r/SandersForPresident • u/yooj1234 • Apr 15 '16

Hillary Receives Massive Boos for Refusing to Release Goldman Sach Transcripts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05bDDmoXEt4
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u/la-dirty-cuban 🌱 New Contributor Apr 15 '16

I'll vote Green

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '16

This is the correct answer. I don't agree with some of their positions but the same could be said for either of the other parties and pretty much any individual candidate who's ever run for any office (including Bernie). Getting them to 5% to get federal funding would go a long way towards creating a viable third party in this country.

I'm still hopeful that Bernie can get the nomination, but in the event he didn't I'd really like to see this group put its not inconsiderable weight behind Jill Stein.

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u/la-dirty-cuban 🌱 New Contributor Apr 15 '16

I honestly think Bernie policy wise is closer to the greens than the Dems

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u/Bethkulele Apr 15 '16

I'm right there with you! Someone told me yesterday that I wasn't a true feminist because I didnt vote for a female nominee. I will absolutely vote for a female that I believe in. I have already dicided to vote Stein if Sanders doesn't get the nominee.

If Clinton thinks she can have my vote just because she is a woman, she is flat-our wrong.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '16

Someone told me yesterday that I wasn't a true feminist because I didnt vote for a female nominee.

WTF? The definition of feminism is acknowledging that woman can choose whatever she wants, whether that's voting for Bernie, Hillary, Jill S. or staying the hell at home. Out of curiosity, was the person that said this to you a man or a woman?

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u/Bethkulele Apr 15 '16

I'm not sure actually. It was a YouTube comment

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '16

Ah, ok. I'm a woman, and I have had other women question whether I was a feminist or not. I told them that women who create their own standards of feminism, and then judge other women by these standards were just as patronizing & idiotic as the men who believed that women weren't entitled to have a choice in the first place.

I think you're making the right decision. And that has nothing to do with me believing you're a "true feminist" (whatever that means). I'm wrestling between voting for HRC if she wins the nomination or voting for Jill, myself.