Jill Stein (1950- ), an American doctor, is running for US president in 2016 for the Green Party. She is the only clearly left-wing candidate. Last month in Texas she was tied with Harambe, a dead gorilla, and trailed Deez Nuts, a satirical candidate, according to Public Policy Polling.
Slogan: Time to Reject the Lesser Evil for the Greater Good.
Endorsements: Cornel West, Marc Lamont Hill, Dr Boyce Watkins, Chris Hedges, Ana Kasparian (Young Turks), Abby Martin (“Empire Files”), Immortal Technique, Viggo Mortensen, Oregon Progressive Party, etc. Noam Chomsky is voting for her, but urges those in swing states to vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton to stop Republican Donald Trump.
Polls: 4% said they would vote for her for president, according to Pew Research in August. Most of the Bernie Sanders voters, like me, have gone to Clinton. Stein does best among Hispanics (9%) and peoople under 30 (9%). She ties Libertarian Gary Johnson among Blacks and Hispanics and beats Trump among Blacks (4% compared to 2%).
Issues: 99% the same as Bernie Sanders and 91% the same as Hillary Clinton, according to ISideWith.com. Unlike Clinton, she is against the endless warfare state. Unlike Sanders, she is not colour-blind. She wants to cut the military in half and fight global warming by putting people to work to move the US to renewable energy. Communities should control the police, not the other way round.
Money: not beholden to the rich.
Experience: town meeting representative for Precinct 2 in Lexington, Massachusetts, elected in 2005, re-elected in 2008. She has run for state office in Massachusetts several times since 2002, twice for governor, but never won. She ran for US president in 2012 and got 0.36% of the vote.
Protests: She has been arrested for protesting things like the Keystone XL pipeline, but as far as I know, only in 2012, a year she was running for president.
Vice president: Ajamu Baraka, human rights activist. In 2001 the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty named him “abolitionist of the year”.
Stein:
“Half of our tax dollars are going into these wars for oil and they spill over into militarizing our communities, militarizing our borders, and we’re creating the immigration crisis to start with through the war on drugs, which has killed over 100,000 people in Mexico alone, and now NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement], these so-called free-trade agreements, that are supposed to be good for American workers, they’ve been devastating for American workers.”
On reparations:
“Reparations needs to happen. And this is a community that has been robbed blind, that built magnificent architecture and our transportation systems; they’re low-income people of color, in particularly slaves on whose backs this country was built. And we can’t stop at reparations, we need to totally reform the economy, and let me just say that this is not just some pie in the sky thing, we can do this.”
Cornel West:
“This November, we need change. Yet we are tied in a choice between Trump, who would be a neo-fascist catastrophe, and Clinton, a neo-liberal disaster. That’s why I am supporting Jill Stein. “
– Abagond, 2016.
See also:
- 2016 election for US president
- Bernie Sanders – dropped out
- Hillary Clinton 2016
- Donald Trump
- Gary Johnson
- Harambe
- Noam Chomsky
- Cornel West
- reparations
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I’m most impressed by Stein’s ideas about decentralized renewable energy and her jobs program.
Ajamu Baraka is quite a deep character with a long human rights track record.
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I Like Stien. I think her low poll numbers reflect her being virtually ignored by the corporate media. Johnsons higher poll numbers reflect that he has gotten more media exposer.
Lately she has been going after Hillary and the Clinton foundation.
At the National Press Club, she raised questions about whether the Clinton Foundation had influenced who did and didn’t get access to the State Department and who did and didn’t get military aid. Washington Post
“Where did her personal family financial business end, and where did the official business of State begin?” she asked. “To me, the mere fact that half of her emails she classified as ‘private’ — if someone is on the job, and half of their emails are for private affairs, there’s something wrong here. The continuing revelations about the influence of Clinton Foundation donors — the special deals that they got, the lucrative deals, the weapons deals with Saudi Arabia — this is really a national scandal.” Jill Stien
CNN did a poll mid July breaking down who the electorate favored.
1. Among Liberals: Hillary Clinton 72%, Gary Johnson 13%, Donald Trump 4%, Jill Stein 6%.
2. Among Democrats: Hillary Clinton 83%, Gary Johnson 6%, Donald Trump 5%, Jill Stein 2%.
3. Among Republicans: Donald Trump 85%, Gary Johnson 6%, Hillary Clinton 2%, Jill Stein 1%.
4. Among Bernie Sanders supporters: Hillary Clinton 55%, Gary Johnson 23%, Jill Stein 12%, Donald Trump 5%.
5. Among non-Trump supporters: Donald Trump 55%, Gary Johnson 20%, Hillary Clinton 8%, Jill Stein 3%.
The latest Fox news poll shows Johnson at 16% amongst Hispanics compared to Trump’s 17%.
