The Dictator In Waiting: Jill Stein's Creepy Look At The Future

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The Dictator In Waiting: Jill Stein's Creepy Look At The Future
The Dictator In Waiting: Jill Stein's Creepy Look At The Future

In 2012, the Green Party received a total of 714 votes in the state of Kansas. This time around, however, Green Party candidate Jill Stein looked to change that, and she started with an appearance in Lawrence, Kansas on the first Saturday of July.

The Green Party had already missed the cutoff to get on the ballot in Kansas, and they would need to certify more than 5,000 signatures by August 2, an uphill challenge, but Kansas, for whatever reason, seemed like the place for Jill Stein to go in order to raise attention to her issues.

In a very white room — very few persons of color present — Stein presented her vision of the future, and for progressives everywhere, the proposed Stein imperial presidency combined moments of “that’s what I want” with a creepy realization that the manner proposed bordered on creating a national dictator.

Stein offered many proposals that kept the audience enthralled with a future Green party future — an end to student debt! A full recall of all troops globally, an end to NAFTA, an end to Citizen’s United, full access to healthcare everywhere! These solutions were greeted with a smattering of applause and some cheers.

When pressed on how these items could be accomplished with a divided congress, though, Stein began to offer a similar response: executive action. Stein listed a large number of items that would need to be changed, from abandoning numerous treaties, bank regulations, student debt and access to clinics. All of them, in the end, would come down to executive action. “We cannot just wait to do the right thing” offered Stein. Outside of the constitutional problems with such action (Youngstown Co. V Sawyer stands out), her proposals offered no longterm protections that a future president wouldn’t simply revoke all of her EOs.

Stein began to take questions and answers; but stopped short when she received her first question. Brooklynne Mosley, Bernie Sanders campaign staff in Kansas, a black woman, asked Stein’s opinion on vaccines and preventative medicine. Instead of answering the question, Stein’s sole staffer “shushed” Ms. Mosley, saying she should “read the platform” and that her statement was incorrect and would not be answered. A nice way to treat the only person of color in the room.

Stein was asked another question before exiting: if given so much power, how do you prevent the president from becoming a dictator? What actions of the presidency could go too far? Rather than answer, Stein offered a response that Bernie supporters and those who wanted “real Democracy” would need to put political pressure on the USSC in order to advance their goals. Stein offered this assessment: “Political pressure on the USSC led to gay marriage, abortion rights and more… we must also pressure the courts.” In other words: what we can’t get through executive order, we’ll get through public pressure on the courts.

And with that, Stein exited, answering no questions about how this future would function. As of this morning, July 20, it is unlikely that Jill Stein will make the ballot in any form in Kansas. With the Republican convention happening now, Stein’s early July meeting stands out as the difference in vision of our political parties and vision of the future.

Today, we have two American parties now proposing virtual dictatorships. Whether it is right-leaning in Trump or left-leaning as Stein, there is really only one campaign in America right now that understands what a president actually can and can’t do in the way of change. There is also only one campaign that seems to understand that minority voters are worthy of outreach and discussion.

In Lawrence, Kansas, unhappy Bernie supporters had a presidential candidate offer to become their benevolent leader. What the Stein campaign discovered was that college kids are smart enough to see through the noise.
 

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So it's ok when Obama or Clinton use EO's but not Stein :jbhmm:

who said it was ok?

obama tryna pass amnesty through exective order is one of the stupidest things he has tried in his entire presidency, luckily it got struck down
 
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and? im not a dailykos supporter, and i dont support amnesty

i just posted the story becuase it was an interesting pov and its something people dont think about (the ramifiactions of the strong central government and power consolidation that the green party platform would require to bring about its policies)

I was pointing out Daily Kos's hypocrisy. My post had nothing to do with you.
 

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I was pointing out Daily Kos's hypocrisy. My post had nothing to do with you.
DK is a community forum, not a news site. What you and World posted come from two different diarists. A single post is as reflective of the site as one of your threads here represents all our opinions on HL.
 
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