That was the amazement of it all happening, and happening quickly, but still not really thinking there was much chance. And he may do it, which would be good for all of us. Greens have tried the purist volunteer ethic. FiveThirtyEight now rates him as more likely to win than any other candidate. Thousands, maybe tens of thousands of activists looked at the Green Party and mostly discovered there was no there there. He’s been the most persistent and persuasive advocate of re-imagining the Greens as an independent party with a dues paying membership in the thousands and tens of thousands in every state. Although, again, the media were playing it down. And there’s a lot of people who like war. I think there’s a little bit of that. But how does that warrant the Green Party risking contributing to Trump winning? Number three, the Greens must field a 2020 candidate and campaign focused on obtaining national ballot access and building strong, viable and sustainable state and local parties. Stein, Greens Drop Presidential Recount Effort in Pa. Will Bernie Sanders Face Donald Trump in 2020 Election. We have the climate crisis which the governments are not up to dealing with. There were a whole set of assumptions that you don’t even know are a political philosophy. [Laughs] I think that plays a role in it. Thanks to laws passed by Republicans and Democrats to protect themselves against competition, the Greens are not allowed to place local and national candidates on the ballot in about 20 states. And in Burlington, Vermont, the person he beat to become mayor was a five-term Democrat, but with equal support from the Republicans, so he was 100 percent accurate in that particular context. Bernard in a way has been more consistent. In their current condition, a number of critical state Green parties lack the capacity to undertake successful ballot access drives, don’t have the ability to launch credible organizing drives of any kind, and have no prospects of raising the bucks needed to pay for the organizers, the training and the tools to make it all happen. She won roughly 1 percent of the vote and many, including the former secretary of state, blamed her and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, who won 3 percent of the vote, for Clinton's loss, arguing they took away key votes that would have gone to the Democrat. So, there is a history, there is a background, there’s an ethos, but there’s also an unexplained element. . Things like that. He came out of the Senate for a few minutes with a couple of dozen press people and said, “I’m going to be running for president.” And he took a couple of questions and said, “I gotta get back to work.” And the resulting publicity was comparable to the delivery. You had apartment houses on the corner, which were less well-off people like us, and you had nice individual houses down the street for professional-type people. Bernie Sanders’s older brother Larry is an activist, too. But it was amazing. And I think that may well be a kind of Jewish attitude: They’re not gonna like us anyway, so why worry?
The GP and its 2020 presidential campaign will have to raise and spend a million to a million and a half on such a campaign, far more than the GP’s yearly budget for any of the last several years, but it’s a big step up that’s got to happen. The Dodgers were all over the place, one month they would be great, the next month they’d lose everything. It was a particular group of people in New York City, and it was an extraordinarily left-wing community.

And he stood up to it and he fought back.
“ADOS followers throw away the internationalism of their forbears, embracing instead a sometimes polite, but always frank hostility toward. Chris Hedges / TruthDig, by This is Bruce Dixon for Black Agenda Radio Commentaries. See why nearly a quarter of a million subscribers begin their day with the Starting 5. Bernie Sanders is still an independent senator from Vermont, though he’s running in the Democratic primary. In Vermont, there were [135,000 voters].

But I think his independence comes from that. I mean, the kind of pressure and the kind of attacks and vilification he’s had, from day one of his political career, have been enormous. In that context, Howie Hawkins, a contender for Green Party presidential candidate, recently published a clear and cogent essay titled “The Green Party Is Not the Democrats’ Problem.” It represents a precedent Green Party stance which may guide Green campaign policy. . And in a world that’s going to get more and more fragile, millions of people are in motion because they can’t make a living where they are because of climate change.

Stein doesn't think Sanders will take on Trump in 2020, but a recent survey of more than a dozen top Democratic strategists found otherwise, with Sanders emerging as the leading contender. It’s not a place of excellence, in any sense.

And, indeed, in his recent essay, Hawkins instead claimed a safe states strategy “couldn’t even be carried out. Which grew more in the last four years, DSA or the Greens? This is Bernie 2.0 – the Vermont senator has stepped up his game. My father came from Poland, my mother’s parents came over, the whole community was like that, really. Titled "Everybody Hates Jill," the doctor-turned politician talks about how she doesn't think Russians hacked the 2016 election, being berated by the press, and her assertion that the socialist senator from Vermont won't be on the ticket in three years. If we can’t hijack the rich man’s party we need to build our own party. Sheepdogs are herders, and the sheepdog candidate is charged with herding activists and voters back into the Democratic fold who might otherwise drift leftward and outside of the Democratic party, either staying home or trying to build something outside the two party box.”, re-imagining the Greens as an independent party with a dues paying membership in the thousands and tens of thousands in every state, Elizabeth Warren Wants Green Bombs, not a Green New Deal, Parallels Between Black and Palestinian Struggles, Bill Cosby Should Have Been Denounced by Black America Long Ago. It’s time for the GP to adopt the universal (universal outside the US anyway) model of workers parties and peoples parties who sustainably fund themselves year after year with the dues of their own members. Tiffany Muller / OtherWords, by And weren’t the Greens in the late ’80s and early ’90s winning elections to city councils and other local offices across the country, consistent with a grass roots strategy, though for much of the past 20 years, they’ve largely abandoned local and state contests, devoting nearly all their attention to increasingly harmful races for president? The national Green Party, and I am on its national committee, is unfortunately a feeble shell of what it ought to be. which I think, on the one hand, was a very strong performance from Bernie Sanders. We were part of a fairly specific kind of community, a Jewish community, fairly recent immigrants. If during the 2020 election campaign, the Green candidate campaigns in contested states knowing that he or she might be winning votes that would otherwise have gone to Sanders or to Warren or whoever, causing Trump to win the state and win the electoral college, how could that possibly evidence wanting Trump to lose as much as anyone? It never occurred to us that the government couldn’t do good things. There was a moment after the Democratic convention in Philly, when Bernie knuckled under to the forces who stole the election from him. His relentless focus is on the policies, this is what’s important. Bernie Sanders won't win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, former presidential candidate for the Green Party Jill Stein told Vice in a new profile published on Tuesday.. Where is an argument that this price is so great that avoiding it outweighs the price everyone, including Greens, will pay for re-electing Trump? The stance also says “the Green Party is not why the Democrats lost to Bush and Trump,” but even if true, that wouldn’t demonstrate it won’t be why this time. Bernie imagines he can, as Glen Ford put it, steal one of the rich man’s parties out from under the lords of capital. To bookmark your favorite articles, please create a user profile. I remember, a kid who I didn’t really know — because we were six years apart, our playgroups, our friendship groups were different — came up to me and said, “I have to tell you, your brother is really marvelous.” This kid had been bullied by somebody else. But wouldn’t Trump out of office much less Sanders or Warren in office not only benefit all humanity and a good part of the biosphere to boot, but also the Green Party? We offer this open letter in hopes of prodding discussion of the issues raised. There were one or two guys in the neighborhood who rooted for the Yankees who always won. It failed. [Last time, he received 69 percent of the vote, compared to 31 percent for Hillary Clinton.]. We agree with much, but find some ideas very troubling. Martina Moneke / Truthdig, by We don’t know how anyone could know that, but for the sake of argument we will suppose it is correct. In the polls, he has a higher proportion of women supporting him than men. Well, we know what happens when you have a very angry, exploited group of people if they identify themselves along national or religious lines. We can deal with it, the technology is moving beautifully, but the courage and conviction of politicians aren’t there.