The Socialist Party USA is a social democrat party.
On 4/4/2016 7:45 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:
Social Democratic Party? I would be interested but I can’t say for sure that I would join in a heartbeat. I would have to listen to their plans for success in addition to just the party platform.
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He joined the Party for what that is worth Chuck! He is running in the Democratic Party.
By the way both Parties have welcomed "defectors" from the other Party. For example, Republicans took in a swath of Southern Democratts from Thurmond to Graham and many of them ran as Republicans in their primaries.
Democrats welcomed in folks like Arlen Spector even recently.
This said, and while Irespect you highly I disagree with your core contentions. I simply disagree.
I vote, and organize, personally not on Party loyalty, but rather on issues.
While by far the bulk of folks I've worked for from John Glenn, to Tom Harkin, to Obama in presidential campaigns were/are Democrats I have been known to pull the lever for members of other parties especially if my local or state Democrats were proven to be corrupt and against ourinterests.
Oh, I almost forgot my active support and my role as a Democratic Party state delegate while I was 19 for McGovern.
Forgive the ramble but often the Party or individuals within it haven't been loyal to us, and most especially those of us with disabilities.
Now, I'm not per say a third party guy in most cases but I've sure been known to vote Green or even some other party in protest as a sort of a vote for "none of the above".
And I'll tell you their is a social democratic wing in the Democratic Party. And if they split off and created a third party I'd join it in a heartbeat.
But, on this you might disagree with me.
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The issue is that technically Sanders does not claim to be a
Democrat. He is registered as an “independent” Senator although he
caucuses with the democrats. I feel let down by the Democratic
party because it has allowed Sanders to take over as an
independent and as a long standing party member I strongly believe
that does make a difference. This is why I say that I feel let
down by the Democratic party as this undermines party membership
and loyalty. For those of you who are members of third parties
would you be satisfied if an outsider someone who might be an ally
on some issues is given carte blanch opportunities to run without
actually being a party member? I believe that it is rationale like
this that causes us to get stuck with “top Two” primaries like we
now have shoved down our throats in California.
Chuck
Chuck
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Chuck,
I seem to be missing messages, so I only saw yours now below
Frank’s reply.
I copy from your message:
"I feel that as a loyal longstanding Democrat I have been let down
by the democratic party when they gave him a carte blanche pass to
run and say whatever he wants. While I sympathize with people who
are struggling economically I don't think that Bernie Sanders is
the answer”
You feel let down by the Democratic Party because they allowed a
candidate to speak his outh without muzzling him or otherwise
dictating what he is allowed to say, restricting what he can
declare his platform to be? I don’t understand that.
If Sanders does not provide the possibility of an answer to the
things he has outlined as big problems, in his candidacy, where do
you think any other possibility lies?
And, another question, if he is indeed still technically an
independent in Vermont, so what? And I do believe he is the
Democratic senator from Vermont, but you may be aware of some
technical detail that I”ve missed…
Alice
On Mar 29, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Frank Ventura
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Chuck, while my heart wants to disagree with you my head
reluctantly acknowledges that you probably are correct.
Frank
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Supporters
Well Frank, this is how I've always felt about Bernie and
Jill. While Sanders has caucused with the democrats in the
Senate he is still technically registered as an independent in
Vermont as I understand it. I feel that as a loyal
longstanding Democrat I have been let down by the democratic
party when they gave him a carte blanche pass to run and say
whatever he wants. While I sympathize with people who are
struggling economically I don't think that Bernie Sanders is
the answer.
Chuck
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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
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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 mentality.
Chuck
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Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 11:43 AM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night
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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 discussion with
Thomas Frank this morning on an audio clip on Truthdig. Are
you aware that Bill Clinton was about to privatize social
security? 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
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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
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Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 8:21 AM
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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 is unthinkable.
Miriam
Miriam
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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 Party.
But that was before the Republicans trotted out their Party's
Best, 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
<mailto:miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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Trump and
Clinton's Big Night Poses Hard Questions For Sanders
Campaign and His
Youthful Supporters ________________________________________
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
deeply
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
Trump.
Cruz recited his pledge to recast the federal government
and 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
Tuesday's results.
But there are some big unanswered questions about what is
next for
them in 2016-and what Clinton will also do to bring these two
campaigns
together.
Sanders has taken positions that appeal to the disaffected
voters who
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
Citizen's Guide to Voting"
(AlterNet Books, 2008).
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Campaign and His
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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
deeply
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
Trump.
Cruz recited his pledge to recast the federal government
and 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
Tuesday's results.
But there are some big unanswered questions about what is
next for
them in 2016-and what Clinton will also do to bring these two
campaigns
together.
Sanders has taken positions that appeal to the disaffected
voters who
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
Citizen's Guide to Voting"
(AlterNet Books, 2008).
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