Well stated, and though I disagree with you on beliefs and systems of same
you have the right to state yours. I honor that sir though I simply and
strongly disagree with your beliefs.
It is often that simple.
----- Original Message -----
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<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2016 2:27 AM
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses Hard
Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
yes, the process of election campaigning has become a farce including the need for debates that are orchestrated circuses. I personally am more concerned with partisan platforms that determine the real issue and liike most voters I will vote my personal interests not as far as how it effects my wallet but my belief systems. Perhaps if my beliefs were different I would vote for a third party candidate to be downw for the cause.
Chuck
-----Original Message----- From: Bob Hachey
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 11:50 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
Hi Chuck,
What does the fact that one needs a large war chest to run for office
successfully say about our so-called democracy? To me it says we have two
very powerful and corrupt parties who mostly don't give a hang about anyone
earning less than, let's say, $200,000.00 per year.
I'm sick to death of hearing about how candidate X or Y is not worthy of
support just because it is said that he or she can't win. The fact that I
may vote for Clinton merely to keep a fascist like trump out of the White
House pains me tremendously. I can just picture the puppet masters laughing
as they watch this dog and pony show that our election process has become.
Bob Hachey
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Krugman
(Redacted sender "ckrugman" for DMARC)
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 6:36 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses Hard
Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
well that's what the Greens do. I have a friend who is a Green party
candidate for Congress and he put his name on the ballot has no money or
resources to campaign with and is there as a place holder. is that really
going to bring about change?
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 7:06 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses Hard
Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
If you have a viable plan to win a bourgeois election rigged by the
bourgeoisie for the bourgeoisie then you are only committed to the
bourgeoisie, not the working class. If you are committed to the working
class you will lead them away from the bourgeois electoral system to
organize independently. That may mean running candidates for propaganda
purposes, but it does not mean planning to win the election so that you can
administer the bourgeois state for the bourgeoisie. Fuck the bourgeois
elections!
On 3/24/2016 9:38 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:
Miriam, the problem here is that, as you said yourself, Jill steinanything as "us" left.
(and sadly probably Sanders as well) doesn't have a chance of winning.
You can't be committed to the working class, or anyone else for that
matter, if you don't have a viable plan to win an election. Just
running to be a spoiler doesn't make you committed to the working
class. As far as not knowing them, you are being very presumptious
about that. In reality I have a 7 degrees of separation thing
personaly with Sanders and although I generally like the guy he still
is a political machine; not exactally one of us, if there is really
FrankRepublican in charge of voting in one's state.
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Miriam
Vieni
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 6:40 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses
Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
I think you are doing a disservice to both Sanders and Stein, probably
because you haven't read anything about who they really are or their
actual lives. The question is, who is it who is actually committed to
working people and middle class people. The Democratic Party
Establishment, funded by Wall Street and corporations, and represented
by Hillary Clinton worth millions and millions of dollars, talks the
talk, but does not walk the walk. There are Progressive Democrats, but
even they are limited by the party establishment. If they don't tow
the party line, they lose party funding. The Party didn't even give
support to unions. The party has been good on LBGT rights and a
woman's right to choose. They've been good on voter rights although
from all I've been reading lately, the voting machines are so easily
hackable, that it may not matter whom one votes for if there is a
But I have a Democratic Congress woman and she, and the one beforementality.
her, have voted against the interests of the people just about every
time. And one of my Democratic Senators, Chuck Schumer, is no friend
of the working man either. Hillary was on the board of Walmart. The
fact that the Republicans are religious fascists, doesn't justify what
the Democrats have been doing to immigrants, to people of color, to
poor people, to working people and, in case you have forgotten, to
blind people. Sservices for the blind are not what they were.
All of you competent, employed, tech savvy people seem to have
forgotten about the less well favored blind folks. As chuck said, his
life is comfortable. It's an American white middle class attitude.
