I know one guy who is not afraid of the right wings clowns. And he is running for President. That guy is me.

Nicholas Pierotti


My name is Nicholas Pierotti


I'm running as an independent candidate for President of the United States.

Wall Street criminals have ruled over this country for too long. They own both houses of Congress. They own both Political parties. Obama dangles from their puppet strings.

Isn't it time to put a man of the People back into the White House? A man who will take War dollars, and money that Congress and Obama currently funnel into Wall Street bailouts and War, and redirect that money into jobs for the Working People of America, rebuilding the infrastructure of this country, and making of our nation the Shining City on a Hill we were meant to be, instead of the slave state of the corporate multinationals.


You can read my platform at

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=274121022612448

If Facebook blocks you from seeing that page, email me, and I will send you a PDF.

Let’s take back America together. It is OUR time!

We were non-violent. That's how it worked. You can call it liberal, but it worked. And the media was there; we were lucky. There were enough people who sided with us; people who had already given in WWII, and didn't want more family members destroyed by the giant corporations. Yes, there were a lot of WWII vets who were against the war in Vietnam. Sure, Reagan turned everything into a farce, but he was given that power by a Dixiecrat who slapped a "wage-price freeze" on the poor and middle classes (meaning wages were minimum, prices inflated to double anyway). And under Reagan, the wages stayed frozen. As for this new "volunteer" army; it is a sad lot of young people who are given no other jobs, probably less volunteer than Vietnam. But the whole argument is really irrelevant, as the army moves to drones and robots. They will kill and injure without any human involvement. You got another thing wrong: liberals tucked their tails between their legs and ran during the McCarthy era; my father was terrified that he would be called up. And suddenly quieted down to blend in, but discovered that quiet non-violence really worked. People listened to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; no matter what statements, good or bad, few listened to Malcolm X, especially in the media. Yes, there were a lot of plastic hippies who blamed everybody for everything, then became stock brokers.

Pretty good piece. I might add a few points:

The influence of corporate money has penetrated Congress in a manner vastly worse than what was the norm in the 60s, to the point that the Democratic party;s populism is now largely a sham. No viable third party alternative currently exist, thus disenfranchisin g the progressives, exactly as the right wing intended.

The right wing realized that an independent news media gave the peace movement reasonably reliable information that helped focus populist anger. The right wing's solution was to buy up the media. Their success in controlling information is demonstrated by the near-total blackout of news stories covering the current occupation of Wall Street. The New York Times, to my knowledge (at least according to my Google search) hasn't said a word about it.

The 60s anti-war movement (perhaps not quite the same thing as the peace movement) was fueled by young middle class males' fear of the draft. Now we have conscription by economics. It's easy to condemn as moral failures or dupes, the people who now enlist, but economically desperate people will do desperate things.

There are two reasons for the liberal timidity described in the article above:

1) Many liberal Democrats have been bought, some through the recently-defunct Democratic Leadership Council and others by lobbyists. In other cases (and PRWatch.org has excellent pieces on this), PBS, NPR, various charities and organizations that once were left-leaning are all now being run by white, upper middle-class yuppies who have no true interest in changing anything, they just want to make a decent living and 'feel good' about themselves because they did a human interest story re a black single mother who dropped her drug habit and regained her estranged child. Their appreciation of reality comes largely through such treacly made-for-TV movie plots. They don't want to rock the boat; they want to be invited aboard the yacht for the next fundraising dinner for charity. They have few if any beliefs they would 'go to the mat' for, and never show emotion when viciously attacked by a right-winger. They are perfect Fox News liberals.

2) Our media is owned and run by the sorts of people described in the last paragraph. They are the punditocracy that chases its tail inside the Beltway and decides what news is relevant to the rest of us. Since they are invested in the status quo, they are hardly going to challenge it -- they're too afraid of losing their cushy jobs.

The Woodstock Generation went to sleep and woke up in Ronald Reagan's America. The left is in palpable denial about the dramatic rightward shift of this country's zeitgeist, notwithstanding gay rights.

If you can tune out all but local politics and find a locale that syncs with your political and social vibe--SF, NY, Portland, Seattle--and you can make a living there, you may enjoy a cognitively resonant life, and can even be "happy". But you have to ignore the bigger political picture...you can't read guys like Rockstroh or Taibbi or Filkins or Hedges.

