Columnist puts Bernie's 'Concession' in Perspective
In a word,
"Bernie put the Progressive Movement 'on the map' ...
by running as a Democrat, against very stack odds against him."
That, according to columnist H. A. Goodman:
Bernie Sanders Endorsing Clinton Makes Dr. Jill Stein the Most Powerful Woman in American Politics
Link to video
H. A. Goodman also notes that
"Bernie Sanders laid the groundwork, he built the foundation for a Jill Stein presidency."
Goodman continues his take on yesterday's 'obligatory' political theater here, in written format:
Bernie Sanders Just Made Jill Stein The Most Powerful Woman In American Politics
by H. A. Goodman, huffingtonpost.com -- 07/13/2016
[...]
The Green Party’s Stein is now the liberal establishment’s worst nightmare: a trustworthy and inspiring progressive candidate who stands for ideals and principle.[...]
Dr. Stein also correctly states “If you don’t want to vote for a warmonger or racist billionaire, there are more options.” It might come as a surprise to Hillary voters, but most Americans are tired of voting for the lesser of two evils.
H.A. may be on to something ...
Will progressives pivot, and leverage the 'national visibility' Bernie has given our issues?
Time will tell ... it always does.
Comments
Where is
Where is that darn $27 button?
Donations to Jill Stein Explode Nearly 1000% Since Sanders’ Endorsement of Clinton
by dkmich -- 07/13/2016
I know
Not only did I have to fill out my details again...
I had to actually type 27 into the other box.
The labor!!! The RGB!!!
Ah well, I supposed it is too much to ask that the GREEN party use ActBLUE. Opposing primary colors and such...
All I can say though is that both BLUE and GREEN are opposed to RED
Is there not some irony in that in today's world, it is the Republicans that are the REDs?
Damn Reds.
Of course, if we go back further, the RED Coats were the enemy of freedom and democracy. (reserving comment on the Democratic party's feelings about democracy: free and open elections and such)
Speaking of which, everyone should watch TURN! (AMC, S1, 2 on Netflix) to learn what it means to fight for democracy and freedom. It really makes history real. And steamy...
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"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. "
-Niccolo Machiavelli
"Sorry Hillary"
-TheJerry
ActBLUE is such a scam
IIRC They take a ~5% cut of every donation and give it to "down ticket" Dems. Yeah right, we all know who the down ticket Dem is (Hellery cough cough, I smell burning sulfur).
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Great article, jamess.
I'm fired up for Jill. Many thanks.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
I am voting for her
Absolutely.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Yes, it's only a question of the range of votes now
that is to say, will Jill end up in a threshold over 5 million but less than 10 million votes by Nov. 2016? Anything higher than 10M would seem implausible.
It will be interesting though unfortunate, to see Edison playing around with exit poll numbers again, and inflating or deflating actual data to match official electronic counts. This is the method of their madness.
I've inquired at my local elections office about the process for new, certified voting systems vendors in Florida, such as the TEVS system recently implemented by Mitch Trachtenberg, Carolyn Crnich, registrar of Humboldt County and Kevin Collins in Northern Calif. The results speak for themselves.
Here in Fla., they will first mandate complex and extensive testing prior to implementing any new vote-counting hardware. But after all is said and done, they tolerate secret code and proprietary software by any manufacturer that is approved. That's really so Vietnamesque, enabling democracy for the village by napalm.
I just don't get it, what's the point of all this testing if the approved system is going to be by-passed with secrecy anyway?
State bureaucracies in the elections offices are thoroughly corrupt under the local Rethugs here. The Dems generally tolerate it. Like global warming, we are supposed to ignore it and pretend that it doesn't exist.
Waiting for Hillary to go to prison, then I will donate to Jill.
Despite his tepid endorsement of Medusa, any viewer of the speech could see that his heart wasn't in it--He was livid with rage--and it showed through the pretty words. He is a man of great integrity and will keep his promise if HRC is the nominee. The facts of life regarding Democratic knavery explained why he did what he did--Steven D's recent essay. Actually the form of coercion used actually calmed me down. Maybe I am fucking paranoid, but I fully expected a conversation between one of Medusa's henchmen that would have sounded like this: "Those are nice grand-kids you got, Bernie. It would be a shame if anything happened to them".
Cynical? Realistic? You tell me.
Why are you waiting?
Or don't you intend to vote at all if Billery gets the "win?"
The more people I meet, the more I love my cats.
I vote for realistic. eom
Bernie was Rendell-ed
by the DNC, I'm sure of it. It wouldn't have gone beyond that, because Sanders is a smart guy. You can take that to the bank. I grew up in PA and know firsthand how skeezy and slimy the state Democratic machine is/was. I haven't lived there for years but have plenty of family there and I keep up. Ed Rendell is a serious Hillary groupie and he's as slimy as the day is long. He could get away with stripping Sanders delegates and giving them to that woman, and barring Bernie from the convention.
All that was needed was reminding Bernie of the Rules. They are what they are. He really, REALLY wants to be at that convention and he will be. Just. Like. He. Promised.
I'm in
signed up and donated! If by some miracle Bernie gets the nod I will still vote for him,until then I'm with Jill fuck Hill.
