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In reply to the discussion: Green Party’s Stein Predicts DNC Will Sabotage Sanders, Try to Reabsorb Supporters [View all]Kittycat
(10,493 posts)97. Seriously. That's what GWB brought us.
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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