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Socialist presidential candidate Gloria La Riva: Democratic Party afraid
of democracy
By Liberation Staff
May 22, 2016
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Originally posted at VotePSL.org.
“It has been truly disgusting to see in the last few days the great
lengths that the Democratic Party elite will go to in order to
disenfranchise the millions of people in the states yet to vote in the
primaries,” said Gloria La Riva, presidential candidate of the Party for
Socialism and Liberation. “The rigged state convention in Nevada, where
Sanders supporters were denied their full right to participate and the
chair blatantly disregarded the will of the elected delegates is just
one example. The Sanders delegates refused to accept this quietly, and
we in the PSL hope to see the same kind of militancy in every state
convention and the national convention in Philadelphia.”
“Sanders won in a landslide in Oregon – in fact the only county that he
did not win went to Clinton by a single vote. The Clinton machine has
deep ties in Kentucky, and the virtual tie there is a blow to its
campaign. This shows that the primary race will go on despite attempts
by the Clinton campaign and the rest of the Democratic Party to
extinguish the grassroots insurgency represented by the Sanders
campaign.” La Riva added.
La Riva continued: “Trump is a disgusting bigot, the embodiment of the
worst excesses of the capitalist system — there are not strong enough
words to describe him. But Hillary Clinton is such an obvious tool of
Wall Street, such a transparent war-monger, that she has only a
razor-thin and shrinking lead over Trump in the polls. The Democratic
Party cannot stop the rise of the far-right wing, only a mass movement
in the streets that puts forward a vision for a whole new type of
society can do that.
“The Democratic Party establishment is kicking its lesser-of-two-evils
blackmail into high gear, arguing that the only way to beat Donald Trump
is to fall in line behind Hillary Clinton. We need to see beyond the
current election cycle that every year brings us a worse and worse pair
of choices. Break the cycle, vote socialist, and fight for a socialist
society where the right to education, housing, health care, a job and a
real say over your future are guaranteed.”
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