Why are you Forward?

| July 12, 2022

Our team is putting together a montage video of our amazing Forward community. We want to hear your stories!

Be sure to include the following:

Your name and where you're from.
"I am Forward because..."
Any of the following:
- What’s wrong with today’s politics?
- How do you feel about the government?
- What three words would you use to describe what America needs the most right now?
- What can we do to find solutions to the problems facing Americans today?

There is no requirement to answer all of the questions above, just answer the ones you are comfortable with. Don't worry about making mistakes — we will be clipping these videos together to show the best responses. And, if your response doesn't make it into our initial montage, no fear: we'll be using these for future uploads on our soon-to-be-published activist YouTube channel.

Here is an example of a video that a member of our team recorded. She recorded this on PhotoBooth video on her Mac, but you can record yourself on your phone or whatever video format works best for you. Just make sure to send us the raw video clip as a MP4 or MOV file type. Have fun with it and be yourself! We can't wait to hear from you.

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Edward Valla commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-29 11:50:46 -0400

I think the ideas of open primaries, and non-partisan redistricting for congressional districts are good ones. I’m also attracted to the Forward Party’s focus on finding solutions. It will be extremely difficult to dislodge the entrenchment of both major parties. But perhaps we’ve reached a point in American society where a fresh approach can gain some traction among a broad swath of the electorate.
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Vernon Hutchings followed Why are you Forward? 2022-07-29 11:12:14 -0400
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Vernon Hutchings commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-29 11:11:19 -0400

Not having been a card-carrying member of any party since 1990, I decided to get off the sidelines. This swinging pendulum from left to right is not good for our republic’s equilibrium. The fact that a third party has not succeeded since the party of Lincoln is no excuse for not trying to get this republic off the dime.
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Ryan Dygulski commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-28 23:03:04 -0400

There has got to be a happy medium, Camaraderie is completely dead in the government this county.
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M (Mark) Mueller commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-28 22:02:50 -0400

I feel a change coming in rural areas. May Forward become the party where farmers and food consumers join efforts to regenerate our great American soil by providing non-poison, nutrient dense, delicious foods. Prosperity for farmers through regenerative agriculture! Clean, nutritious food for all, regardless of means!
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Sue Woodson commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-28 19:25:50 -0400

I believe in the evolution of our great nation. I do not see progress, forward movement happening in such a divisive Right vs Left party structure that only serves the extreme ends. We need LEADERS not panderers. We need policies FOR the people, ALL the people. Forward appears to be the momentum we require! It’s more than a movement, it’s MOMENTUM. It is beyond time for the stagnation of putrefaction to end!
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sharon feola commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-28 17:57:05 -0400

I appreciate the dedicated leaders who are doing this work. It saddens me to shift support away from my chosen party, the Democratic Party. But I think Forward is the best hope for enacting real policies that most Americans, the actual diverse majority, know we must move forward on. Thank you!
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Morgan Roselle followed Why are you Forward? 2022-07-28 17:42:14 -0400
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Morgan Roselle commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-28 17:40:19 -0400

I’m forward because I am sick to death of being told I am throwing away my vote. No one candidate appeals to me because they both suck. I hate “blame” I get for not voting for the other guy because nothing is getting done. I am tired of the disrespect that have become commonplace in the political arena. I hate that people will vote party lines just to spite the other side. Today people either want to live in the good ol’ days or fast forward 100 years without consideration of the people it will effect. I’m tired of the wealthy playing politics and creating a government to their making. As a country we are hostage to one way of thinking and no compromises. I want a government that works toward solutions without holding the people’s will hostage. I’m am frustrated that today’s leaders can’t have a civil discourse about real solutions because it fire up their base. I agree term limits need to be in place. I believe that accountability needs to be more prominent. No more finger pointing. I want true leaders, not someone who force feeds their opinions on me as truth. I want common sense back. I want a government for all the people, by all the people, not a select few. That is a recipe for corruption. I want honesty and integrity back.
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Eugene Hohenstein commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-28 17:13:50 -0400

One more comment.
Term limits for Supreme Court Justices
Term limits for federal judges
Term limits for all politicians
No campaign contributions from corporations because corporations don’t vote.
Limit contributions to $1,000.00 per person, people are the only voters.
If these changes are made, you will see a major change in the attitude of politicians.
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Eugene Hohenstein commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-28 17:09:04 -0400

I see people say that the “forward party” can only disrupt elections. Maybe so, but maybe that’s what this country needs right now given the options. Politicians don’t have to be good, they have to make it seem that the other person is worse. Left & right only have to bash, bash, bash and hope that gets them elected. That bashing is funded by the wealthy, and those politicians vote for what is best for the funders (not the people).
Politicians are elected to represent the people, not the money. That’s not the way the system works, it’s totally about the money. A 3rd option may take away the “it’s us against them” mentality. Politicians may have to actually address issue that face America instead of just fund raise to bash the other person. Something needs to break the hold that “money” has on our politicians, thus, on our system.
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Jeffrey Eaton followed Why are you Forward? 2022-07-28 15:37:41 -0400
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Jerry Mills commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-28 14:02:54 -0400

