I wish I had the opportunity during this show to answer the host’s last question: What happens if the DNC denies the nomination to Bernie Sanders again?
I would have answered that a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters will come to the Green Party.
The Democratic National Committee is already changing its rules to stop Sanders. They just packed nobody but corporate Democrats into credentials, rules, and platform committees of the Democratic presidential nomination convention.
They just changed their debate qualification rules so billionaire Michael Bloomberg gets to buy his way into the February debate after giving $800,000 to the Democratic National Committee and 44 state Democratic Party committees.
Now there are reports that anti-Sanders DNC members are floating the idea of changing the convention rules so superdelegates can vote in the first round of nomination voting after all.
Greens need to be preparing now incorporate a flood of DemExiters into our state and local Green Party organizations and campaigns if the Democratic establishment bends its rules to deny Sanders their nomination.
The only good reason to vote for Sanders in the primary is to help subvert and break up that corporate serving capitalist party. The stronger his showing the more supporters will see there is no future for progressives in the Democrat Party, and Demexit when they screw his supporters over again.
As they most definitely will. All the centrists are lining up to stop him…Clinton, Obama, Biden, Warren, the billionaires’ club candidate who just bribed his way into their debates, all of ’em. John Kerry is even threatening to jump back in now. Sanders must be stopped they all holler in 3-part harmony!
But only if doing so doesn’t preclude supporting Greens in your state, some of whom run primary elections. Like CA, where Howie Hawkins will be on your ballot twice as both a Green Party candidate and as a Peace and Freedom Party candidate. He is running as a fusion candidate seeking numerous national and state party nominations, has already been nominated by one of the two national socialist parties.
My state caucuses, so there is no conflict. Every independent state Green Party has its own process. So in MS I will vote Sanders in the DemoRat primary and caucus with Greens in suppirt of Howie Hawkins…a process the state has no hand in in.
In the general I will vote Green no matter who the Democrat candidate may be. We must break up the 2-party system to make electoral progress.
We can win in the general building a leftist big tent electoral coalition, mobilizing working class ex-Democrats, independents, socialists, and the 50% of the eligible electorate who see no point in voting for minority status corporatist rump party candidates. Neither D’s nor R’s can claim above high twenty percent of the electorate as party supporters anymore.
That is the ONLY viable path for any leftist or progressive to winning in 2020. The Democrats are a War Party death cult! Forget them!