But in fact, all of us are damaged when huge numbers of our people are
damaged and Americans are in danger when the rest of the world's
population is in danger. There are no perfect candidates. But for
honesty and integrity, I'd choose bernie or Jill over Hillary any day.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Frank
Ventura
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 4:08 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses
Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
Chuck, while I did vote for Sanders in the primary, I am already
regretting it. Sadly, Sanders is starting to sound more and more like
Jill Stein; that is someone who merely wants to derail the democratic
party and put a Republican in the oval office out of some sort of
protest. The sad truth is that after Stein and Sanders get their
jollies with their protest against the mainstream Democratic party
they will go back to their comfy suburban homes and sit back with a
glass of wine; while the rest of us working class suffer the onslaught
of President Trump or President Cruz and all the horrors for our
nation that it has brought. So a year from now when President Trump's
death squads are roaming the streets killing the working class Bernie
and Jill will be sitting back watching it all on Foxnews while their
private security forces guard their nicely manicured lawns.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles
Krugman
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 2:00 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses
Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
Miriam, in 2008 you voted for a typical Chicago politician. Spending
time in Chicago growing up in the sixties I found the political
machine in power fascinating. My problem is that I just don't like or
agree with Bernie Sanders and don't believe he is electable nor does
he possess the image of an American president. While There are lots of
things I didn't like about the Clinton Administration and I believe
that Hillary was an active participant in the decisionmaking process
and since I don't support the extreme principles of third parties I
feel that in this election I'm voting for the lesser of the evils. I
guess that there is still part of me that buys in to the capitalistic
Chuckdiscussion with Thomas Frank this morning on an audio clip on Truthdig.
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Vieni
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 11:43 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses
Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
I live in New York which, probably, will continue to be a blue state.
However, whatever kind of state it is, my vote, if Bernie isn't the
Democratic candidate, will go to Jill Stein. It won't go to Trump and
it won't go to the Clinton machine. In 2008, I thought I was voting
for a Democratic candidate who represented the values in which I
believed. I knew that he was a bit to the right in terms of
Afghanistan, but I tought he was a Liberal Democrat who believed in
the rule of law, in open government. I discovered that I'd voted for
an opportunist, an elitist, for a President who would ignore the
constitution whenever it got in the way of his appeasement of the
security state, of a President who was ready to cut social security
benefits, and who made unacceptable bargains with Republicans before
it was necessary to do so. And he is the more Ppogressive of the two.
If I vote for Hillary, I'd be voting for someone whose Neo Liberal
policies are more warlike, who is even more comfortable with the
elites, who will increase the US appeasement of Israel, whose concern
about African Americans is pure fiction, and who uses her femaleness
as a means to gain support from femininsts. I can't, in good
consciience do it. No, I don't want Trump as President. But the fact
that Clinton uses whatever words , she thinks, will get votes from the
Democratic base, doesn't reassure me. I listened to Robert Sheer's
Are you aware that Bill Clinton was about to privatize social security?is unthinkable.
What stopped him? The Monica Lewinsky scandal. These Democrats, aside
from social issues, LGBT rights, abortion rights, are not anymore the
party of the working people.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles
Krugman (Redacted sender "ckrugman" for DMARC)
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 2:07 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses
Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
whether we might like it or not any vote that doesn't go to Hillary
including those on principle to minor candidates could very strongly
result in the trump presidency that no thinking person wants.
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Vieni
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 8:21 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses
Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
Well, voting for Clinton means voting for more of what we have now
which means more wealth going to the 1%, more power for trans national
corporations, larger even less regulated banks, and an escalation of war.
Voting for trump may very well mean and out and out war at home on
minorities along with what I outlined above. One can't tell what Trump
will actdually do in terms of international policy because his
statements are contradictory. I caught a short interview with the
author of a biography of Trump on NPR last night. Briefly, he said
Trump never reads books, does not focus on one subject when you talk
with him, but thinks just the way he sounds in his speeches, and his
basically and ego maniac, although he didn't use that term. I can't
visualize myself voting for Hillary because I can't think of any
positives in her favor. But certainly, the prospect of a Trump Presidency
Party.
Miriam
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 10:27 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses
Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
As the World turns...so turn firm resolves.
Of course it's early yet, but winning the primary appears to be
slipping from the old, experienced hands of Senator Bernie Sanders.
