Jill: Well,
let me ask you this. Two reasons. Who in there right mind, for one thing,
thought that Mubarak who had been there for 40 years and had all the power of
the military behind him--who thought that a bunch of young people getting out
and demanding it, was going to unseat his military government? They were up
against an even steeper wall than we are. So, I would say I'm not holding my
breath that we're going to win the office, but I'm not ruling it out either.
And I think it's really important to go forward and have this conversation
focusing on the issues that we need to be focused on and we allow ourselves, I
think, to be sabotaged here again by the PR spin, by the political establishment
that does not want us to talk about the issues where they've lost it. They
don't want us to talk about the issues. They only want us to talk about the
horse race, so they try to cut us off at the pass by getting us focused on this
David and Goliath horse race. But that gets to my other reason, which is that
it's not only that we are the severe, extreme underdog here in the election.
It's that American voters are the extreme underdog when it comes to jobs, when
it comes to having a living, a wage that will support a family, because those
wages are going down and are inadequate already; when it comes to having health
care that we can afford. We know the Affordable Care Act isn't it. I live with
it here in Massachusetts. It's not affordable and it doesn't provide complete
care. It's the same crises here in Massachusetts that it was before. We know
that home owners are in absolute crisis. There are 6 to 7 million of them that
have already been thrown out of their homes and here are at least that many in the
pipeline and nothing has been done. Looking at the economy and the disaster
that's around the corner when the European banks crash, is that going to bring
us right back down to where we have recovered from?
Rob: /
We have two minutes left.
Jill: So,
the point here is that, yes, the playing field is severely tilted but we're in
really good company because we're all underdogs. As Alice Walker says, "The
biggest way people give up power is by not knowing they have it to start with."
We do have the power. This is about standing up, asserting that power and
starting to move as far and fast as we possibly can, now that it is perfectly,
completely evident that neither establishment party, has the capability, the
will or the insight to fix this for us. Let's stop accelerating our decline and
start to turn this around.
Rob: This
is the Rob Kall Bottom up Radio Show
WNJC 1360 AM. I've been speaking with Jill Stein, Green Party Presidential
candidate. Jill, to wrap this up, what can listeners and readers who want to
support third party politics or you, do?
Jill: I
suggest you go to our website because we are going to be the one truly national
campaign in this race that is not bought and paid for by Wall Street.
Rob: And
the website is?
Jill: The
website is JillStein, J-i-l-l S-t-e-i-n dot org and we have a whole volunteer
page. You can contribute. Every dollar you contribute will be doubled. We're in
the process now of qualifying for federal matching funds. We have qualified.
We're waiting for the approval. Your money will be doubled if you contribute
within the next six weeks or so--
Rob: /
Great, so that's all--
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