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2016 Elections, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Electoral College, Green Party, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, National Politics, Ralph Nader, Third Party January 28, 2020

You Can Trust ‘Left Liberals’ to be Liberals First (and Left Last)

A Reply to Chomsky & Friends’ Open Letter By Jack Rasmus January 28, 2020 This past weekend a group best identified as ‘left liberal’ intellectuals posted an ‘Open Letter‘ to the Green Party charging that party with being responsible for Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016. They then declared that the Green Party’s 2020 (potential) presidential candidate, Howie Hawkins, should not run in 2020, lest the Greens become responsible for getting Trump re-elected again. Everything should be done to ensure that a Democrat Party candidate, whomever that might be, should win in 2020. That includes even Joe Biden, they say. Left…

2012 Election, Environment, Green Party, National Politics, Third Party October 27, 2012

Voting Green in a Swing State

Counterpunch by B. SIDNEY SMITH WEEKEND EDITION OCTOBER 26-28, 2012 “You’re Doing WHAT???” I live in a purple part of the country (Virginia) and move in academic circles, so of course I know many, many people who will be voting for Obama. It is impossible to know, but if I sodomized the Easter Bunny in front of their children the look on my Obama-voter friends’ faces could scarcely be much different than the look they get when I say I am voting for Jill Stein. “But this is a swing state…you have to vote for Obama…what if Romney wins?!?” The…