To date I have held to my resolve to vote for Sanders, and then if he
does not win the Party nomination, to vote for Jill Stein, of the Green
But that was before the Republicans trotted out their Party's Best,integrity.
the Clown Crew.
And, as we all guffawed and chuckled over their noisy sideshow, an
awful thing happened. One of the clowns began to look like something
out of the 1940's. A full blown Fascist!
Ranting and raving and telling one big lie after another, Donald Trump
rose like the Phoenix, out of the ashes of the Third Reich.
Despite the Republican Party's denial that he has the popular Party
support, Trump stomps about, stirring up the rank and file, and
winning in state after state.
We now are upon the brink of National disaster. One direction leads
to a Fascist State, and the other leads to a Corporate State. And we
have only ourselves to blame.
If the choice comes down to Clinton or Trump, or even Clinton or Cruz,
we will need to decide if we hold to our original plan to support
Stein, or to "throw away" our vote in an effort to block the takeover
of our emerging Corporate State by the Fascist State. What a choice!
Just a fair warning that I am not ruling out a vote for Hillary Clinton.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/16/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses Hard Questions For Sanders
Campaign and His Youthful Supporters By Steven Rosenfeld [1] /
AlterNet [2] March 15, 2016 Bernie Sanders' historic and
expectation-surpassing bid for the Democratic presidential nomination
ran into hard reality in several pivotal primary contests Tuesday,
where he could not break Hillary Clinton's hold on voters in several
critical battleground states needed to win in the fall-notably Ohio
and Florida.
While Sanders supporters will point to his narrow victory in
Missouri, and overwhelming support among independents who voted in
the Democratic primary, Clinton's victories in those fall
battleground states-as well as South Carolina and Illinois-means that
it is virtually impossible for Sanders to win the delegates needed
[3] for the party's nomination. That fact undoubtedly will take days
to seep into his remarkable grassroots campaign, where it remains to
be seen how Sanders will continue his quest or align himself with
Clinton-who he's criticized for some stances but praised as a person of
integrity.The backdrop for that as-yet unknown calculation is the deeplyTrump.
disconcerting continuing rise of Donald Trump toward the Republican
nomination, who has continued to amass a delegate lead-winning in
Florida, Illinois, South Carolina and Missouri. Although Ohio Gov.
John Kasich beat Trump in his home state, his first victory on 2016,
his chances-based on the GOP's delegate nomination math-are an even
longer shot than Sanders catching up with Clinton and wresting the
nomination. Under the current Republican National Committee rules, a
candidate needs to have won at least eight states to have their name
placed in nomination for the presidency. That renders Kasich's pledge
to supporters that he will win this fall as little more than campaign
magical thinking.
"Only one campaign has beaten Donald Trump over and over and over again,"
said Sen. Ted Cruz, also striking a defiant tone despite losing in
every state Tuesday, including by several thousand votes in Missouri
to
Cruz recited his pledge to recast the federal government andTuesday's results.
judiciary in the most ideological right-wing mold possible, go after
enemies abroad, and said he was the only alternative to Trump.
"Starting tomorrow morning, there is a clear choice," Cruz said,
posturing before supporters in Texas.
Trump's victory in Florida prompted Marco Rubio to suspend his
campaign, telling his backers that it was not in "God's plans" for
him to win "in
2016
or maybe ever." He also implored Republicans to reject the hateful
politics pedaled by Trump, saying, "I ask the American people, 'Do
not give into the fear. Do not give into the frustration.'"
Tuesday's top two storylines-Trump's rise and Clinton all-but ending
Sanders' chances of winning sufficient delegates to be the
nominee-came together in her remarks, where she underscored that she
had won fair and square but tried to reach out to Sanders' team. "Our
campaign has won more votes than any other campaign-Democrat or
Republican," began Clinton, in remarks from Palm Beach, "and I want
to congratulate Sen. Sanders for the vigorous campaign he has waged."
Clinton said she needed the support of Democrats across the country,
and then focused on Trump but cited many issues raised by Sanders.
"Tonight, it is clearer than ever that this may be one of the most
consequential campaigns of our lifetimes," she said. "The next
president will walk into the oval office next year in January, and
sit down at that desk, and start making decisions that will affect
the lives and the livelihoods of everyone in this country and indeed,
everyone on this planet."