But, if you simply have to know about and watch presidential and congressional politics, if your intellectual mojo is caught up in the macrocosm, if you can't turn away from the morphing of the people, the culture, the technology, the politics, the basic self-identity of Americans into something that would've been virtually unrecognizable a few years ago, you're in deep trouble. You're doomed to a daily existence of sanitized images, comic-book political theater for cretins, and O'Reillyized mass media bullshit that will make your head explode, unless you remain suitably tranquilized by your distractions of choice (#1, TV!)

Obama promised to take us away from all this. He lied. It turns out he was just another ringmaster, albeit a "cool" one.
Answer: San Francisco, hiking, Sausalito.

I am going to draw down opposition, but stirring as this essay is, something more needs to be said about it.
Mr. Rockstroh's positions may be progressive, but I wish he did not show the same tendency to mind-clogging invective, the lumping of whole categories of people equally as enemies, the almost murderous anger, and the avoidance of rational nuances of reality, as the very "clowns" that we oppose.
We ourselves must act warmly but keep our cool in these times. The temptation is to outdo the enemy in hate and intransigeance. We must overcome that temptation.
For those who have studied the Freench Revolution, I can make these further points. We need passion in our causes, but right now, we need Mirabeaus more than Robespierres. Mr. Rockstroh could write us the "Marseillaise" we are looking for, but I wouldn't want him on the National Assembly we'll have to call soon.
Let's think it out in mutual caring and fraternity.

Unfortunately, one of those right wing clowns is Obama. He promised a nation (and especially its youngest voters) hope and change and instead has accomplished nothing and has led affairs in a decidedly rightward direction. It's my understanding that in the next election, since he cannot run on his accomplishments , he will attempt tp paint the Republicans as crazy==well, maybe that will work, but how many young voters will get out of bed to cast a vote to prevent the country from falling into the hands of crazies? Didn't happen in 2010. Aside from its being a pitiful platform. We need to dump Obama now and find a real Democrat to run in 2012. If Obama faces a serious challenge in the primaries maybe it will serve as a wakeup call to the business-as-usual Democratic power structure snugly cocooned in their delusional bubble.

I have long asked the same questions.

One of the saddest examples of this was the swift boat attack. Kerry and the Democrats just sort of rolled over and took a beating when they could have easily countered the lies. But they didn't--and there lies the question. Why?

One can turn the other cheek until you run out of cheeks. Unfortunately, such submission is often interpreted as agreeing with one's attacker's allegations. Thus, truth dies in the process.

Democrats have got to stand up. And fight. But they seem to lack the ability or willingness to do so. This is really confusing for those of us who wish to support them, but don't know what they will do or not do if such support is given.

Old Phil is wrong for all the right reasons. We need his voice and the above commentators in the discussion nationally which has become a dialogue between Eisenhower Republicans (Democrats) and the extreme right. This doesn't mean you aren't full of it in many areas.To start with you get the names wrong. If you can't figure out that in this day and age YOU are the liberals in the eyes of most Americans then you are stuck in the new left rhetoric circa 1969. Please update, reboot or snap out of it before you befuddle more people. By joining conservatives in attacking liberals you are simply a fifth column for the conservative movement. You are also helping to confuse the issue with young people on the left, many of whom now think Ron Paul is a viable alternative. Unless you want to re-fight the progressive-robber baron wars of the gilded age, you should help snuff out this libertarian nonsense forthwith. The result of not clearing this up will be the election of a Republican beholden to the extreme right. The choice for President is binary, you either choose the right direction or the wrong direction - its not a place for personal fulfillment or the pursuit fine distinctions.If anything you do aides the election of a Republican you are empowering the enemy of all the things your claim to stand for.

This is a Brillian piece by Phil, Thank you ~ it gives just more meaning to the vomit i placed at the WALL in DC within the first 30 seconds of seeing it; i was very leary of seeing it but had some time to explore DC in '03 the year of the Cicadas ~ Having been drafted into the Infantry '66-'68 and being WIA during the Tet Offensive i could very easily been another name, another tribute to the gd Capitalists and Fearmongering Jingoists of that day; who have along the way usurped our Government and mated it with the War Machine Cartels (u no, GE Exxon Halliburton) with the The Xian Reich-Wing and wiping out the Working Class all at once ~ ObamaNationInc is as much if not more of a danger to Liberty than GW. He's a slimey Neo-lib.
i'll never forget throwing up on the base of that heinous marker for the Warrior Culture.
Capitalism is the problem ~ Nationalize Energy, Banking, Big AG, health care and transportation.
The Revolution will not be Televised