big change. But some things never change ! One of these things is America's desperate need of the 3rd STRONG party. A PARTNER of the existing two. Let's start building it. Or them; 4 strong parties would not be too many. Unless and until we have at least one -we'll win nothing for ourselves from President Trump Aministration and we may forever lose a chance to lead America. WE, the Willing, brave, wise and good. WE, the continuously being destroyed middle class and blue collar workers. WE, the soil of Earth. WE, called by the world puppet Masters and for a good reason: slaves and puppets or "people from the wrong side of the tracks". WE CAN WIN but ONLY, ONLY, ONLY from the position of Strength. There IS Strength in Numbers.

Update: October 26, 2016. Things have changed so much since the spring and summer when I enthusiastically promoted Sanders here. Because...THINGS CHANGE. But the key issue: the urgent need to enrich America with the 3rd STRONG PARTY has not changed and will not change until such a party is created. It is always better to be first than best. It will be counterproductive to wait. So, with the grim MATH of the American reality--for many uncovered by Sanders--let us focus and vote for the strongest and best 3rd party candidate --JILL STEIN. Let's us make THE GREENS OUR--UNDERDOGS--POWERHOUSE, STRONG in NUMBERS, able to challenge Republicans and Democrats. If not by winning presidency this year then by entering Senate & Congress.

Let us build this party with the Greens on the existing foundation built by the Greens. Let's call our party "PROGRESSIVE GREENS".

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 The text "There is Strength in Numbers" (scroll down) was initially published at the beginning of 2012 on my website-blog "One America" ( now inactive) . Then on May 9, 2014 I presented it on LinkedIn.....

  By now--the spring of 2016--nothing has changed at the party level. The 3rd party is needed in the U.S. as much as ever ! 

 To remind All of that, I am republishing this article here from my file, adding the link to my book on Amazon. I do not have the original picture on hand (which was a huge American flag on the Federal Stock Exchange building on Wall Street). But I am sure you will agree that a picture of JFK , when you talk about a better America, can never be wrong !

May 9, 2014 , first LinkedIn publication (A short introduction "Change" proceeds the text "There is Strength in Numbers"; a clone of the 2012 original):

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CHANGE is desperately needed in the United States. In KEY areas and Key institutions. Dramatic CHANGE in the country's political, economic and legal systems. CHANGE in distribution of wealth, taxes, free health care for all , social benefits. And more.

 I would be ashamed of myself if I did not try to help bringing about those (and many others) badly needed changes. But those dramatic changes cannot be realized by one person alone. And not by 10 , 100 or 1,000 people! We need big numbers. Millions! Nader says 3 million. Maybe, if very wise, resourceful, dynamic and dedicated. I say...30 millions, if taken from the sheepish, sleeping masses.

In an effort to better introduce myself to my current and future 'LinkedIn' and other social networks' followers (=friends, co-activists), I have decided to share some of my earlier writings, including the ones I have published since 2012 on my website "One America".

Below is that website leading text published in 2012 which presents some of my important views. Most of it could be written today. Also the title speaks of what mattered then and matters now. (I expanded all the views and added many more in my eBook "The New York Poor Man Sunsets", on Amazon).

THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS

“If there is a will, there is a way”.No doubt about it. But too often the way is weak because the willing activists are dispersed and unknown to each other. And because the will is dormant (if present at all) in the so called “silent majority”. And because the will is totally…absent in the powerful “One Percenters” --the U.S. true RULERS.

For all the changes which America needs — the dormant majority must be fully awaken by those of us whose will is evident: strong and manifested daily. We, “the willing”, need each other to wake up and mobilize to action the silent majority.Silent not only because they are brainwashed, mindless sheep. Often because they do not belong to any of the two leading parties and their status quo ideas and practice. This silent majority needs at least this one extra, STRONG political party I am talking about.

Only together we can create ONE Planet –beginning at home, by sticking in ONE the three Americas of the present: the Republican, the Democratic and the Frustrated: ca 40% of the American people who never vote; 44%, and that is 94 million eligible voters DID NOT VOTE on November 6, 2012.

ThePresidential election of 2012 and the hurricane Sandy hit me with the force of lightning and made me spring into action–the launching of my website "One America" in just a few days. A firm believer in the Latin adage omnis dies facit historiam (every day makes history), I am no less certain that it does only if the day is lived–simultaneously –wisely and to the fullest. And, won’t you agree, in politics of any and every level a well lived day is always a result of a good, long range plan, skillfully executed by a –firmly in place–network of experienced and dedicated activists.

The networks we need are in place – to carry out urgent essential activities to bring about change. Among them: “Obama for America" campaign (name changed later to "Organizing for Action"), Ralph Nader’s movement and various bigger and smaller political parties incl. the ones I applaud for the loudest: the Green Party and the Justice Party. There is also the “Occupy Wall Street”– the first group which dared scream to the unknowing millions the shocking size of the chasm between the top “1%” and the… 99% “rest” of us– the American people.

