Goodman writes: "You may have noticed that the Green Party presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, was absent from the 'town hall' presidential debate at Hofstra University the other night."
ill Stein and Cheri Honkala, the Green presidential and vice-presidential nominees, were forcibly prevented from entering the grounds of tonight's presidential debate organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). (photo: Green Party)
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1. The enormous inequality of wealth that has occurred within our country during the past few decades, as well as the causes of this growing disparity and its effect on our democracy.
2. Proven scientific facts about global warming and related extreme weather conditions affecting our entire planet, as well as sober mitigation efforts. This very serious threat gets far more media attention in foreign countries than it gets in the United States.
3. The extent to which our country's God-given soils and air are being poisoned by toxic products, insufficiently controlled, that continue to generate profits for large corporations.
4. The fact that our drones are killing innocent bystanders in foreign countries, and that our bloated military budget is consuming funds that could be used for education, social programs and the improvement of our deteriorating infrastructures.
Debates on these topics would be much more in keeping with the values that most Americans cherish.
Changing the PH of the oceans such that shellfish cannot create shells and krill and other crustaceans cannot develop normally can have huge effects of countries that rely on harvesting food from the seas ... this is really scary.
There are numerous suggestions for a new system that would assist in organizing a country as large and the U.S. It would entail a huge effort, but would be worth it. Sadly, Americans are deeply schooled in the present system and all the mythology included. Breaking traditions that are crumbling anyway is preferable to caving in to corporate and corrupt takeovers of an antiquated system.
There is no way to truly represent all citizens in a country this large with a population of size, without getting rid of a system that excludes half the population.
Perhaps -just perhaps- if he and Stein's Greens formed some kind of coalition they might just have a more critical mass to get on more ballots and if we shouted loudly enough, to the national debate.
Hell George Galloway's "Respect" party actually won the Bethnal Green seat in the early Blair Years of "New (as in more rightist and deeply compromised) Labor" after he was kicked out of that mockery of it's title for his strong socialist stance. All the European and other nations have several parties across the political spectrum which present broader more diverse perspectives, as well as equal press time and spending ceilings, so that extremes in one direction or other are headed off by statute.
Stein and Anderson between them provide strong voices for the issues the main candidates are skillfully avoiding, especially environmental, social justice and realistic stances on health care, also recognizing that there is poverty in the "Middle Class" USA.
And get rid of the wildly impractical mockery called Electoral College, which is based on the amount of slaves the early, limited in number master-power-cl asses owned that gave them a vote per so many slave bodies owned.
What a concept for thge 20th and 21st centuries, eh?!
why blame romney?
It seems like it would be even more impossible to get anything done in debates with more people ... or maybe the inclusion of some new ideas would spark the two deadbeat mainstream party candidates to get off their asses and explain their agendas.
God I am so sick and tired of our politics in this country, meaning I am sick and tired of people thinking they benefit from this Republican police state.
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