An open letter by Noam Chomsky, Bill Fletcher, Barbara Ehrenreich, Kathy Kelly, Ron Daniels, Leslie Cagan, Norman Solomon, Cynthia Peters, and Michael Albert is being circulated calling on the Green Party not to run a candidate for president this year.
An excellent response was written, which I agree with, which you can find here.
I ain't voting for no corrupt, corporate Democrat if they get the nomination - Biden, Bloomberg, Butta-jig, Klobuchar, Warren, etc...
TWO new polls released today show Tulsi Gabbard's growing strength in New Hampshire, both counting as qualifying polls for the February debate.
One of these polls was conducted by CNN. Yes, that’s correct; CNN’s OWN polling qualifies Tulsi for the debate in the same week as denying her a place in an upcoming presidential town hall — showing Tulsi 1 point behind Amy Klobuchar, tied with Andrew Yang, and 3-5 points AHEAD of Tom Steyer and Deval Patrick who were both invited instead of Tulsi.
So the Democrats are already rigging their primary races with the assistance of the corporate media.
Why? It's quite simple - Tulsi dares call out the warmongers in her own party. That is a deadly sin in American politics thus she must be demonized as a Putin-lover, etc......
Don't tell me I have to vote for this corrupt corporate party! Don't try to blame the Greens (or anyone else) for the enormous failures of the Democrats.
I am not going to spend my entire adult life working to stop endless war$ and then turn around and vote for a political party that is complicit up to their eye-brows in approving massive military spending and promoting these wars.
If you want to vote for the ultimate 'nominee' of the Democrats you go right ahead. But don't tell me I have to do so. It's none of your damn business who I vote for. I'm a free man.
I fell for Jimmy Carter's line when he said "The arms race is a disgrace to the human race" and then he went ahead and built the Trident nuclear submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia. The last Democrat I voted for in a presidential election was Walter Mondale because he seemed like a nice man. (What does that actually mean?) But I later regretted that decision once I learned more about his record in the Senate.
I lived in Florida during the Al Gore loss to George W. Bush. I voted Green that year. I was among those blamed for Gore losing. But if there had been no Green on the ballot I'd have written in Joe Smooski. I saw how in Florida the black vote was dramatically suppressed and didn't hear a mumbling word out of Gore's mouth in defense of those voters. Never a word. But I've been blamed countless times since 2000 for his loss.
Each time a corporate Democrat loses people like me get blamed. In 2004 John Kerry lost to Bush and I, among others, got blamed. I'll never forget Kerry in his debate with George W. Bush saying, "If elected I will spend $100 billion more on the military than President Bush will." I was not going to vote for Kerry!
The fact is both Kerry and Bush went to Yale and were members of the elite Skull & Bones Club. Both parties play good cop-bad cop and ensure the corrupt oligarchies win no matter what.
If you were paying attention you'd have noticed that the vast majority of the Democrats recently joined with the Republicans in Congress to pass the 2020 NDAA that gave the Pentagon even more money ($738 billion) than they requested. Who says they never agree on anything?
I might be dumb but I'm not stupid. I know how this game is played. I've seen Democrats talk a good game for years about ending war$, doing something about climate change, dealing with poverty, fighting for health care and they never do. I owe that corporate dominated party nothing.
So don't try to tell me who I should vote for - it's none of your damn business. Sure I will argue the merits of one candidate or party verses another but on election day it is a personal choice. It's the one time I get to say NO THANKS to those who pretend to stand with those who suffer but at the same time take campaign money from those causing the suffering.
My prediction is that the Democrats will screw Bernie Sanders this year the same way they did in 2016. Already the media is demonizing him daily. They've got their convention rigged so in the 2nd ballot the 'super delegates' swing back in to ensure an 'acceptable' corporate candidate gets the nomination.
Don't ask me to vote for that hack - the choice of the very corporations I've spent my life opposing. Don't waste my time.
Bruce
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