The strongest network is the “Organizing for Action”. The strongest both intellectually and financially because, no doubt, “there is strength in numbers”. Therefore it seems the best choice for many causes; the way to go for many present and future activists including hundreds of thousands of Obama’s 64 million voters. This powerful network could facilitate a successful fight (unfortunately not less than a fight) to get relatively soon some visible and felt results in building One Planet and by the same token One America.

The strongest plan for One America is Ralph Nader’s. Various parts of the plan are explained in all his books. The truth “there is strength in numbers” applies here as well. And that’s because his plan for reviving America’s idealism and democracy of the 1960th and going from there is so complete! I am totally won over by the plan foundation firmly rooted in true democratic values; its quest for restoring the country’s laws of liberty and justice for all. Its emphasis that to get the job done all three Americas must cooperate in all key areas.

“The Seventeen Solutions” is Nader’s latest book which sums up his very convincing, practical plan. What stands out here is its already mentioned completeness. And inclusiveness. And the clarity and pragmatism, assuring the effectiveness of the plan practical realization. The world most famous consumer activist, named by the Atlantic ” “one of the 100 most influential figures in American history “, Nader tells you what has to be done, why, where, when and how, that is also who with and what with: from A to Z. And ….offers to lead. All we need? —Three million people willing to work hard to make the plan reality. ” The other 1%”, Nader sums up....Can he find them?

A detailed survey by “Organizing for Action” emailed to millions of Barack Obama voters was answered by the beginning of December by one million people, I learned in a phone conversation with a Campaign staffer. I was one of this million. We all were asked (besides many other questions) about our ideas of urgent changes America needs and a number of hours we would volunteer weekly for CHANGE. My response mirrors my intention: Up to 8 hours a week for activities I can fully believe in, targeted at uniting the American people now so painfully split into three parts (intended oversimplification, for now).

The three Americas can’t and won’t get closer , let alone cooperate in the current status quo environment. Primarily because of the financial chasm with all its sources and consequences. Often because huge numbers of people don’t know any better, so poorly educated and successfully brainwashed. And equally often due to their justifiable apathy and frustration stemming from their inability to find themselves in the program of any of the two governing parties. Indeed the two party system is no longer the answer for the XXI America and the world. At least one more strong party to challenge the existing two is an urgent must !!!

Working with and for the Obama Campaign I was soon disappointed. The campaign managers were hardly interested in any of my top skills they asked for in their questionnaire and knew from my tireless volunteering in 2007-8, as a writer. Soon, as many others, I got discouraged with cleaning New York beaches after hurricanes. Nevertheless I still believed the bosses would see sooner or later a tremendous, unused, creative potential of the American people, myself included. A die hard optimist, I continued to hope that all the large groups such as OFA, Nader's followers, The Green Party and The Justice Party will soon work out effective, ways of cooperation with themselves as well as other parties or their sympathizers for the common victory: ONE America.

How to make One America reality fast enough, before the last tree of the forest burns? The name of the new game is inclusion. How else could we ever leave behind the three Americas, or the persistent status quo of the two Americas, damaging whatever is left of our democracy? No sense to ask the Republicans who will not voluntarily give up their corporate welfare, their tax heavens and all the rest—the fields on which the game inclusion can’t be played. But the Democrats? Are they ready to embrace inclusion? The inclusion giving each party and their candidates equal legal rights and equal opportunities ? The inclusion which, obviously, means sharing power with a  f e w political parties, not one?

Such true inclusion equals ample free TV time for every major political election. For every major candidate. To make the TV corporate moguls oblige– an appropriate public service law must be enacted. This inclusion will not materialize until another law puts an end to the undemocratic, unjust and simply shocking fundraising practices of today–so in four years time we won’t be watching the media moguls laughing all the way to the bank to cash $2,6 billion–the price of the last presidential election!

The inclusion is impossible for as long as the middle class keeps shrinking,weakening and dropping to the rock bottom to “join forces” with already breathless and powerless, unskilled blue collar workers. Obviously, a mere notion of inclusion with the already enormous and still growing financial chasm between the 1% and the 99% is…laughable. The chasm growing with the blessing of the government of all levels where the rich are decisive majority and impoverished middle class or blue collar workers account for 4% and less !

The exclusion plays a big role in this injustice. Needless to say that the real and so urgently needed inclusion will be impossible for as long as the appalling practices of excluding even major candidates from the media coverage exists legally ! THE WORLD got a shock learning that televised presidential debates in 2000 and 2012 legally (!) excluded Ralph Nader and Jill Stein of the Green Party, respectively. Many Europeans still can't believe that such a horror was indeed allowed and never punished.

