Jill Stein Isn't Sorry
The Green Party candidate has no regrets, even as Democrats accuse her of helping elect Donald Trump and cozying up to Vladimir Putin.
By BEN SCHRECKINGER June 20, 2017
Had a few thousand votes in key Midwestern states gone to Hillary Clinton instead of Jill Stein, many on the left believe, America might be having a very different conversation today.
Instead, Democrats are still fuming about the role the Green Party nominee may have played in electing Donald Trump—who as president has celebrated the coal industry, promised to pull the United States out of the world’s most important climate agreement and refused to even say whether he believes global warming is real. All of that should be anathema to a party whose founding principles include a commitment to “ecological wisdom.”
So does Stein, with the benefit of hindsight, have any regrets? “I don’t think so,” she tells me by phone from her home in Lexington, Massachusetts. Decrying “fake news,” citing the “sabotage of Bernie Sanders” and talking up the “tremendous” campaign she could have run with more money, Stein is projecting a Trump-worthy level of defiance. “I consider it a great honor that the party and our prior campaign for president is suddenly being attacked outside of an election season,” she says.
Those attacks aren’t merely sour grapes from a party still reeling from its stunning defeat in November. Some Democrats would like to see Stein hauled in front of Congress to explain mysteries like what, exactly, she was doing at a 2015 Moscow gala thrown by a Russian state-owned broadcaster—the same RT event that got Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, in such trouble.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/20/jill-stein-green-party-no-regrets-2016-215281
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that the Green Party always seems to make the biggest push for the Presidency after 8 years of Democrats in the WH? It's now happened twice in recent history that the Greens adversely affected a Presidential election and tilted it towards the Republicans, once following Bill Clinton and now again following Barack Obama. It can't be a coincidence, can it? And both times out there with pretty much the same messaging: Democrats aren't any better than the Republicans, can't be trusted any more than Republicans, no voting for "lesser of two evils", electing an awful Republican will lead to a massive progressive revolution, etc. I'm not particularly big on conspiracy theories but it seems like the Greens exist for little more reason than to serve as spoilers, throwing elections to the Republicans, either intentionally or unintentionally. Stein's attendance at a dinner gala with Putin in 2015 makes her involvement in last year's race for the WH even more fishy IMHO. Democrats never seem to be able to win a third consecutive term for POTUS and, while there are certainly some Republican factors to blame, it just seems weird that Republicans haven't been able to make a Democratic President a one-term President since Jimmy Carter but they're able to win right after a two-term Democratic President and the last two instances have been under highly suspicious circumstances to boot. And the Greens have been right there as well. I just wonder...........Is it just me?
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