There Is A Third Candidate
By James Donahue
When interviewed by CBS News last week, a focus group of Republican and Democratic voters in Florida let it be known they are opposed to supporting either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump as our next president.
They pointed out Trump’s radical, inconsistent and racial statements and Clinton’s history of possible illegal activity during her husband’s presidency and while serving as U.S. Secretary of State. They said they wanted a third party or a third viable candidate from established parties.
Florida, a state laced with retired folks who usually always vote, is considered an important swing state during presidential election years. What the people say in Florida is a good indication of what people all over the country are thinking. Somebody should be paying attention.
It is not surprising that CBS, a corporate owned news agency, did not point out that both third party and third viable Democratic Party candidates are out there, they are campaigning for the job, and their names will be on the ballot either in looming primary elections or in the November Presidential elections.
The candidates most Americans seek . . . in case you have forgotten . . . are Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is running hard against Clinton, and Dr. Jill Stein, a Green Party candidate. Both Sanders and Stein are advocating green energy, an improved health and education system and a complete revamping of our nation’s broken government.
Notice how the media is going out of its way to ignore both candidates. Sanders, who is drawing giant crowds where ever he speaks, is being virtually cut off from news stories. News reports are all about Trump and Clinton. We believe this is because both Trump and Clinton are accepting large cash donations of campaign money from the big carbon-based fuel industries. In their campaign talks and even in public debate, the subject of global warming and green energy is ignored. And this is the most important issue facing the nation and the world today.
We need a president (and supporting legislature) in 2017 that is willing to take the bull by the horns, so-to-speak and run with it. We need to make a radical shift away from carbon and nuclear power and start building green energy systems, rebuild our nation’s railways and people-moving systems, rebuild our broken infrastructure (especially those old lead-leaching water lines) and stop spending all of our tax dollars on a bulging industrial military complex that is no longer needed.
We also need the wealthy corporations and individuals in the U.S. to start paying their share of the tax load.
For now at our house, we are still rooting for Sanders. If he fails to get the Democratic nomination, we will be voting for Stein in November. Because the media is ignoring her we know she probably doesn’t have a snowball’s chance to get elected to the nation’s high office. Most voters will wonder who she is when they see her name on the ballot in November. We hope, however, that she will get enough votes to give the Green Party a solid place on the election platform the next time around.
(If we even have a next time around.)
People need to turn off their television sets and start paying attention to what is really going on in America. Our nation desperately needs a new third party. Stein’s Green Party looks like a great solution.
By James Donahue
When interviewed by CBS News last week, a focus group of Republican and Democratic voters in Florida let it be known they are opposed to supporting either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump as our next president.
They pointed out Trump’s radical, inconsistent and racial statements and Clinton’s history of possible illegal activity during her husband’s presidency and while serving as U.S. Secretary of State. They said they wanted a third party or a third viable candidate from established parties.
Florida, a state laced with retired folks who usually always vote, is considered an important swing state during presidential election years. What the people say in Florida is a good indication of what people all over the country are thinking. Somebody should be paying attention.
It is not surprising that CBS, a corporate owned news agency, did not point out that both third party and third viable Democratic Party candidates are out there, they are campaigning for the job, and their names will be on the ballot either in looming primary elections or in the November Presidential elections.
The candidates most Americans seek . . . in case you have forgotten . . . are Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is running hard against Clinton, and Dr. Jill Stein, a Green Party candidate. Both Sanders and Stein are advocating green energy, an improved health and education system and a complete revamping of our nation’s broken government.
Notice how the media is going out of its way to ignore both candidates. Sanders, who is drawing giant crowds where ever he speaks, is being virtually cut off from news stories. News reports are all about Trump and Clinton. We believe this is because both Trump and Clinton are accepting large cash donations of campaign money from the big carbon-based fuel industries. In their campaign talks and even in public debate, the subject of global warming and green energy is ignored. And this is the most important issue facing the nation and the world today.
We need a president (and supporting legislature) in 2017 that is willing to take the bull by the horns, so-to-speak and run with it. We need to make a radical shift away from carbon and nuclear power and start building green energy systems, rebuild our nation’s railways and people-moving systems, rebuild our broken infrastructure (especially those old lead-leaching water lines) and stop spending all of our tax dollars on a bulging industrial military complex that is no longer needed.
We also need the wealthy corporations and individuals in the U.S. to start paying their share of the tax load.
For now at our house, we are still rooting for Sanders. If he fails to get the Democratic nomination, we will be voting for Stein in November. Because the media is ignoring her we know she probably doesn’t have a snowball’s chance to get elected to the nation’s high office. Most voters will wonder who she is when they see her name on the ballot in November. We hope, however, that she will get enough votes to give the Green Party a solid place on the election platform the next time around.
(If we even have a next time around.)
People need to turn off their television sets and start paying attention to what is really going on in America. Our nation desperately needs a new third party. Stein’s Green Party looks like a great solution.