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Showing Original Post only (View all)Green Party’s Stein Predicts DNC Will Sabotage Sanders, Try to Reabsorb Supporters [View all]
I am NOT advocating anyone vote Jill Stein or Green Party -- but you have to know they're likely right about this...DNC has done it before.Physician Jill Stein, who is seeking the Green Partys nomination for president in 2016, has called Bernie Sanders 2016 Democratic presidential campaign wonderful and stated that the Green Party will not attack that campaign.
However, she told RT on Saturday, But unfortunately he is in a party that has a track record for basically sabotaging its rebels. It has done a good job of doing that in the past from Dennis Kucinich to Jesse Jackson to Howard Dean, whether they use a PR campaign like the Deans scream to bring down the Dean candidacy. Also Jesse Jackson was sabotaged by a PR by the DNC. The Democratic Party has its ways of reigning people in if they try to rebel. The bottom line is that we are in political system in the U.S., which is funded by predatory banks and fossil fueled giants and war profiteers. So, we really need to reject that system, we say to reject the lesser evil so we can stand up and really fight for the greater good.
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In a Monday interview on New England Public Radio, Stein said, Whats been happening in the Democratic Party is youll have a good candidate who will run, but then the candidate gets reabsorbed and the campaign becomes reabsorbed back into the Democratic Party. So its kind of a fake left while the party becomes more corporatist, more militarist, and continues to march to the right.
She called the grassroots movement that Sanders has tapped into a rebellion that cant simply be passed on to Hillary Clinton.
However, she told RT on Saturday, But unfortunately he is in a party that has a track record for basically sabotaging its rebels. It has done a good job of doing that in the past from Dennis Kucinich to Jesse Jackson to Howard Dean, whether they use a PR campaign like the Deans scream to bring down the Dean candidacy. Also Jesse Jackson was sabotaged by a PR by the DNC. The Democratic Party has its ways of reigning people in if they try to rebel. The bottom line is that we are in political system in the U.S., which is funded by predatory banks and fossil fueled giants and war profiteers. So, we really need to reject that system, we say to reject the lesser evil so we can stand up and really fight for the greater good.
. . .
In a Monday interview on New England Public Radio, Stein said, Whats been happening in the Democratic Party is youll have a good candidate who will run, but then the candidate gets reabsorbed and the campaign becomes reabsorbed back into the Democratic Party. So its kind of a fake left while the party becomes more corporatist, more militarist, and continues to march to the right.
She called the grassroots movement that Sanders has tapped into a rebellion that cant simply be passed on to Hillary Clinton.
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Green Party’s Stein Predicts DNC Will Sabotage Sanders, Try to Reabsorb Supporters [View all]
Triana
Mar 2016
OP
Thank you! It's the policies, not the man. My vote won't follow Bernie if he stumps for Hillary.nt
PonyUp
Mar 2016
#18
Except, of course, that the DNC apparently has stopped doing college campus signup drives
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Mar 2016
#65
which would mean they don't have much faith in the switchability of younger voters
GreatGazoo
Mar 2016
#71
registration drives are organized locally by campaigns, for fucks sake. always were.
bettyellen
Mar 2016
#203
Democrats need to be in Geneva, to get public health care and education removed from
Baobab
Mar 2016
#141
There is a really good book "Serving Whose Interests" by Jane Kelsey which is a history
Baobab
Mar 2016
#209
Nonsense. We have done it on a smaller scale and we can do it now. We'e richest nation
bjobotts
Mar 2016
#238
Nothing opens peoples' minds as much as seeing that one example that shows what IS possible.
GreatGazoo
Mar 2016
#214
We would have to leave the WTO and dump all the other trade deals to have a government
Baobab
Mar 2016
#264
"too short on political alliances to have a chance of success" is self-fulfilling prophecy.
Maedhros
Mar 2016
#228
We will retake the senate.Things won';t be the same as now.We will take down corporate welfare
bjobotts
Mar 2016
#239
How about rw anti-abortion purity tests? That purity test is going nowhere, right?
That Guy 888
Mar 2016
#244
If the current head of the Florida Democratic Party hadn't helped Jeb Bush purge the rolls.
Fuddnik
Mar 2016
#61
So its gets easier to leave the Presidential Box empty on the ballot and vote all D down ticket.
DhhD
Mar 2016
#101
Well, not exactly... let's face it, Jeb! stealing the election for Big Bro that did it. Stolen is
FighttheFuture
Mar 2016
#160
Bullshit. Maybe if thousands of Democrats in Florida hadn't voted for Bush...
progressoid
Mar 2016
#191
I partially agree. Yes, Bush stole the election, but Nader made it much easier. nt
BreakfastClub
Mar 2016
#95
Yeah, it's easier to blame Nader than admit your candidate's campaign was stillborn
Mufaddal
Mar 2016
#125
Don't forget Sandy O'Conner's sell out. The fix was in. May they all rot in hell. nm
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#241
Exactly! Jeb! could not steal it definitively enough (not for lack of trying) so
FighttheFuture
Mar 2016
#161
Gore's poorly run campaign gave Bush more votes than Nader ever could have.
