{"id":44422,"date":"2016-07-27T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=44422"},"modified":"2016-07-27T17:44:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T21:44:40","slug":"jill-stein-states-what-bernie-refused-to-say-its-time-to-challenge-the-mic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=44422","title":{"rendered":"Jill Stein States What Bernie Refused To Say: It&#8217;s Time To Challenge The MIC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Ferndale, WA<br \/>\nJuly 27, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>The Sanders sell-out to the corrupt Hillary campaign ended as many of us hoped:<br \/>\nwith a powerful protest by many of his most ardent supporters who walked out<br \/>\nof the Convention after her nomination.<\/p>\n<p>As these Berniacs merged outside with Black Lives Matters marchers, they<br \/>\ncaught site of Green Party Presidential nominee, Jill Stein.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thiscantbehappening.net\/node\/3246\">http:\/\/thiscantbehappening.net\/node\/3246<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She spoke to the assembled group urging them to continue the Sanders<br \/>\nRevolution by building on the momentum his candidacy represented and<br \/>\nto shift their allegiance to the Green Party.<\/p>\n<p>She articulated how the Greens are a purer form of what Bernie stood for,<br \/>\nuncontaminated by the corrupt baggage of the Clintons and the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, she showed a willingness to challenge the <em>Military-Industrial Complex<\/em> and our failed foreign policy that is &#8220;nothing more than a marketing\u00a0strategy for the weapons industry!&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/thiscantbehappening.net\/node\/3246?page=3\">http:\/\/thiscantbehappening.net\/node\/3246?page=3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are words Sanders was unwilling and unable to state because he has<br \/>\nalways been part of the establishment as a closet neocon who allowed the<br \/>\nF-35 to be manufactured\u00a0in Vermont and who backed all the wars either overtly or<br \/>\nindirectly, despite his one vote to oppose the invasion of Iraq by Bush in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what everyone has thought up to now that it was either Hillary or<br \/>\nTrump, a clear choice for all those disaffected independents, libertarians,<br \/>\nBerniacs and others does exist. There is a third option besides staying<br \/>\nhome, spitting at the tv or writing in the name of Mickey Mouse.<\/p>\n<p>Stein represents what I have called the American Peace Party. There are<br \/>\nfeatures of the Green Party I am reluctant to endorse. But compared to<br \/>\nthe two corrupt existing parties with their policies of unending wars, it is<br \/>\nclose enough to what I envision for me to be encouraged by their efforts.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And make no mistake about it: this is one election where our votes really<br \/>\nmatter. Please make your voice heard and say no to all the corruption,<br \/>\nlies and illegal wars perpetrated in our name by Bush, Clinton, Obama<br \/>\nand the two parties they represent. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=44097\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=44097<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}