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SleeplessinSoCal

(9,203 posts)
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 06:12 AM Jul 2016

Best way forward is NOT Jill Stein.

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/future-bernies-revolution

Important read and info for voters today.

As the fractured Democratic National Convention gradually unified behind Hillary Clinton over the course of the week, Bernie Sanders' frustrated supporters were left to wonder what was next for their would-be political revolution. An obscure political party thinks it has the answer.

Leaders of the Working Families Party, a progressive party backed by labor unions and community activists, were in Philadelphia this week to make the case to Sanders supporters that the WFP should carry the torch. Unlike the Green Party, whose presidential candidate, Jill Stein, has attracted some Sanders backers and threatens to draw votes away from Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump, the WFP sees itself as a complement to the Democratic Party, working to pull the party to the left.

"We are not the Green Party," said Dan Cantor, WFP's national director, shortly after arriving in Philadelphia on Monday. "We are not running noble but doomed people. We are trying to win Democratic primaries. We want to replace bad, corporate, or inert Democrats with progressives, and then we work to defeat Republicans."
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Best way forward is NOT Jill Stein. (Original Post) SleeplessinSoCal Jul 2016 OP
I'm a part of a Jill Stein movement,... MarianJack Jul 2016 #1
The best way forward IronLionZion Jul 2016 #2
That's what Sanders said he was promoting, Apparently that's also what WFP thinks it's doing. HereSince1628 Jul 2016 #3

IronLionZion

(45,680 posts)
2. The best way forward
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 07:55 AM
Jul 2016

is to elect liberal Dems to Congress and other positions so they can pass liberal legislation and budgets that President Hillary will sign into law. And appoint liberal justices to the Supreme Court to uphold liberal laws.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
3. That's what Sanders said he was promoting, Apparently that's also what WFP thinks it's doing.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 08:06 AM
Jul 2016

So we need to flail supporters of both as punishment over the differences defining 'liberal' and 'progressive'.

Yep. It's a big tent, but differences of opinion can be greatly minimized with proper encouragement.

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