Succeeding where others have failed

Opportunities for major reform are rare. It requires near-catastrophic events to upset the propaganda machine and create the opportunity. The last such opportunity was Occupy Wall Street.

The 2008 stock market crash devastated billions of people. President Obama opted to bail out the bankers while people lost their homes. Occupy Wall Street soon formed to protest Wall Street's recklessness and demand accountability. Within days, Occupy Wall Street turned from a broad-based movement about financial reform to a complete mess filled with grifters and fringe social causes. The public soon abandoned their cause; Our once in a lifetime opportunity wasted. The TEA party formed from its ashes much to the detriment of our democratic stability.

Here are things that contributed to its failure.

• Lack of clear objectives
• No actionable proposals
• Lack of accountability
• Violence

We have another opportunity right now. Hopefully we can learn from the mistakes of our predecessors.

Our political opponents are strong but they have a fundamental weakness.

A protester standing on a corner holding a sign is authentic. That individual spent an hour of their personal time to stand in the weather and communicate their message to you. It wasn't some paid advertisement through a marketing agency or a talking head. This authenticity establishes integrity that paid media messages can never achieve.

Congressional approval ratings are around 20 percent. Executive approval is 40 percent and dropping. People are ready for change and neither party is going to deliver it.

People are sick of the hate, violence, and rhetoric. People are sick of being lied to by their representatives and news sources. I believe that a message of peace and a plan for meaningful legislation would be welcomed by others.

I want others to find our site easily and our protest signs should attract attention. I hope that when others read this site that they find this idea as exciting as I do. Viral marketing through word of mouth. We can achieve what corporate advertisers can only dream. It's much easier to spread a legitimately good message than it is to polish a turd.

The No Kings protests have done a great job so far about getting their message out peacefully and I'm very relieved at that. My concern is lack of a plan for fundamental change. The GOP and DNC will continue to destabilize our nation until we dethrone them. I believe that their message ultimately fails. It's very clearly funded by the DNC money machine and I want nothing to do with it.

I made the decision for myself to carry the message. Now we just hope for millions of other people to come to the same conclusions and pick up a sign themselves.