Starting in the last half of the 20th century, Americans have become ever more cynical and apathetic in their attitude toward election politics. 50% of us, fully one half , of Americans don’t vote. And to make things worse, those who do vote, continue to blindly reelect Congress at a 95% reelection rate, regardless of the corruption, bad fiscal policies, and awful laws which are enacted.

All is not lost however. It is possible to use this huge army of disgruntled non-voters to rejuvenate our Congress and our country. All we have to do is convince them of a winning issue they would very much want to vote on.

There are at least three aspects of this situation, which “we the people” can and should exploit:

First, ‘we the people’ still have the vote , let’s use it;
Second, fifty percent of us are turned off, and don’t vote, which amounts to a powerful constituency;
Third, this non-voting 50%, all by themselves, acting together, could throw ALL the bums out!

In any given Congressional election, if all the usual non-voters voted, and only for challengers, the challengers would sweep the field.

The very powerful motivator in those three points is that a great many of those people who don’t vote are people who hate the professional politicians and the system, and, if and when they did vote, would vote almost unanimously for such things as Term Limits, Balanced Budgets, No Earmarks, etc, etc.

Therefore, we must wake up that sleeping giant called ‘non-voters’, and get THEM to realize that
they and they alone have the power to make an earthshaking difference in American political history.

Simply by voting a solid NEVER REELECT ticket, regardless of party, they would cause a revolution rivalling 1776.

An interesting and attractive feature of this strategy is that it makes no difference which party, or which issue, or which candidate, these returning non-voters voted for, so long as they actually voted, and only for challengers, NOT for any ANY INCUMBENT. In effect, they would be creating a “voter-imposed term limit”, on a one-term Congress.

If enough of those 50% non-voters got this message and decided to vote, even if “regular” voters didn’t change their bad “reelection” voting habits, there would be a flood of rejected long-termers out of the Congress. America would be changed immediately and forever. Never again would professional politicians ignore voters in favor of reelection by the special interests. And we might finally get some constitutional amendment proposals, such as for term limits and balanced budgets.

In fact, that might spell the beginning of the end of career politicians in Congress.

However...the missing ingredient for such a strategy of course is the advertising money that would be required to reach and arouse those ‘non-voters’. Since most ‘non-voters’ probably don’t even listen to the “main stream media”, it will take special efforts to even get in touch with them.

If any of you who see or hear this message know of any ‘deep-pocket’ individuals or organizations who might be interested in trying this particular tactic of rousing that huge group of non-voters to come out at least once or twice to show that it will work to “throw the bums out”, please bring this idea to their attention.

I’m Nelson Lee Walker of tenurecorrupts.com