I’m not against or for issues but rather find solutions
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Jose Tumang commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-24 06:53:55 -0400

「In short, the Forward Party can’t win and will only disrupt election cycles. Drawing votes away from both camps most likely in more epic proportions than the other grassroots and Independent political parties. Concluding that this Forward Party cannot win.」
● This entitled mentality is exactly why the 2 parties that chronically fail us have no need to even try anymore, and they’ll STILL get votes. Should we reward this? How is this not Stockholm syndrome? The Pavlov-training must be broken!
● Presidential elections are important, but they’re not the only offices. And given State-level nullification of Federal laws, they’re not the only important races, either. The Libertarian & Green parties have hundreds of officeholders each at State & local levels earned slowly & cumulatively/incrementally, and their numbers rise with each election as discontent rises with the 2 abusive parties. (Start small, work toward Federal offices when the electorate are finally more used to voting for us.) Forward can do the same. As every other party has shown, this is a long-term campaign spanning multiple elections, not an instant D-Day. Do you really think the 2-party oligarchs will just sit back, watch, and actually ALLOW us mere plebes to overturn the system that benefits them? lol Hell no! We have claw it from them, take punches (many of them), and but still sneak in a few slashes, stabs, and kicks to the vitals until they suffer enough blood-loss to fall. A multi-party democracy is a fight we much wage, and a war we MUST win. SOMEONE has to do it, or it will NEVER come to the U.S. Others have started it. We must join, and give a helping hand. If we coordinate with the other parties, we’ll have a greater chance of victory. If we surrender, then all is lost.

Plus, there’s the secret-weapon yet unharnessed: the alienated 43% of eligible-voters who never even bothered to vote.
https://knightfoundation.org/reports/the-100-million-project/
We can sympathize, right‽ With the 2 ever-radicalizing parties as the “only” choice: morons or crazies? Why WOULD you vote in the 1st place‽ I’ve counted 16 non-R/-D parties so far! If we could match them to their party (or “parties” in this card-holding Libertarian’s case) and get them to spread the word, we’d be closer to the multi-party goal. (The more competitive candidates, the smaller the percentage needed to win office.)

As for the rest, yes. We have been sold-out. I’m not sure about it being to the C.C.P. (I’ve yet to look into that.) But we have, indeed, been screwed.
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UFO_Gangsta #1 commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-23 20:30:46 -0400

A better topic would be: (How can the Forward Party Leadership I.e. Will Conway prove to a prospective voting base, especially moderate republicans and moderate democrats thar the Forward Party isn’t just a front operation center aimed at garnishing libertarian and working class Independent votes thus negating many would be Republican votes towards the democratic election of Joe Biden or Michelle Obama in 2024? Or the reversal: to elect Trump? In short, the Forward Party can’t win and will only disrupt election cycles. Drawing votes away from both camps most likely in more epic proportions than the other grassroots and Independent political parties. Concluding that this Forward Party cannot win. Only a strong workers or maverick like party has any chance at actually winning front and center this upcoming election cycle and we all know it. However, workers parties are often associated with NAZIS but The Workers Party of today would be the platform of the blue collar community, the poor, the police and firefighters, the military, the fast food workers, the criminals, the labor Unions, etc. That’s what we need instead of this Forward Party right now. Bottom feeders unite against the elite my brothers and sisters for the Establishment politicians have sold you out. The financial sector employing bankers and business men & women have sold out the country to the Chinese all so that they could make money to send their children to private schools as our factories and means to rich GDP has diminished into nothing. And financial people are not the only ones responsible. Politicians from both sides of the aisle have participated in selling your jobs and your parents jobs to the Chinese. To BE ELITE!!!!!! It’s time for the script to finally flip. Workers=Elite!!!! Not white collar desk jockeys. No more! No more!!!
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Jose Tumang commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-23 03:28:13 -0400

And since I’ve already written anyway, my answers to the questions:
(And sorry-in-advance for the long read!)

● Your name and where you’re from: Joe T. from the Philippines.
● “I am Forward because…”: Many of the Forward Party’s platform-stances are exactly what we need: Washington MUST be purged/overhauled, and the election-solutions in the Forwardist platform give the electorate more/better choices, increasing the chances that the replacement-targets’ successors aren’t their peers. Plus, the other benefits (automatic tax-filing, data as a property-right, civic juries, etc.) are genius!

