Green Party Presidential Candidate: Two-Party System "Like an Abusive Relationship"
After Jill Stein campaigned in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago, Snellville Patch followed up to discuss her platform and plans for moving forward.
Jill Stein, a Massachussets physician, teacher and mother with a long history of activism and political engagement, is running for president on the Green party ticket. She believes that people are simply not happy with the choices they are currently being offered in the November election, and that this is the year to elect a third party candidate. “The voices of ordinary people are locked out of the two-party system,” she said in a recent interview with Snellville Patch, “which is by and for the lobbyists and wealthy campaign contributors.” Her running mate, Cheri Honkala, is visiting a tent city outside of the Republican National Convention called Romneyville, a tribute to Hooverville, a popular name for tent cities set up by unemployed …
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2:14 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012
There is little prospect of a good result of this election. Democrats are delusional about what the Obama administration has accomplished and what it has damaged while Republicans are delusional about the benefits of tax cuts, deregulation and their social policies. Both camps are more combative and vaguely paranoid than anything seen in U.S. politics since the McCarthy era. Obama is more likely … more ›