A Simple Game
Mar 2016
#44
Then maybe you could start a petition to ban third parties or something. Maybe make it illegal
A Simple Game
Mar 2016
#54
If the Democrats want the votes of the left they should pursue leftist policies.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2016
#107
You mean to add that moves to further away to the right with each passing year. nt
artislife
Mar 2016
#124
158 million people didn't vote for Gore and you want to blame Nader. Blame the hubris of the DLC
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#242
Excellent reply and it keeps life simpler and easier to ignore what is a complicated scenario. n/t
A Simple Game
Mar 2016
#70
Thank you! And imagine how much less damage there would have been to the environment
Tanuki
Mar 2016
#74
And the GOP helps the Green Party! Over and over again, they have financed Greens
Tanuki
Mar 2016
#78
We have heard your talking point a million times. That doesn't make it true.
Enthusiast
Mar 2016
#165
What about all the Jewish people that voted for anti-semitic Buchanon?
Elmer S. E. Dump
Mar 2016
#193
That is the short story. The longer story is it was the death of a thousand cuts!
mrdmk
Mar 2016
#200
Nah that would be New Democrats, pining for "Republicans We Can Work With"
That Guy 888
Mar 2016
#245
me either. I am now an Independent. I am no longer a Democrat. If a Democrat wants my
liberal_at_heart
Mar 2016
#83
I've only been here about a week and almost didn't join because of that loyalty clause you highlight
BernieforPres2016
Mar 2016
#85
You're allowed to say it until the nominee is selected and the primary is over
Oilwellian
Mar 2016
#100
The DNC's problem is that Hillary represents a lot that the revolution is against.
Kip Humphrey
Mar 2016
#9
So it’s kind of a fake left while the party becomes more corporatist, more militarist, and continues
UglyGreed
Mar 2016
#30
How completely odd that a third party candidate would be trying to create an issue in the Democratic
PeaceNikki
Mar 2016
#45
There is no sabotage. The Sanders campaign is losing quite well on their own. In fact the only
still_one
Mar 2016
#48
no, I don't assume any winner, but the Jill Stein OP predicting sabotage by just throwing out shit
still_one
Mar 2016
#198
The Democratic primary with both Bernie and Hillary is going to go to the end. The California
still_one
Mar 2016
#215
I won't be reabsorbed. Just think - I have asked many many times why it is okay for
djean111
Mar 2016
#53
And the DNC still expects me to give them money! What a farce this all is! n/t
djean111
Mar 2016
#128
Judging by her past actions, I almost expect Disaster Debbie to endorse her "friend" Rubio any day.
Fuddnik
Mar 2016
#246
it's like we are just High-Absorbancy Diapers...well...maybe they have loaded us up
islandmkl
Mar 2016
#56
You can dismiss her, but not the base of voters that simply don't support Hillary
Kittycat
Mar 2016
#104
Jill's commenting on exactly that point: i.e. why she doesn’t join Bernie's campaign ..
99th_Monkey
Mar 2016
#109
I voted for Jill Stein in 2012 and suffered no particular inconvenience in doing so.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2016
#113
Philosophically I understand voting the candidate with views closest to one own.
TheUndecider
Mar 2016
#153
You know what is the largest group of voters in the US right now? Independents
nadinbrzezinski
Mar 2016
#169
Mother Earth says: Adapt to change, or become extinct. And the DINOS are not evolved enough to
Zorra
Mar 2016
#137
Looks like Bernie is about to Part the Waters. The RED Sea where all the DINOS have ended up!
DhhD
Mar 2016
#197
Many, if not the majority, of Bernie supporters will not vote for Hillary. They will sit out of the
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2016
#178
Bernie or Bust pledge a sign that support can move to the green party
socialistforpeople
Mar 2016
#189
The Green Party will essentially stand down if Sanders gets the nomination and try to help him
Cheese Sandwich
Mar 2016
#195
Ah yes, "Monstrum in erroris" ... the ol' 'scheming monster' meme...LOL!
Recoverin_Republican
Mar 2016
#211
The "Green" Party also told us Bush = Gore. The tens of thousands of dead Iraqis might not agree.
NNadir
Mar 2016
#240
And why exactly do I care what the party of Nader 2000 has to say about anything?
McCamy Taylor
Mar 2016
#251
You seem to be convinced that the only reason that Hillary has not already been awarded the
djean111
Mar 2016
#252