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2016/08/12/fox-news-latino-poll-libertarian-gary-johnson-making-inroads-among-hispanics/
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“2. Among Democrats: Hillary Clinton 83%, Gary Johnson 6%, Donald Trump 5%, Jill Stein 2%.
3. Among Republicans: Donald Trump 85%, Gary Johnson 6%, Hillary Clinton 2%, Jill Stein 1%.”
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These news polls – without a doubt – show what’s wrong with Amerika’s addlepated thinking. No wonder the world (and the Amerikan selected political class) sees Amerikans as pinheads and goosey taxpayer citizens.
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Disclaimer: I’m white. I appreciate this blog very much. I use it regularly to help try to educate my fellow white people on White Privilege and Issues that pertain to People of Color.
That said, I wasn’t a Sanders supporter. In addition to the overt misogyny of his campaign, I’m not sure I buy the idea of Sanders as having been “colour-blind”, but rather I think he was “colour-indifferent”. He sees class as a proxy to racism. I think racism is a proxy to classism. I did not support Sanders because, IMO, in his world it seems to me that addressing class will fix everything. I disagree.
Growing up white in a city with a large black population, I heard the following joke often:
Q: What do you call a black man with 50 million dollars?
A: “N****r
Sadly, I think this is true even today. A black man with 50 million dollars, driving a luxury vehicle through a white neighborhood, is still likely to be stopped by Police and suspected of having stolen the vehicle.
Again, I’m white.
I’m open to input on whether my perspective is in line with yours or not.
Thank you in advance.
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Where’s joe McCarthy when you need him? Commie sympathizers, sheesh!
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Well now this may pose a dilemma. Jill seems more in line with my needs than Gary.
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@Roland
“I’m not sure I buy the idea of Sanders as having been “colour-blind”, but rather I think he was “colour-indifferent”.”—Well that makes two of us. This is part of the reason why I did not truly support him.
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“99% the same as Bernie Sanders and 91% the same as Hillary Clinton”
That’s a laugh. The fact that she wants to cut the military by 50% and essentially reverse the empire agenda makes her 100% different on foreign policy. So even if she were similar to Sanders and Clinton on domestic issues (certainly not the 91 and 99% asserted) that makes her at least 50% different. And the difference is, she’s better. She’s much better than Bernie. And much much much much much much much much much better than Clinton.
(https://youtu.be/IJ3omuLzsNM)
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One question i have is why Jill Stien Chose someone who wasn’t more mainstream like Cornel West. Choosing him would have gotten the ticket more media exposure.
In the meantime there is supposedly a warrant out for her arrest in N. Dakota for tagging a privately owned bulldozer that was part of the Dakota access pipeline “utility” illegally crossing Native owned land.
She has all called for a new investigation into 9/11.
http://independentpoliticalreport.com/2016/09/jill-stein-calls-for-a-new-investigation-into-911-attacks/
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Another reason Stein is much much better.
“In contrast to Donald Trump, who haven’t issued a categorical statement about his stand on 9/11 investigations and the entire bogus War on Terror, at least as specific as the construction of a “beautiful wall” against migrant workers, Jill Stein does.”
And of course Hillary Clinton, like Obama, is participating in the coverup and wouldn’t touch 911 with a 9 ft 11 inch pole.
@MJB
She may have approached West. I read somewhere that he said political office is not his thing. So he would have turned her down if she did.
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Yet another issue that reduces that “99% the same as Bernie Sanders and 91% the same as Hillary Clinton” claim. 911 has got to be given greater weight than other domestic issues because it has been the single greatest determinant of our domestic and foreign policies for the past 15 years. Call it a meta issue. Here again Stein is diametrically opposed to Sanders and Hillary. 100% different on this issue. So that 99 to 91 % I knocked down to 50, I now knock down another 25%. Stein is 75% different than Clinton/Sanders.
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@Abagond
Went to ISideWith.com but unable to find the 99 91 % reference. Where can I find it? Wouldlike to know how it was calculated.
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@Abagond
ok. Since I can’t find it I’ll have to consider it unsourced.
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@ nomad
Sources:
Source:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/jill-steins-play-to-the-bernie-or-bust-contingent
The tweet itself shows it was from ISideWith.com:
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I’m not sure how useful Isidewith.com is when it comes to determining who best represents your views. When I took the quiz my result were 93% Johnson, 88% Stien, 75% Hillary and 41% Trump.
Stien disagrees with Johnson 63% yet I match more with Johnson with only a 5 point difference with Stien.
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@nomad
Stein is 91% in agreement with Hillary at the moment, which is not the same as aligning with Hillary’s positions last year or for the other few decades of her career. Given she’s flipped flopped on almost every issue (and then lied about it), logic assumes Stein will be mostly unaligned with Hillary post election.
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@abagond
Thanks.
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Ron Paul thinks Jill Stien” foreign policy is better then Gary Johnson.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/03/ron-paul-criticizes-gary-johnson-praises-jill-stein/
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