Hands down, Mr. Scheer he is overwhelmingly correct when he says the media needs to air the grievances of the people. The “common”, “hits everyone the same”, type of basic outrage the people are experiencing.

Where is it..? I challenge you (the commentators), show me where it is? If you don’t hear me…, if you don’t make certain I am counted, how will I(the everyman) be heard? If I am not heard, why would anything change? The everyman is where the power lies.

Pundits/commentators don’t matter…they don’t move people…what they do with what they have does….and you can’t get that out of your head…you have to go to the people…then use your head and be that voice.

(it seems to me that journalists at times get caught up in themselves and forget what the real measure of their value is…..the real measure is priceless….it also appears that somehow you’ve all been trained to talk for and to us, instead of learning how to listen….you’re not here to solve the problem….you’re here to air it.)

People move people. Move the people, move the country, move the country, move the politics.

It must be political parties that are in need of new direction?  How about the newspaper TV, radio and news industry where Matt Miller works?  Anyone happy with their performance in the last 50 years?  This news industry has been a cheer leader for unless wars, given the politicians cover for just about everything except sex scandals, and refused to ask questions for fear of upsetting politicians.  There is Fox phone tapping, lies, distortions and omissions, hiring oblivious nut cases to put out the news, and being run by an Australian immigrant that never took a citizenship test.  The rest of the networks are just subtle versions of Fox.  If the news industry where Matt Miller works did anything resembling their jobs we would have a lot fewer of the problems Matt likes to gripe about.

How about an R + D Party, with Kucinich for Pres. and Ron Paul for VP, or vice versa.  Throw out the entire House of Representatives and replace them with
equal number of female and male members of National OWS.  Recess the Supremes for five years, with pay. Free more than half those in prison, beginning with those sentenced for possession of drugs, and minor offenses. Rehabilitate the rest. Eliminate all torture and the death penalty.  Start Over. Cancel all defense contracts. Free all armed forces members, destroy all atomic weapons and drones, convert all military planes and ships to civilian and commercial transportation. Educate everybody. Put WikiLeaks in charge of public information.  etc. etc. Start the New Year Right!

Of course we need a third party, perhaps even a fourth or a fifth. The two parties we now have are locked in a battle between themselves, a battle for corporate funds and one that leaves we the people out in the cold.

The nation that has, for example, the best health care for its citizens is France. That nation also has a plethora of political parties vying for “market share” in its governance. With several parties involved in writing legislation etc. one avoids what we have now, a dysfunctional government with one party saying no to everything and the other having no clue about anything. Even if we didn’t have a President verging on incompetence , which we certainly do, there are not enough interests being supported to get anything done.

This bunch spent half an hour discussing the idea of a third party as a corrective to the takeover of our government by moneyed interests.  It was a start.  Not a moment was spent addressing the increasing irrelevance of our Bill of Rights as a reason to look to a third party.  No mention was made of present-day third parties and their candidates, such as the Justice Party and Rocky Anderson.