Clinton said the next president has three major challenges: making
positive differences in people's lives, keeping America safe and
bringing the country together. The first example she gave was a
direct nod to Sanders and his popularity with voters under age 35.
"Young people across America struggling under the weight of student
debt find it difficult to imagine the futures they want," she said,
"and they deserve a president who will relieve them of that burden
and help future generations go to college without borrowing a dime."
Clinton continued with another issue that he raised first. "And you
know grandparents who worry about retirement deserve a president who
will protect and then expand Social Security for those who need it
most-not cut or privatize it."
Her to-do list continued: affordable child care; paid family leave;
equal pay for equal work for women; good jobs with rising incomes-in
construction, manufacturing, small business and renewable energy;
standing up for workers and the middle class-"not China, not Wall
Street and not overpaid corporate executives." She said that she
knows how to make these promises become realities, and then slammed
Trump, especially his anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim stances, and his
embrace of torture and threatening adversaries.
"That doesn't make him strong, it makes him wrong," she said.
"We have to take on all forms of inequality and discrimination,"
Clinton said. "Together, we have to defend all of our rights-civil
rights and voting rights; worker's rights and women's rights; LGBT
rights and rights for people with disabilities. And that starts with
standing with President Obama when he nominates a justice to the
Supreme Court."
Whether or not Sanders' supporters will buy Clinton's words and see
how much he has sharpened her embrace and articulation of a
progressive agenda remains to be seen. There is no doubt that the
short-term messaging from the Sanders' campaign will be that they
will keep plowing ahead and fight for delegates in the remaining
states. As of Tuesday, half the states have voted. The math has
Clinton with 300 more [3] pledged delegates than Sanders. That is not
counting super-delegates, the elected officers and party officials,
where she has 427 to his 26 [3]. Sanders reportedly spent
$12 million in ads for Tuesday's contests, compared to Clinton's $7
million.
Many of Sanders' supporters have not been involved in political
campaigns before, and will have a hard time immediately processing
But there are some big unanswered questions about what is next fortogether.
them in 2016-and what Clinton will also do to bring these two
campaigns
Sanders has taken positions that appeal to the disaffected voters whoCitizen's Guide to Voting"
have been drawn in by Trump and Cruz. One can only hope that the
Democratic Party knows it will need the millions of young economic
progressives to turn out in November. And they may not unless they
have a candidate they can believe in.
Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet,
including America's retirement crisis, democracy and voting rights,
and campaigns and elections. He is the author of "Count My Vote: A
(AlterNet Books, 2008).
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Campaign and His Youthful Supporters By Steven Rosenfeld [1] /
AlterNet [2] March 15, 2016 Bernie Sanders' historic and
expectation-surpassing bid for the Democratic presidential nomination
ran into hard reality in several pivotal primary contests Tuesday,
where he could not break Hillary Clinton's hold on voters in several
critical battleground states needed to win in the fall-notably Ohio
and Florida.
While Sanders supporters will point to his narrow victory in
Missouri, and overwhelming support among independents who voted in
the Democratic primary, Clinton's victories in those fall
battleground states-as well as South Carolina and Illinois-means that
it is virtually impossible for Sanders to win the delegates needed
[3] for the party's nomination. That fact undoubtedly will take days
to seep into his remarkable grassroots campaign, where it remains to
be seen how Sanders will continue his quest or align himself with
Clinton-who he's criticized for some stances but praised as a person of
The backdrop for that as-yet unknown calculation is the deeplyTrump.
disconcerting continuing rise of Donald Trump toward the Republican
nomination, who has continued to amass a delegate lead-winning in
Florida, Illinois, South Carolina and Missouri. Although Ohio Gov.
John Kasich beat Trump in his home state, his first victory on 2016,
his chances-based on the GOP's delegate nomination math-are an even
longer shot than Sanders catching up with Clinton and wresting the
nomination. Under the current Republican National Committee rules, a
candidate needs to have won at least eight states to have their name
placed in nomination for the presidency. That renders Kasich's pledge
to supporters that he will win this fall as little more than campaign
magical thinking.
