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Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most we need an affirmative agenda.

Jill Stein

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
Peace Activist
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Chicago
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Jill Ellen Stein
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The largest bloc of voters now has divorced the Democratic and Republican parties, which are now minority parties and the plurality of voters now are independent. They're looking for something else.
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In the words of Alice Walker, the biggest way people give up power is by not knowing we have it to start with. We have it: just to look at the power of fighting student debt or 25 million Latinos who learned that the Republicans are the party that hate and fear but Democrats are the party of people deportation and detention.
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We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses your name, where I am right now, they've got it on the ballot for a statewide referendum which enables people to.
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The key here in my view is not having to change people's minds, it's just allowing them to know.
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It's time to use the antitrust laws and to break up this conglomerate corporate media that has now poisoned our democracy to the point that our very survival is at risk for the kinds of monstrosities that are flourishing in our corporate media dominated discussion.
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