It doesn't take much imagination to see why the corporate Democrats and their media enablers have made sure that Dr. Jill Stein is invisible. Her voice has been blacked out far worse than Bernie's, yet she perseveres.
Feminism for all women vs. Hillary's 'faux' feminism for the wealthy"
We started with the largest 'elephant in the room', namely feminism and the first woman president. For the past two years, the American public has been barraged with propaganda regarding the historic, yet token nature of the 2016 presidential race. This propaganda has served as a prelude to what can only be called Hillary Clinton's coronation. Feminist groups have conveniently omitted any news of the other woman in the presidential race, namely Dr. Jill Stein of the Green party.
I then mentioned the very real disconnect between women supporting Hillary and those that reject Hillary's faux feminism which focuses on supporting affluent professional women, while throwing poorer women under the bus as acceptable 'collateral damage.' I asked Jill how this schism reflects on her plans to equalize the gender playing field. How does her plan differ from Hillary's on working women's issues such as healthcare for all, a living wage and paid family leave?
She didn't mince any words or fret over political correctness.
"We are an inconvenient truth for Hillary Clinton who pretends to be the friend of women, but as you said really is the friend of wealthy women, whose policies are very much at odds with what women need. This is a woman who sat on the board of Wal-Mart which is really sort of the poster child of the predatory economy." (Source : taped interview in St. Louis July 3, 2016)
I asked for additional examples of Hillary's duplicity against the working poor, especially for women. Stein was on target.
"Hillary Clinton led the charge in Haiti"where impoverished workers had just gotten a raise to 60 an hour, and Hillary Clinton led the charge to push it back down to 40 an hour--a full third of their wages wiped out"not a friend of everyday people."
Stein does acknowledge the role Hillary played in the CHIPS or Children's Health Insurance Program, but admonishes the miserly, incremental nature of this reform. --If kids are healthy and parents are sick, those kids are not going to stay healthy. We need parents to be able to care for their families so we need Medicare for All, not just little pieces of healthcare."
Stein also has some difficult questions for Hillary and her brand of elitist feminism, which concentrates on the boardroom, while supporting wars of empire.
-- Again, how can you claim to be a feminist, when you are rushing into wars that are bombing other people's kids, hospitals and schools and destroying them? We should not be rushing to war as our first impulse. The wars where Hillary has rushed in have been absolutely an abomination for which there is no excuse; in particular Libya, where she led the charge."
"As scary as Trump talks, Hillary has a scary record of warmongering and neoliberalism."
Jill on universal healthcare as a human right"
This seemed like a good segueway into the issue of universal healthcare. Playing devil's advocate, I mentioned Hillary's infamous response to Bernie Sanders on Medicare for All--the --it's not going to happen," royal dismissal. I asked Jill how she would pay for such programs.
On Medicare for All, Stein explained that; "Health Care as a human right doesn't cost more than what we're paying right now. What we do simply is consolidate, and ensure that those costs are distributed progressively, in my view ideally, through the income tax or some form of progressive tax." (source : Interview on July 3rd in St. Louis)
"We can join the community of civilized nations, in providing Health Care as a human right, and we can do this by ceasing to provide a boondoggle for insurance and pharmaceutical companies."
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