[Peace-discuss] FW: A Response to David Axelrod

[David Johnson]

 <https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/19/a-response-to-david-axelrod/> A
Response to David Axelrod


by  <https://www.counterpunch.org/author/qe4asema/> MYLES HOENIG

 

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 <https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/19/a-response-to-david-axelrod/> A
Response to David Axelrod

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According to David Axelrod, and soon the entire mainstream media, minus Fox,
I as a Green Party voter and candidate for Congress was duped by the
Russians, as w

 

 

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According to David Axelrod, and soon the entire mainstream media, minus Fox,
I as a Green Party voter and candidate for Congress was duped by the
Russians, as were hundreds of thousands of us nation-wide. We are so
impressionable that what? $100,000 FB ads convinced me to vote for Jill
Stein just to give Trump the edge? But why was I targeted? I live in
Maryland which went 2-1 for Clinton. Guess the Russians didn't want to take
any chances and persuaded me to try to deny her Maryland's 10 electors. Mr.
Russian, try a more narrow broadcast for 2018. You might succeed in getting
Greens, not Democrats, elected. (Wink wink, we got some running in
Maryland!)

As preposterous as Axelrod's argument is, what's frightening is that it will
be carried throughout mass media, and certainly in their letters to their
registered voters that Greens are a threat to their way of life (for the
members of Congress for their luxurious lifestyles, coziness to lobbyists,
salaries way beyond the average American, excellent health insurance.) With
a Russian behind every Green's back, no red-blooded American should endure
the very thought that a democratic election actually means having different
voices being heard, not just that of the capitalist parties, two wings of
the same bird of prey.

Axelrod's main contention is that we Greens, Independents and other parties'
followers cannot think for ourselves. We have to be led by foreign agents
capable of influencing us on matters that we feel so passionate about. For
many of us, we oppose the imperial policies of the US. But who to vote for?
Hmm. Russia, help us decide. The same can be said of so many issues. On the
environment, anyone who really believes in it opposes fracking. It destroys
groundwater, it's alleged to have caused earthquakes in Ohio, and it's a
financial boon to the oil and gas industry. Candidate Clinton as Secretary
of State promoted fracking all over the world. Russia! Help us decide who to
vote for!

War and Peace: Although peace is one of the 10 pillars of the Green Party,
it's not something all of us totally support in the way some interpret it.
Many of us support the idea that foreign (and imperial) soldiers on one's
territory ought to be fought against with whatever one has at their
disposal. The UN allows for all people to fight against occupation. That
goes for US soldiers everywhere, Russians in Chechnya, Israel in the
Occupied Territories, and against any other occupying force throughout the
world. Candidate Clinton took the peaceful, progressive, advanced nation of
Libya, and turned it into the hell hole it is, with open slave markets. Man,
can't decide if I should vote for Clinton or not. Can Russia help me?

We Greens kind of don't like Nazis. They walk funny in parades. Obama and
Clinton brought Nazis into a European government for the first time since
WW2 and turned them on fellow citizens in a near genocidal bloodbath against
Ukrainians of Russian heritage. Now I see why Russia doesn't want me to vote
for Clinton. Thanks comrades for letting me see the light.

Most Greens and Independents strongly support public education. The
Republicans, with Ted Kennedy's help, of course, gave us No Child Left
Behind. Obama, however, put the nail in public education's coffin with his
(Rat) Race to the Top, nearly weaponizing NCLB. Clinton strongly supported
charters. Hmmm. Who to vote for? Need some help, Ivan.

Lastly, although the list is truly endless, we Greens believe in Single
Payer; get the health insurance industry out of our health care. They have
manned the death panels for decades. Your candidate, Mr. Axelrod, said that
Single Payer will never happen. She meant under her administration. Trump
had praised it at one time. I guess Greens just had to vote for either Stein
or Trump if health care (1/6 of the American economy) mattered that much to
us voters.

The Democrats have been extremely imaginative in coming up with excuses for
why they would pick the only candidate in America who could lose to Trump,
and why fixing the primaries against Sanders was good for the Party. Awhile
ago when the picture of Jill Stein surfaced with her dining with Putin the
propaganda knives were being sharpened. Now that there are indictments of
Russians, the proof is there that Jill Stein acted as a foreign agent for
Russia. Forget all the economic collusion between Clinton, her foundation
and the Russian oligarchs, the Green Party is the latest cause for her loss.
Such an insignificant national party that couldn't even garner more than 1%
of the national vote is now the latest threat to our democracy and for the
Democrats to have continued the Obama legacy.

 

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