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That seems right to me. I’ll vote for Bernie in the primary & Stein in the general election (assuming Trump-Clinton). > On Mar 2, 2016, at 4:24 PM, A.R. G via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> > wrote: > > 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: > >> 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
