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So I'm curious, what's wrong with voting for Bernie in the primaries, and then, if he loses as half of the Marxist critics are suggesting, voting for a Green during the general election? It seems like the only way the issue will come up is if Bernie wins the primary. If that happens I still think it makes sense to vote for Bernie while separately organizing real opposition outside of the electoral system altogether in order to downplay the effects of the grassroots opposition deflating in the rare event that he takes the White House. - Amith On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Ratbag Media via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Physician Jill Stein, who is seeking the Green Party’s 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.*” > > Jill Sten: “*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 ‘Dean’s 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 > < > http://nepr.net/news/2016/02/29/america-is-in-revolt-according-to-green-party-candidate-jill-stein/ > >, > “*What’s been happening in the Democratic Party is you’ll have a good > candidate who will run, but then the candidate gets reabsorbed and the > campaign becomes reabsorbed back into the Democratic Party. So it’s 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 “*can’t simply be passed on to Hillary Clinton.*” > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