Tee shirt, bumper sticker, poster for Philly
Yes, Jill - Phuque Hill ( or Fuck, if you prefer!)
I read Phuque
as puke. Guess that's alright too.
" El pueblo unido jamás será vencido. The people united will never be defeated "
Which map is that?
The map of candidacies in which the victor was cheated out of victory? Mexico has lots of those. This was one thing the Zapatistas realized, in the corrupt environment of Mexican politics: revolution does not take place on the grounds of electoral politics. What they missed was that the right candidate might push it forward, which is what Bernie did. But candidates only go so far.
Hopefully when the coronation ceremony is over next week we will see Bernie do something interesting besides campaigning for Secretary Clinton. Otherwise, gang, we're on our own.
"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening." -- Rosa Luxemburg
It can't depend on Sanders.
It seems Sanders believes in working within the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party does not want to be changed from within. Democratic politicians believe that Third Way, or even further right, is a winning formula for both re-election and building personal wealth, both of which they apparently prize far above "public service." It's worked very well for them--or so they think--and they will not give it up willingly. They way that they arrayed against Sanders, almost as one, from state party functionaries to the DNC, to the President, spoke volumes.
If someone is going to be able to overcome all that, it won't be Bernie Sanders. Don Corleone, maybe. Vermont Senator Sanders, who, among other things, took the first Democratic debate as an opportunity to announce that America did not care about his opponent's emails, no.
I respect and admire Senator Sanders and, yes, he did wake up many Americans--exactly why I was thrilled he ran and why I donated to him to the legal maximum. However, I don't believe he is going to be able to change the Democratic Party. His recent cave to the Hillary camp, despite the repeated promises he made while fundraising from people like me to take it to the convention, only confirms my belief that he is not the one.
I am grateful to him for all he has accomplished in one year, but it's time to make other plans for the future.
It can't depend on Sanders.
Double post.
It can't depend on Sanders.
Triple post. I'm so sorry!
#JillNOTHill
That is all.
This is an article from May
but she goes into great detail about what Bernie's campaign is about and why he should(shouldn't have) cave by endorsing Hillary before the convention.
She also goes into great detail about the damage that both Clinton's did during his term as president and her votes while she was in the senate and her time as SOS.
She called Hillary a lobbyist which is true.
Look at how she lobbied for Boeing with Russia for a deal on jets.
Plus how she and Bill made so much money during her time as SOS.
Both Bill and their foundation made millions while she was SOS.
After the earthquake in Haiti, the foundation and their families and friends made a lot of money while Hillary's state department ran interference and made sure that the election went their way.
This author has another great article on counterpunch about Bernie's endorsement is a great read too.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/13/bernie-sanders-endorses-hillary-c...
The foundation along with the state department in Haiti during the reconstruction and the election made millions not only for them but their many friends after the earthquake
This is the one from May.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/04/its-not-about-bernie-why-we-cant-...
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
I LOVED the headline . . .
Jill Stein, the most powerful woman in politics... but it is a bit unevolved, my reaction. because i somehow take pleasure in the idea of Hillary Clinton seething and Liz Warren doing something ... maybe pulling tissues out of the tissue box and throwing them around the room?
I think I'm going to send my $27 to caucus99percent . . . we need another round of fundraising cause I think "we need a bigger boat"
“There are moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory… ”
― Lawrence Durrell, "Justine"
To paraphrase the late, great
Ray Charles, "Let's go get Steined!"
Our village and town are so small that we don't have a village idiot or a town drunk. Nope, we all take turns.
Released shortly after Charle's discharge from rehab
Let's Go Get Stoned was released in 1966, shortly after Ray Charles was discharged from rehab, after treatment for a 16-year heroin addiction.
But, I would not feel so all alone--Everybody must get stoned!
http://bobdylan.com/songs/rainy-day-women-12-35/
A great post and thread
These are the first words I read this morning and it's a great way to start my day.
Thank you Jamess and c99
Bernie did the right thing
Imo, it's almost certain that 'the evil one' demanded Bernie's endorsement before the convention in exchange for (pretending to) incorporate the key elements of his campaign into hers. A wise strategic move, in that it removes almost all of the remaining infinitesimal chance of an uprising at the convention, again, imo.
Again, imo, Bernie could have held out until after the convention, but that would likely have meant that the fascist in the pantsuit would have taken her offer to openly embrace his ideas off the table, because she and the DNC still believe that with Trump as opposition, they are a 'lock' to win the Presidency.
Of course, based on the 'pivot' to Stein, I think the idiots of the beltway dumbocratic party are putting all their money on a very broken donkey to just barely stumble across the finish line ahead of the red-headed-moron.
actually, this:
“There are moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory… ”
― Lawrence Durrell, "Justine"
Ha, ha, ha, ha
Yaldabaoth, Saklas I'm calling you. Samael. You're not alone. I said, you're not alone, in your darkness. You're not alone, baby. You're not alone. "Original Sinsuality" Tori Amos
I was thinking along those lines
But actually I thought there was going to be a colloquy more along the lines of: "You've got nice grandkids, Bernie. It would be a shame if anything happened to them". Sorry, to be repetitious as I posted this comment to another essay also.