How to Win the election, engineer a meme

[PrezPaul12]

Forget about yardsigns, banners, and t-shirts. You need to eat, sleep, and drink Ron Paul bumper stickers, like me. No, not in the paste 6 obnoxiously on your car kind of way. I'm talking about a bumper sticker chain letter; a meme. Ron Paul's support base is the only group of people passionate enough to win the election using a meme. superPACs will be dwarfed, even with their millions$. The media will not be able to spin it. The media would have the public believe that the race is all neck and neck between Obama and Romney, like a Nascar race. The reality is that the majority of Americans are apathetic or indifferent, at least until election day. We need to reach them, because they aren't coming to RP internet sites, and we can't reach them through the mainstream media. Much of the politics up until the election is only diversions from the fact that on election day, our entire democratic process is in the hands of a single, for-profit corporation, yet it is boxing matches that get triple counted for accuracy.

To get the Ron Paul movement lightyears ahead of all the other candidates before election day we must act fast to get 24 million bumper stickers on the road. If we do that, the large number of Americans apathetic about politics may take notice and actually do their own research about Ron Paul. Read about the strategy on my site www.BumperToBumper4RP.com .

I need a team of meme engineers. It is important that every single Ron Paul supporter knows about this strategy ASAP. If you're interested in engineering this meme email me at [email protected] .

Tasks include recruiting more meme engineers, finding Ron Paul supporters over twitter and getting their attention to the site, posting in blogs, contacting high(er) profile vloggers to get them to talk about this strategy, and coordinating twitter-bomb for a 10 minute window each day until the election. WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THIS INFORMATION TO EVERY LAST RON PAUL SUPPORTER. We'll do whatever it takes to get more eyeballs reading about it.

Must have a can do attitude.

 

[romancito]

The meme. When Rand faced the TSA early this year he had an opportunity to build a meme for Ron Paul and he didn't. On the contrary somehow after a meeting with the FBI he and the campaign changed their minds and stop pushing to win. Now TSA wants to spray your family with lasers to read how many babies your daughters will be able to produce for the state.

Which meme. That the TSA will laser you until you submit or if you don't they will fry your brain cells. I don't think Ron Paul will oppose the government anymore.

What meme. Maybe you can design a meme like a TV reality contest in which we would find the next Ron Paul star quality 35 year old who would believe in Ron Paul's policies but have the energy and courage to follow through to win in spite of the risks to those who support him.

In any case the meme should be for the Ron Paul family to find the next Ron Paul in a reality show like american idol. Or for us to find a square like the Tahrir square where the Ron Paul supporters can camp for as long as it takes to require the army to monitor the elections and assure that vote flipping is not the norm.

I am a confused soul. I am confused between democracy and political campaigns in undemocratic countries being stronger than democracy in democratic countries. Where building a meme in undemocratic countries would be easier than in democratic countries.

Can do attitudes can quickly be subdued by police enforcing aesthetic values. And when pasting a poster on a building or public utility pole would get you jail time.

We have a semblance of democracy and that is what makes us happy. A real democracy would be too disruptive and would make our roads too ugly.

 

[brandon]

... I can't comprehend this. Are you being serious?

 

[truthspeaker]

Okay, I'll play. But slogans go a long way.

Obama's was "Yes we can"

Clinton's was "It's the economy, stupid".

We have a list of sign slogans already. I would take one of those and put it with an appropriate picture.

 

[libertyfanatic]

The media perpetuated the meme that Ron Paul can't win. Everytime, I would talk to somebody about Ron, they would always say that they liked him but he can't win.

 

[muzzled dogg]

Yeah this is the type of shit the campaign and the grassroots should have been working on 12 mos ago

 

[drummergirl]

It'll be good to have ready to go after the brokered convention.

Yeah this is the type of shit the campaign and the grassroots should have been working on 12 mos ago

 

[brandon]

I think I might have an even better idea. How about a computer virus for Ron Paul? It can be a quiet, harmless (so it's compliant with NAP) self replicating trojan. After we infect the majority of computers in the country, on the day before election day we will lock all computers down so they can't be used, and only display "VOTE RON PAUL" in big text. I don't see how this could possibly not result in victory. Perhaps we could also have the computer play songs by Aimee Allen or Jordan Page, if they have speakers.

 

[Bronies-4-Paul]

This is why I chose my username. Bronies and Ron Paul supporters are two very energized, proud but all too often stigmatized, mostly young groups. I believe there is a large crossover potential for these memes.

 

[Keith and stuff]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bronies

Lots of interesting stuff about what a brony is

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[Anti Federalist]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bronies

Lots of interesting stuff about what a brony is

Bronies 476 up, 469 down

Bronies simply means people who are of an older age group and like to watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. There is nothing particularly exciting about this, but they make a big deal out of it.

Jump on to a forum most places online, and you will see these people often pushing their fandom. As in, you will be on a forum for cars, and someone will have their display picture as a pony, and all their posts will be about ponies. Then when people accuse them of being off topic, they go into a rant about acceptance, as if watching a cartoon is some sort of big revelation.

Subculture is one thing, but it is a totally other thing to push it into people's faces and then get upset. It would be like heavy metal fan jumping on to a My Little Pony forum and spending their whole time talking about metal, and then getting upset that they aren't well received.

As such, bronies are known to complain about acceptance, and about how hard it is to live in a world like this. News flash fellahs, no one really gives a shit. People don't hate that you like My Little Pony, they hate that you won't fucking shut up about it.

Brony: Hey guys, I know this is a post about motorbikes, but did anyone watch My Little Pony yesterday? Wow!

Regular poster: Umm...that is a bit off topic, don't you think? What is with all these posts about ponies?

Brony: Us bronies just want to be treated like everyone else. Why do you hate us for our subculture?

 

[MJU1983]

Saw "meme" - posted meme's:

 

[parocks]

Yeah this is the type of shit the campaign and the grassroots should have been working on 12 mos ago

my avatar / profile picture is a meme. Was likely more relevant right after Santorum dropped out and the msm was telling everyone it was over.

Grassroots in 2012 had very very little real collaborative work and a lot of people trying to sell something, usually something not very good. And the people who wanted to have any sort of collborative effort just didn't have the monetary incentives that the people who had a product to sell did, and the people making money from bad products just pushed and pushed and pushed.

 

[Eisenhower]

The OP is actually very good, and stuff like this should have been done 1 year or more ago. Same with viral videos.

 

[Crystallas]

Every few months, there is a thread on "starting a meme" for Ron. This has been going on for years.

It's simple to say, "Let's start a meme." But to make one that sticks... not so much. Aside from Moneybomb, End the Fed, For Liberty!, and a number of other ones that we simply take for granted, yet, they are Ron's, and the grassroots/campaign's, ongoing memes.

 

[CPUd]

 

[Anti Federalist]

Every few months, there is a thread on "starting a meme" for Ron. This has been going on for years.

It's simple to say, "Let's start a meme." But to make one that sticks... not so much. Aside from Moneybomb, End the Fed, For Liberty!, and a number of other ones that we simply take for granted, yet, they are Ron's, and the grassroots/campaign's, ongoing memes.

"Tea Party"

 

[CavortingChicken]

Got a meme for Ron Paul!

Ron Paul 2012
We tried it your way!