Miriam,
And yet, I will probably vote for Joe Biden. My rationale is that
given another four years like the last four years, we will have lost
any chance of salvaging democracy. I voted for Jill Stein in both
2012 and 2016, knowing that my vote was a "throw away" vote, but
unable to vote for Obama again in 2012, after he gave us four years of
playing footsies with Corporate America, nor could I vote for Hilary
Clinton and her aggressive foreign policies. I have no belief in
Biden, except the belief that he will at least slow down the eventual
Fall. Meanwhile, back in the drawing room, we need to be putting
together a long range plan for educating and recruiting and drafting a
new and improved agreement with "The People" all of the people.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/12/20, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,
They're trying so hard to make lemonade from very bitter lemons. When I
listened to Thomas Ferguson before on The Analysis.News, he reminded me
about how when Obama took office, he could have done with our society and
economy, what FDR did. But he took half hearted measures instead and as a
result, we had a Republican sweep in 2010. In 2020 if Biden wins and doesn't
do what is necessary, Ferguson predicts, in 2022,we'll have something much
worse than what happened in 2010.
Miriam
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<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 4:25 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: FW: Dear Joe Biden
If Bernie Sanders were the presumed candidate of the Democratic Party, this
letter might attract his attention, and open the door for discussion and
hopefully, basic changes in his positions.
But we're talking here about Joe Biden. If there were a national award for
Wishy Wash of the year, Joe would have a bunch of blue ribbons.
At best, at the real best, Joe Biden would be a place mark, holding our
nation in place while we worked to change direction and reinvent democracy.
I had such a hope when Barack Obama took office in 2008, but once he
declared that he would not call for the investigation of War Crimes and
Torture by his predecessors, I could tell that he was not up to taking
charge.
Carl Jarvis
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 12:39 PM
To: Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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BREAKING: More than 50 national progressive, anti-war, and faith
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him to adopt a principled, peaceful foreign policy. Add your name.
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Dear Miriam,
Instead of feeling helpless in the midst of a pandemic, we are using
this time to organize. Rather than accepting poor choices and endless
militarism, we have joined together — over 50 national organizations,
representing millions of Americans — to urge presumptive Democratic
presidential candidate Joe Biden to adopt and run on a principled,
peaceful foreign policy platform. Along with Demand Progress, Win
Without War, Indivisible, American Friends Service Committee, and many
many more, we are calling on Biden to:
* Repeal the 2001 AUMF and respecting congressional war powers
* Reduce the Pentagon budget
* Engage diplomatically with Iran and North Korea
* Support a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
* Oppose all regime-change interventions and broad-based sanctions
* Rejecting discriminatory immigration policies and support refugees
* Close Guantanamo
* Ending support for governments, such as Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt,
and
the Philippines that violate human rights
* Prioritizing diplomacy and avoid militarizing our relations with other
powers such as Russia and China
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After we reach 10,000 signatures, we will deliver it to Biden.
As the letter makes clear:
“Our country and many others are woefully unprepared for the crisis
that we now face. Without extraordinarily bold leadership, this is
likely to be the beginning of a period of profound instability for the
entire planet... For decades, U.S. foreign policy has been overly
focused on confrontation with perceived adversaries and the global
projection of U.S. military power.
Doing so has militarized our response to global challenges, distorted
our national security spending priorities, toxified our political
discourse, and left us woefully ill-prepared to confront the growing
transnational threats to human security we face today that do not have
military solutions.”
Every four years, we at CODEPINK launch a President for Peace campaign
to call on all candidates to adopt a peace platform to move our
country from militarism to human needs, like healthcare, education,
and green jobs. Many of us feel despair when we hear Biden’s bad
positions, such as keeping the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem or supporting
sanctions on Cuba and regime change in Venezuela. Rather than tuning
out though, we are mobilizing with the demands of the people: A
PRINCIPLED PEACEFUL FOREIGN POLICY PLATFORM!
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Towards a more peaceful world,
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