American People
VP candidate for Independent (2012, 2016, 2020, 2024)
Running mate with nominee (2012, 2016, 2020, 2024): Nicholas Pierotti
Popular vote (2012, 2016, 2020): 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote (2012, 2016, 2020): 0/538
The campaign (2012, 2016, 2020, 2024):
Nicholas Pierotti has been running for US President since 2012 as an Independent using social media as his chief method of communication. He is a technical writer, poet, musician, and the founder of the Society for the Abandonment of Subjectivity and Objectivity and appears to change his place of residence every few years.
It would be accurate to describe his political stance as Left wing populist. He has said his running-mate is "the American People," and you can't get more populist than that. A Facebook post from his first campaign set the tone his subsequent runs as well--
The mainstream media is ignoring me, because I don't have the money machine behind me that Mitt Romney or Barack Obama have, but here's my two cents again. I am not rich. I am not owned by the corporations or by the political machine. I am of the working folk, like you. Not a Wall Street mouthpiece robed in false promises of populism. Not an Ivy League-educated lawyer with a web of powerful and dangerous connections.
I am not a lawyer, but I have been reading the Law now for years... like another man you may have heard of... his name was Abraham Lincoln.
I am tired of our current President and our current Congress tearing down our world. Every four years a new President come into office, and every four years, all the President does is work for the rich and for the war machine. And they continue to destroy and despoil our planet.
There comes a time in the life of any man when he can no longer stand the cant of hypocrisy, or stand by the door while the legions of robbers trample down the fair fields, and pillage and destroy all that has ever been dear to him, and trample down and defile the temples of beauty and honesty and Truth. It is in times like these that he must stand up alone, and make restoration to the People for what has been stolen from their Land.
I am not about Hope. I am about Deliverance.
We can't have Change when we have no change.
You are being told by Republicans, right-wing Democrats, and Tea Party defeatists that Government is broken. Government is NOT broken. It’s just been hijacked. It’s the bought-and-paid-for puppets of Wall Street in the Congress and in the White House that are robbing our future to fill their bank accounts. And it’s the two-party system that’s broken.
My name is Nicholas Pierotti. I am running for President as an independent candidate who works FOR the People, unlike the bought-and-paid-for Republicans and Democrats, who answer only to Wall Street and the rich. Together we will break the gridlock in Congress.
And that is why I am encouraging YOU, the Working People, to run for Congress, to run WITH me.
I want to fill the Congress with factory workers and Wall Street occupiers, line cooks and laborers, schoolteachers and homemakers; people who carry a lunch box to work and who pack that lunch box so that a worker can eat while they slave for Obama and Wall Street; folks who work two jobs to make ends meet. People like YOU and ME, who know what it is to live paycheck to paycheck, or with no paycheck at all.
And this from his 2016 campaign--
I do not belong to a party.
I am a free man.
Once you name a party, a party forms, a cadre surrounds you, and politics emerge. I am not about politics; I am about clearing the decks so that the voice of the people can be heard again.
After 2 years of my Presidency, the American people will have heard my message of radical involvement by the people for the people, interdependent governing, and how the party system, which degenerates into corporate puppetry, is against the best interests of the working people and against the freedom and human rights and environment of the Planet.
I will employ the office of the Presidency to speak to the American People, and tell them of my vision of a government of independent people, a Congress of independent individuals, unaffiliated with any established and therefore corrupt political parties.
Encouraged by my example, folks like me will run in droves for the Congress, spreading their message by the same grassroots methods I have employed, outside the system of Superpacs and corporate influence cloaked in populist rhetoric and false patriotism.
The new Congress that will be elected two years after my election will no longer be controlled by the two entrenched Republican and Democratic parties, and effective change by and for the People will finally be achievable, by a Congress and a President who are not owned by corporate lobbyists, rich criminals in smoke-filled rooms, and the war machine.
The grossly over-inflated Defense budget will finally be redirected into rebuilding our infrastructure and our economy; people will be fed and employed in and through their communities with community gardens and infrastructure projects that empower the citizenry.
And the dinosaur reptile-brain leadership of the Clintons and the Obamas and the Bushes, the Republicans and the Democrats, will become a thing of the past, and the country will be wholly re-empowered by a government by the People and for the People.
The whole point of my running as a complete independent, affiliated with NO existing party, is that it assures my complete liberty and independence from the lobbyists that rule EVERY established political party.
I welcome you at the dawning
of a new day.
As far as I can ascertain, Pierotti has never appeared on any ballot or was registered as a write-in in any state during the 2012-2020 election years.
Election history: varied
Other occupations: everything and anything
Notes:
Pierotti is already in the race for 2024.
