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Hilarious.
Yes, you are.
Hilarious.
What are the major differences between your party for liberals like yourself in Canada and the democratic party in the US? I'm sure they are more policy differences than ideological differences, but I'm curious none the less.
What are the major differences between your party for liberals like yourself in Canada and the democratic party in the US? I'm sure they are more policy differences than ideological differences, but I'm curious none the less.
Yes, you are.
If the US is so concerned over some third-world island rum factory being a threat, it's strange how we left Beirut so abruptly following the bombing.
Add in the Russians, Cubans, and DPRK and you have a cold-war thriller. But you're free to believe it was over conch shells.
Hm......
Enjoy the kool-aid.
A desire for integrity, honesty, transparency in gov't, peace, jobs, single payer, end of cannabis prohibition, end war on drugs,...need I go on?
Surely you know this by now.
They have however joined in conflicts that were not our own more than a few times. Hillary for example did just that while SOS.
Jill Stein is as crazy as Ben Carson. Anyone voting for her is throwing away their vote.
If you want to support the Green Party, vote for more GP state legislators so that in the future, the Green Party has experienced/competent people to run in national elections.
Wait. you're trolling, right?
America is a disaster, though finally we are starting to get some good conversation about the problem:
Government is incompetent and corrupt
Medical system is super expensive and delivers way too much crap
Justice system is abusive not even bothering to pretend that it has much interest in justice
Primary education system has been turned into an indoctrination system
The university is an indoctrination, babysitting and job training center now, education no longer makes the grade
The military has been completely mismanaged.
The economy has moved to being an oligarchy system, one which does not work for the nation.
We are in massive debt
The infrastructure of the nation is the most decrepit is has been in at least 100 years.
We have a third world passenger rail system.
and so on.
But the larger sense — and liberals hate comparing Trump supporters to Sanders supporters — but what I found talking to voters for both of these candidates, voters who were angry and wanted to not just enact new policies but tear down the whole system, there’s a sense of crisis. There’s a sense that things are so bad that extreme times require extreme solutions. And there’s a hunger for radicalism in the face of what people see as a corrupt and unsustainable status quo.
Molly Ball gets it:
She's politically illiterate.
And morally bankrupt. The thing about Jill Stein is that she touts herself as a more faithful and principled alternative to democrats, yet she doesn't shy away from the political intrigue for which she maligns them. Her stridency and vindictiveness towards democrats are contrasted with silence and oblivion when it comes to republicans. What reconciles this perverse image is the realization that Stein views the Democratic Party as the political enemy, the mainstream progressive party that is standing in the way of her far-left Green Party. She benefits from the erosion of the Democratic Party, as defecting liberals and progressives would intuitively switch to the alternative that best matches their ideology. I don't fundamentally object to such political posturing; just don't pretend to be any different than the people you're antagonizing.
To get back to her political illiteracy, her views on Russia and how to handle it are horrendous. She actually manages to outdo Trump in that respect. I now understand why she's pulling at about 2%; I can't believe there are morons out there that believe her to be a viable alternative (I'm talking about you Bernie or Bust Butthurts).
She should view them as the enemy. Democrats are the most likely to steal from her platform and they are the most likely to take her voters. Republicans are not a danger to her nor can she hope to win over their voters. She is also better than democrats as she actually believes in what she says, while they don't.
Genuinely believing awful things doesn't make you better.
Simpleχity;1066455926 said:Stein is a whacko ... maybe worse than Johnson.
About the 22 sec. mark.
Sure it does. It means you stand for something even if you haven't the sense to stand for something better. I have far more respect for someone that fights for what they believe in than someone that fights for something just to be popular.
Okay... so he stuck his tongue out......
He needs to be put in an asylum immediately.
Well, his policies are whacko too. Many of his supporters only know the weed thing.
She should view them as the enemy. Democrats are the most likely to steal from her platform and they are the most likely to take her voters. Republicans are not a danger to her nor can she hope to win over their voters. She is also better than democrats as she actually believes in what she says, while they don't.