Have you ever considered why so many intelligent people fail to consider new ideas, or worse, flippantly dismiss them? It’s not that the possibilities are always obvious, but you would think smart people would have learned not be so dismissive. Yet it happens time and time again. If you don’t do it their way, the established way, you can't possibly succeed. They are so wrong.
Think of IBM and their decision to let Bill Gates take over the “niche” Operating System business. Michael Dell and the direct model comes to mind; Compaq, Tandy, IBM, and more than 20 other companies are now completely out of the PC Business while Dell has amassed over a trillion dollars in revenue. Ray Kroc created a unique approach for selling hamburgers, fries, and milkshakes; Burger King, Dairy Queen, and others all had a head start, but look at McDonald’s. Consider Google or Amazon. New ideas can change the landscape oh so quickly.
There is always a new way, a better way, but those “in the know” all too often refuse to see the opportunity. Can you imagine what those who made ships that sail thought the first time someone proposed starting a fire under the hull to propel a wooden ship into the wind? You can bet they found a way to say what a terrible idea it was.
That leads me to the most recent missile fired by Rush Limbaugh, but also supported by Mark Levin, several “ranking” Republican Party members in Florida and Texas who I have recently communicated with, and those who doubt GOOOH can succeed. They are concerned that a movement like GOOOH, or any third party, cannot win. Worse, they say it would be bad for “their” party, that it will siphon votes from them. They are so focused on their way of doing things that they all too often fail to consider anything new. Like so many others, they completely miss, diss, or arrogantly dismiss anything different than what they know. In their mind, paradigms never shift. Don’t be surprised, it happens all the time. But don’t despair either. The people always determine what succeeds and what fails. The elite are proven wrong time after time.
The reason GOOOH will succeed is that it is not a party. It is a non-partisan system leveraging an unbiased process, something we’ve never had before. It does not target the votes of one group, it seeks votes from all. It aims to fire politicians. Not Republicans and not Democrats, but politicians—all of them. It will remove the men and women who accept millions of dollars from special interest groups, who vote exactly how their party tells them they must, and who are so worried about their own political career that they forget they serve the people, at least until election time rolls around.
GOOOH is an entirely new method for selecting representatives. Just as McDonald’s marketed hamburgers in an innovative way, and Dell sold computers directly to the user, GOOOH will bypass the political parties and reject special interest money. GOOOH will use the power of the Internet and allow everyday Americans to participate. GOOOH will eliminate today’s politicians, the ones destroying our nation. GOOOH will revolutionize the way our country is managed.
The only thing that can prevent GOOOH from succeeding is if we cannot get the word to enough Americans to know there is now an option. I hope you will do everything you can to notify everyone you know. Get them to visit GOOOH.com. Our success depends on you.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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