Idea: if a candidate gets funding from the PAC, can they sign an agreement that requires them to return the full funding if they betray any of the bills in any votes?
My idea was to have a Sanders-picked committee, and the committee strips an Independent alliance brand from those who betray it.
This reminds me of this Onion joke.
The challenge will be plutocrats picking off your followers with bribes (why I was hoping Sanders would lead this fight; people he picks are generally not bribeable…) Many corporations will want this baby killed in the crib; expect them to send in bad-faith sleeper candidates…
I gotta say: I am not crazy about the term “economic populism”. It doesn’t say as much as “workers rights and conditions”. A worker is someone who builds things and performs services; they contribute to a country’s wealth, and that’s WHY they need to be treated with respect.
“Populist” doesn’t convey as much. “Free money” (and we had that with the Covid stimulus, right??) is an economically populist thing; right??
It comes down to: “We helped build this!”; versus: “Hey -it’s POPULAR!” Which idea sounds more substantial and has more gravitas??
Some political consultants get weasely when using the term “worker”, fearing McCarthyite pushback as being labeled “commies”. But working is a valuable ethic in any society, and we need to relearn that.
Another source of fear about using “worker” in politics is that it was used by the Nazis. But that was a corrupt and satanic co-option, They were not pushing for work; they wanted a class of slaves (“Arbeit Macht Frei”…), just as the corporate owners of the Duopoly Party system and tech bros’ want (and keep in mind: I believe strongly in tech, provided its use is wielded by those who have been educated well…)
I could see “economic populism” being easily cast as collapse-of-empire bread and circuses. I know that would be unfair, but I can assure you that attack will be made.
“Rights and conditions for workers” is much harder to assault by the corporations. So much so, they themselves had to attempt to co-opt the “worker” term with the BS-labeled “Right To Work” legislative attempts,
