When
the liberal class heard news media report Donald Trump won the
Electoral College vote, numerous people experienced meltdowns that
involved blaming anyone and everyone but Hillary Clinton’s
presidential campaign. In particular, Green Party presidential
candidate Jill Stein was one of the targets, even though the math did
not point to Stein as a culprit for the outcome.
“Unauthorized
Disclosure” returns with an interview with Jill Stein
Some
key points by Stein:
When you
look at the numbers, we got something like three seconds of primetime
network TV for I think it’s like 1700 minutes that Donald Trump
got. Or to put it a different way, Donald Trump got about 35,000
times as much free airtime on mainstream media. Hillary got something
like 20,000 times as much. So, it was good. It was an improvement
compared to prior campaigns.
Clearly,
nowhere where near where we need to go. It was a beginning, and I
think the consequence of that is that we earned three times as many
votes as we earned in the past election. That is, in 2012 itself
doubled our count from the prior election. I think the overall result
of this election, which is basically a very dangerous and
discouraging outcome, that is with the victory of Donald Trump. I
think in a way that reflects how much this system is ready to change,
and we can talk about that more later. But to my mind that’s a big
victory in and of itself.
One
other area I think that for me is especially exciting is that we
really established strong alliances with social movements in this
campaign, and in particular, with people who are the very powerful
spokes men and women for those movements. And that includes
solidarity with the Standing Rock movement, having been the only
presidential candidate to go there and to actually participate in
civil disobedience along with these indigenous leaders. With the
Black Lives Matter campaign, and in particular, we were present in
Baton Rouge at the flooding. We participated in many of the protests
against police violence, marched with the mothers, so-called Million
Moms March in Washington, DC. You know, stood strong with the Muslim
community.
75
percent of voters were screaming to open it up to the other two
candidates, that is to Gary Johnson and myself. We’ll be working
with voters of all stripes but also with many of the grassroots
libertarians. So there’s just really exciting initiatives and
momentums that are ready to go now.
I have
to say from my point of view I’ve really seen a system in meltdown.
And I say this as a medical doctor, having seen the healthcare system
collapse, having seen the incredible misery that people are in,
having seen jobless and under employment. And especially the misery
of an entire generation that is really locked into hopelessness right
now without decent jobs, without the ability to get out of college
debt, without the ability to have their own place, without the
ability to start a family and have kids, really having been denied
the essence of reproductive freedom. This is a generation that cannot
have a family. It’s just staggering with few exceptions, but many
people are being denied that now.
When
we’re divided into a thousand separate movements each based on our
own identity or our own biggest need, we are divided and conquered.
But now so many people are being absolutely slammed across the
spectrum of justice, it creates a potential for a very powerful
coalition. This is a coalition that we have seen in the making for
quite some time. I want to mention along those lines that there is a
political coalition called Left Elect, which brings together the many
small parties of resistance and that we will be having a conference
this spring. I believe it’s in March this year.
I think
it is a very positive sign that so many from the Bernie campaign woke
up the minute Bernie endorsed Hillary, and the floodgates opened into
our campaign. I think this has a lot to do with why our vote numbers
tripled, why we are growing Green Party chapters all over the
country, where the party had really gone into dormancy. It’s now
awake and alive and kicking all across the country.
Let’s
reject this lesser evil and the greater evil. Let’s fight for the
greater good like our lives depend on it because they do. We can do
that knowing that, in fact, when we stand together, we not only have
the vision, the values, and the solution. We have the numbers that we
need to take our future back, and make it work—an America that
works for all of us and a world that works for all of us. The power
to do that is still in our hands.
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