Yes, this is partially a personal website. So, of course, I am launching it also to share with you my creative accomplishments and current endeavors. But you won’t be exposed to most of them soon. There is no time to reflect on my last photo or a piece of prose, let alone the old ones because “there is no time to cry for roses when the forests are on fire”. And the forests which let us breathe, live— are on fire indeed. It melts the Earth Poles…

Let me stress: My blog “ One America ” is my primary concern. My hope is it will promote actions targeted at helping to save the world, beginning where we are– in America. The world ravished by the– oh yes, man made– climate change triggered tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, droughts, epidemics, hungers and wars must be taken care of first.

Building One America is the focus of our attention. And it is because only such America will make building One Planet possible. Let’s mobilize ourselves solely for pushing the world off its destructive path, stopping it before the cliff it is approaching now and all the other cliffs and chasms dug for it by the greedy and sociopathic section of the corporate world–our masters.

The blog is created with an intention to inspire action and not discussions. Especially not lengthy, time stealing discussions because time is running out. The world is on fire. My blog articles —at least once a week–as well as comments–whenever called for–will also be brief and action oriented and as such: educational and simply informative, telling you who, what, when, where and how (to join, contribute etc).

Always ready and willing to share my own political and social views and ideas for improving America — I intend to promote first of all the well proven–if only on some level and to some degree– ideas and actions of the commonly admired and respected American powerhouses of intellect, wisdom, ethics and activism.

So expect to find in my blog reviews and summaries of the books, book chapters, articles, programs, film documentaries of the people who make history every day. And you “the willing” please let my blog encourage you to make history not with words but with actions. Every day.

------——— That's how the article ended in 2012—————

Added on May 9, 2014 :

With the exception of the free Health Care nothing or not much has changed in the U.S. since 2012 for the better of the American majority; and even the free health care system leaves much to be desired. The dramatic situation made Ralph Nader write the book "UNSTOPPABLE" and continue to organize his progressive "One Percent" of our society, "the other One Percent" as he has always calls it. I will present Ralph Nader's ideas summarized in his book "Unstoppable" in one of my next articles.

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And NOW is March 24, 2016. I am adding the following:

 Some small things have changed. The big ones, which are major problems of America are still the same, or worse. There is still no 3rd major political party in America. One Percenters and their corporate media got richer, rule the country and brainwash the society more brutally and effectively. And the society is much weaker. Because the "Occupy Wall Street" movement was suppressed. And because sheep is.... still sheep which--many experts believe--is its unchangeable nature ....I dare hope and dream the sheep can change too.

In a large article written last year I did--as I promised-- present Ralph Nader's ideas, summarized in his book "Unstoppable". I published the article directly in my eBook "The New York Poor Man Sunsets". You and all the American voters plus the election results would greatly benefit from my eBook info. Read it. Advise others to read it. It will enlighten many, still in the dark, on HOW TO VOTE & WHY.

The only right next President --given the current presidential pool--would be to the majority of progressives, me included, Bernie Sanders ! Perfect ? Probably not, even if he is perfect himself. NOBODY can be perfect in the current political system, in the country run by the One Percenters, their corporate media, military, police , laws (including election laws), lobbies, tax shelters and tax heavens etc...But he has all it takes to give the country a fresh start: bold ideas, charisma, leadership and millions of FOLLOWERS !

To make America a good, just country, at least one more STRONG political party is needed more than ever. And good, wise, talented experienced, honest people-- also visionaries JFK is talking about-- from all walks of life in the U.S. governments of all levels ! With Sanders at the government steer wheel --the process of creating many right things --the right 3rd party included-- would be natural. He would succeed largely because of his following: millions of mostly young, determined, wise, intelligent and enthusiastic people. Ralph Nader and Noam Chomsky, are among experts who see Sanders as...CHANGE AMERICA NEEDS.

Some things never change. My political and social views have not; still mirroring those of Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, JFK and a few other American presidents as well as other Greats, possessing all key virtues at once: wisdom, justice, compassion, feeling a part and not the rulers of humanity and the American people.

And my eBook "THE NEW YORK POOR MAN SUNSETS" for sale on Amazon will enlighten any voter who needs to be enlightened and will help the enlightened ones to teach and preach NOW to convince the majority to vote for BERNIE SANDERS (October 2, 2016 update. Correction. TO VOTE FOR JILL STEIN, of course. As you know things have changed. When I posted this article I was--as most of you, I am sure--certain that sooner or later Bernie Sanders would lead the 3rd strong party we need. He chose ...his way I never approved. So now is only Jill Stein for me. Though implementing various Sanders ideas of a better America should also be our goal).

My book "The New York Poor Man Sunsets shows clearly WHY there will not be a just America without the 3rd strong party--our party. You can access the book via any link in this article:

www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/reviews-sunsets-amazon-bozena-sawa?trk=mp-reader-card

My website is: BozenaSawa.wordpress.com

 Bozena Sawa

Omnis Dies Facit Historiam