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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…

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2012 Election, 2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders, Climate Change, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Green Party, Jill Stein, Ralph Nader, Single Payer, Socialism, Third Party January 9, 2020

Socialists and the 2020 Election

Solidarity By Linda Thompson and Steve Bloom January/February 2020 issue PROSPECTS FOR SOCIALISM are off in the future. The 2020 presidential election is here and now, and confronts us with a right-wing menace unlike any that has been faced before. When asked what our goals are in the 2020 elections the majority of left activists in the USA will say: “to defeat Donald Trump.” Many are even more specific: “We are Bernie or Bust.” If we are honest with ourselves, however, we must acknowledge that many of these will also end up urging people to vote for the eventual Democratic…

Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Economy, Health Care Reform, Middle East, Obamacare, Ralph Nader, Single Payer December 24, 2019

Ralph Nader: Democrats have no excuse for dealing with Trump

Truthdig By Ralph Nader December 23, 2019 While attention was focused on the House of Representatives’ impeachment of Donald J. Trump, legislators from both parties were secretly huddling with White House aides to seal a $1.4 trillion budget deal to fund the government until next September. They were rushing to do this to avoid a partial government shutdown starting December 21, 2019. Had the budget been deliberated in open Congressional hearings, the media would have reported on this backroom deal and the people of this country would have had a chance to weigh in during the proceedings. Instead, a degraded…

2016 Elections, campaign reform, Democratic Party, Green Party, Jill Stein, Ralph Nader October 3, 2016

Evil of the Two Lessers

OpEd News By Chris Robinson Permit me to offer a brief history lesson, which might convince some to see the world from a different perspective. The first election campaign I volunteered in was that of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964. I was then a student at Dickinson College, but I was not yet old enough to vote. During the half century since then, I have been an active participant in politics, and I have learned two interesting lessons, which I plan to share with you if you keep reading. I can see now that I was a young fool…