Quote: (02-04-2017 08:17 AM)shameus_oreaaly Wrote:
I see numerous things to be concerned about in the UK, especially London; one-sided hate speech laws, pro-Islamic policy, trans madness, selective enforcement of laws, vitriol against Leave voters and anyone centre-right. There's plenty of criticism and push-back against the goverment and agitators if you look online, but what can go on in reality to take a stance against this?
I make political jokes to keep my sanity, but that's about it. How could I take a stand against this, join UKIP, write for the Telegraph?
You can run on the ticket of a third party that has a principled platform but no chance of winning. The goal, in that case, is to get free publicity for your ideas and get to the right (or the left) of the mainstream candidates, and give them reason to worry that their moderate stances will make them lose votes to you. They may copy some of your ideas or at least feel compelled to respond to them (rather than totally ignoring them).
I'm running for state legislator now, and finding that it's easier than I expected. Depending on your jurisdiction, the requirements for getting on the ballot might not be so challenging. I live in a mostly rural district, so I've been going door-to-door in the more densely-populated, suburban, yuppie areas on the edge of the district and gathering signatures on my ballot access petitions there. On the weekends, I can gather about 10 signatures an hour just by smiling and saying, "Hi, I'm [name] and I'm running for [office] as a [party affiliation]. I'm gathering signatures for ballot access so that you can have another choice in November. Signing doesn't mean you're going to vote for me; it's just to allow me to run." Most people will sign if they've answered the door and given you a chance to say that much.
When I first started, I thought, "I don't want to do this, because I'm not an extroverted person and don't like accosting strangers." But the system is set up so that sometimes we, as political outsiders, have no way to make our voices heard without accosting strangers. So if someone occasionally gets a shitty attitude with me, my thought is, "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
My advice is, go for the highest office you can get on the ballot for, so you can get the most bang for your buck. I ran for U.S. Congress several years ago, and got free TV and newspaper coverage, plus I was in the debates. For those who live in the U.S., now is a good time to start gathering ballot access signatures, because it's still early in the year, so the deadlines are in many cases still months away. You want to start as early as possible so that a snafu doesn't cause you to fall short of the number of signatures you need.
Remember, rejections don't count; only signatures count. Petitioning, like getting laid, is a numbers game. It's the
Giovanny principle: "If I talk to 100 19 year old girls, at least one (maybe 2 or 3) of them is getting fucked!" If, as a ballot access petitioner, you use the right approach, pick the right location, and put in the necessary hours, you WILL get on the ballot.
My campaign is going to be focused on the issue of family. I'm going to turn all the feminist talking points on their heads, and say that we need to start cracking down on the women who are falsely accusing their husbands of abuse and breaking up their families. The family law statutes need to be revised to punish these selfish women (or, as I will call them in my non-sexist, politically correct vernacular, "these disloyal spouses") with loss of marital property, alimony, and custody of their kids, so that other women (ahem, "other spouses") will be deterred by their example from betraying their husbands and causing so much misery for their children, who often end up becoming burdens to society as criminals and sluts.
There's a lot more to my platform, but you get the gist. Every time the feminists say that we need to enact their policies in order to protect women and children, I'm going to find a way to turn it around and show that they are the ones putting women and children at risk. Their unfair divorce laws are making life hard for the good women who want a decent man but can't get one to commit to them, because any game-aware and self-respecting man will realize that marriage, in its modern incarnation, has become little more than the ultimate failed shit test, the ultimate loss of frame, in which he agrees to take on risk without enough (if any) reward to compensate for it, out of a misguided belief that a woman will appreciate his sacrifice and integrity. No-fault divorce and our culture's encouraging women to delay marriage till after college (and men to choose women their own age) has ruined what used to be a pretty sweet gig for women, in that they could get married at 18 and then sit around the house all day raising babies.
We need to shift resources away from wasteful programs like the pork barrel projects funded under the Violence Against Women Act, so that more resources will be available to investigate and prosecute women who perjure themselves by making false accusations of abuse in the family courts.
We need to cut funding for higher education for women, since it just encourages girls to go to college, where they become sexually promiscuous and are diverted from their proper role of becoming faithful wives and mothers. We must eradicate the feminist cancer from our society by targeting its source, the university.
The newspapers pretty much have to cover the campaign, because the possibility of drawing away enough votes to tip the election from one mainstream candidate to the other is always there, even if I have no chance of winning. The more unusual and outrageous my ideas are, the more likely they'll get covered, because that's what creates those clickbait headlines and social media shares that news companies love.