Any of the following:
● What’s wrong with today’s politics? The 2 complacent, entitled major-parties dominate the ruling-apparatus, the media, and election-laws, etc. Instead of a multi-party proportional-representation system, it’s a 2-party, winner-take-all focused on 1-party tyrannical domination (in fear of the other’s inevitable takeover & retaliation). Fear, anger, bitterness, resentment are cultivated and harnessed by politicians, the “journalists” who report on them, and the media-algorithms set to lock citizens into their own bubbles. False dichotomies are presented on election days, with all other options rendered “unelectable” by media & eventually the masses, who (insanely) voluntarily vote themselves & the Union back into the self-destructive system they themselves hate!
● How do you feel about the government? The Federal government is bloated, ever-growing, in severe need of budget-cuts & transition to zero-base budgeting, and overly obsessed with geopolitics, regime-change, and wars abroad… than in fixing the problems at home afflicting the voting citizenry. Even more embarrassingly, they still FAIL in their focus: Russia (whose ENTIRE G.D.P. is SMALLER than Texas’s) is beating Washington, all of N.A.T.O., and Western allies outside Europe, having liberated all of Lugansk from Kiev’s forces, and only has to do the same in Donetsk to win its publicly-stated objectives (PLUS they got Zaporizhzhia & Kherson, leading to Crimea as a bonus!). How‽ Remember the $640 hammers, $7622 coffee-makers, $1.1mil desktop-printers, the F-35 that costs U.S. taxpayers about $1TRIL EACH, all those tanks & other equipment Congress buys that the Pentagon says it doesn’t need dumped in desert-bases, etc.? And that’s JUST the Department of Defense, which had yet to pass an audit. How about the rest of government? How much more are we taxpayers forced to needlessly finance at law-enforcement’s gunpoint when we struggle to make a living? And (obvious) taxes are just the beginning! The U.N. agency International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) wrote about this in “The Liquidation of Government Debt” in 2015.
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/The-Liquidation-of-Government-Debt-42610
Their prescription to governments worldwide? “Financial Repression”! (THEIR words, not mine: “Financial repression is most successful in liquidating debt when accompanied by inflation.”) Inflation isn’t a bug. It’s a FEATURE, another way to drain US dry, to pay for THEIR spending!

And that’s just finances. Consider the trend from 9/11 to the COVID global lockdowns (de-facto house-arrest orders) & the legal-precedents these create. Remember also the militarization of the police, who still enjoy civil asset forfeiture & qualified immunity? Are we in 2022 freer than back in 2019 or 2000? It’s like law-enforcement’s staffing-problems are the only thing stopping us from racing to a police-state!

Washington’s politicians, bureaucrats, and their cronies & buddies benefit from this, and will not fix what keeps them happy, wealthy, and in power… at our expense.

● What three words would you use to describe what America needs the most right now? Election-Overhaul NOW
● What can we do to find solutions to the problems facing Americans today? Research and find solutions in other democracies. It was odd for me back in early 2010’s fighting for budget-cuts in Washington, only to see substantive budget-cuts & zero-base budgeting passing BACK IN THE PH, and THAT republic benefiting MASSIVELY, but not the U.S. Now, Manila is doing the same thing AGAIN: The incoming Department of Information & Communications Technology (D.I.C.T.)-head announced plans for essentially a Citizen’s Portal open 24/7 wherever there’s Internet. The Hell‽ Why is this only in 1-way‽
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Jose Tumang commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-23 00:46:32 -0400

@sherry arnett That pretty much depends. My fellow-Libertarians tend to hold as the core of our political convictions the Non-Aggression Principle (“Don’t hit people, and don’t take their stuff.”), localization/decentralization/devolution, and the minimization of government. Now, HOW (& to what extent) we apply this to the world can vary by individual. (Because of that, the same way that there are many types of Democrats & Republicans, there are many types of Libertarians, too.)

That said, most of the Forward Party’s platform don’t contradict my Libertarian conclusions.
https://www.forwardparty.com/platform
Now, comparing them to the Libertarian Party’s and you’ll find that both are silent on much of each other’s stances (since they’re both trying to solve entirely different sets of problems), or may support each other in some (ex. on fixing the mutually-shared problem of legally-rigged duopolistic election-rules), with some inevitable contradictions (since they’re not the 1 & the same party).
https://www.lp.org/platform/
They’re different answers to different questions on better governance, and can be combined for a more holistic set of solutions to the utter cluster-f— in Washington.

tl;dr: The Forward platform & Libertarianism are separate things, and many types of Libertarians exist. Forward’s platform & Libertarianism’s contradictions are minimal (in my view), and their wholly-different solutions can be complementary.
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sherry arnett commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-22 10:35:37 -0400

Will Libertarians meld with this or is there core diffrences??
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sherry arnett followed Why are you Forward? 2022-07-22 10:34:28 -0400
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Jose Tumang commented on Why are you Forward? 2022-07-13 05:30:19 -0400

Oi, does it have to be video? Can written responses also be done?
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Will Conway published Why are you Forward? in Activist Update Center 2022-07-12 10:42:25 -0400