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Bernie broke my heart, but Dr. Jill Stein heals the wound.

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Her solution to this type of political sellout is one that will make both Democrats and Republicans recoil like a dirty dog about to be neutered. "We need to hold our elected officials accountable, who are actually betraying the American public and systematically dismantling your democracy. They should be run out of town. They should be challenged. They should be not only challenged in elections; they should be subject to recall elections."

Jill on ballot access restriction to GOP and DNC"

I asked Jill about ballot access laws. Right now, according to the constitution, both parties claim each state can decide who gains ballot access. Presently the Democrats and Republicans receive automatic ballot placement, while anyone else must 'qualify'. Shouldn't the laws governing ballot access require uniform compliance over the present preferred status dished out to the GOP and the DNC? Isn't the present system little more than a license to discriminate?

"I think there needs to be a level playing field, and simply being a part of this predatory establishment should not buy you a pass to automatically getting on the ballot. So there should be a reasonable threshold that is applied equally across the board and that could either be mandated at the national level or there could be guidelines provided at the national level, and allow the states to make their own rules. Right now it is a thinly disguised campaign to silence the voice of political opposition."

Jill on terrorism"

Dr. Stein, let's talk about your platform provisions regarding foreign policy; specifically the balance between fighting terrorism and restoration of human rights in accordance with the international declaration of human rights.

"Well fortunately there's no real conflict here. We can only make progress against so called terrorism if we are also respecting human rights... And I think the elephant in the room here is the fact that we cannot simultaneously fight terrorism, and have the U.S. and our Allies fund terrorism, arm terrorism, and train terrorism.

This is basically a marketing strategy for the war profiteers. They're the ones who are making out like bandits here, while we are applying a flamethrower to the Middle East."

"The other day John Brennan said that this is not working. ISIS is worse than Al Qaida in spite of all we've done. Well, in fact Al Qaida was worse than the Taliban, and the Mujahideen, and we can follow this back, to where the CIA and the Saudis began this terrorist enterprise, as a means of disrupting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

This is been a massive and catastrophic failure. It cost us six trillion dollars--that's $75,000 per American household, since the twin towers came down. What do we have to show for it; failed states, mass refugee immigration, and worse terrorist threats. We need a weapons embargo and we need a freeze on the funding of those countries that continue to fund terrorism.

We need to be in this race, because it will not be challenged from the political parties that are funded by the war profiteers."

Jill on program affordability"

Once again, I asked about those who claim we can't afford these programs.

"Actually these programs pay for themselves so the Green New Deal, for example, will create 20,000,000 jobs to create the Green Energy Transition. By getting rid of pollution, we actually get so much healthier--less asthma, cancers, heart attacks and strokes in particular--the savings in healthcare alone are enough to pay for the clean energy transition. That pays for itself.

Secondly when you have 100 percent clean renewable energy and we aim to achieve that, at least by 2030; then you cannot justify and you do not need the wars for oil, so we don't need 1000 bases in over 100 countries around the world; we don't need to be fighting these wars which have cost us six trillion dollars over the last 15 years.

The bottom line is that we can cut the military budget, which is not making us safer--it's making us less safe. The savings there amount to hundreds of billions of dollars per year."

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Jeanine Molloff is an online journalist who has published with Buzzflash, OpEdNews, Huffington Post, UK Progressive, Eurasia Review, Truthout and others. She produces the Sunday show on Progressive News Network, in addition to the Environmental (more...)
 

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