"Only one campaign has beaten Donald Trump over and over and over again,"
said Sen. Ted Cruz, also striking a defiant tone despite losing in
every state Tuesday, including by several thousand votes in Missouri
to
Cruz recited his pledge to recast the federal government andTuesday's results.
judiciary in the most ideological right-wing mold possible, go after
enemies abroad, and said he was the only alternative to Trump.
"Starting tomorrow morning, there is a clear choice," Cruz said,
posturing before supporters in Texas.
Trump's victory in Florida prompted Marco Rubio to suspend his
campaign, telling his backers that it was not in "God's plans" for
him to win "in
2016
or maybe ever." He also implored Republicans to reject the hateful
politics pedaled by Trump, saying, "I ask the American people, 'Do
not give into the fear. Do not give into the frustration.'"
Tuesday's top two storylines-Trump's rise and Clinton all-but ending
Sanders' chances of winning sufficient delegates to be the
nominee-came together in her remarks, where she underscored that she
had won fair and square but tried to reach out to Sanders' team. "Our
campaign has won more votes than any other campaign-Democrat or
Republican," began Clinton, in remarks from Palm Beach, "and I want
to congratulate Sen. Sanders for the vigorous campaign he has waged."
Clinton said she needed the support of Democrats across the country,
and then focused on Trump but cited many issues raised by Sanders.
"Tonight, it is clearer than ever that this may be one of the most
consequential campaigns of our lifetimes," she said. "The next
president will walk into the oval office next year in January, and
sit down at that desk, and start making decisions that will affect
the lives and the livelihoods of everyone in this country and indeed,
everyone on this planet."
Clinton said the next president has three major challenges: making
positive differences in people's lives, keeping America safe and
bringing the country together. The first example she gave was a
direct nod to Sanders and his popularity with voters under age 35.
"Young people across America struggling under the weight of student
debt find it difficult to imagine the futures they want," she said,
"and they deserve a president who will relieve them of that burden
and help future generations go to college without borrowing a dime."
Clinton continued with another issue that he raised first. "And you
know grandparents who worry about retirement deserve a president who
will protect and then expand Social Security for those who need it
most-not cut or privatize it."
Her to-do list continued: affordable child care; paid family leave;
equal pay for equal work for women; good jobs with rising incomes-in
construction, manufacturing, small business and renewable energy;
standing up for workers and the middle class-"not China, not Wall
Street and not overpaid corporate executives." She said that she
knows how to make these promises become realities, and then slammed
Trump, especially his anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim stances, and his
embrace of torture and threatening adversaries.
"That doesn't make him strong, it makes him wrong," she said.
"We have to take on all forms of inequality and discrimination,"
Clinton said. "Together, we have to defend all of our rights-civil
rights and voting rights; worker's rights and women's rights; LGBT
rights and rights for people with disabilities. And that starts with
standing with President Obama when he nominates a justice to the
Supreme Court."
Whether or not Sanders' supporters will buy Clinton's words and see
how much he has sharpened her embrace and articulation of a
progressive agenda remains to be seen. There is no doubt that the
short-term messaging from the Sanders' campaign will be that they
will keep plowing ahead and fight for delegates in the remaining
states. As of Tuesday, half the states have voted. The math has
Clinton with 300 more [3] pledged delegates than Sanders. That is not
counting super-delegates, the elected officers and party officials,
where she has 427 to his 26 [3]. Sanders reportedly spent
$12 million in ads for Tuesday's contests, compared to Clinton's $7
million.
Many of Sanders' supporters have not been involved in political
campaigns before, and will have a hard time immediately processing
But there are some big unanswered questions about what is next fortogether.
them in 2016-and what Clinton will also do to bring these two
campaigns
Sanders has taken positions that appeal to the disaffected voters whoCitizen's Guide to Voting"
have been drawn in by Trump and Cruz. One can only hope that the
Democratic Party knows it will need the millions of young economic
progressives to turn out in November. And they may not unless they
have a candidate they can believe in.
Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet,
including America's retirement crisis, democracy and voting rights,
and campaigns and elections. He is the author of "Count My Vote: A
(AlterNet Books, 2008).
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