Comments by "Jeremy Barlow" (@jeremybarlow2291) on "In Defense of Jimmy Dore" video.

  1. Jordan, I live in Northern NY, near Watertown which is now the binge drinking capital of the state -probably because the war machine through Fort Drum has degraded the community, but I digress, living in “real America” as the RepubliCONS call it, I can tell you that a new economic system and new ideas other than PILOTS and tax breaks for big corporations are wanted to help create jobs here in real America. People would like to get things like Medicare for All, tuition free and room and board and books free college like the Land Grant College Act and the WWII GI Bill provided, absent that, less taxes sounds good to people, so they vote RepubliCON. Give them a reason to vote and they do. With no money -less than $10k a GP candidate for Congress here got 12k votes in 2016 and almost 20k votes in an open seat race in 2014 with $38k that he raised with the help of his friend Ralph Nader who personally endorsed him. He drew more votes from Republicans than Democrats both times according to polling and the Democrats ran two corporate Democrats including a Pentagon and defense contractor shill in one of the races. The Democrats in NY-21 had a robust primary that Dylan Ratigan participated in and in my humble opinion as a Democrat who joined the Green Party the day after the NY Presidential Primary in 2016, the best candidate was a local working class single mom who came in second. There were three other progressives including Dylan who drew votes that would have otherwise likely went to her and the corporate Democrat in fake progressive clothing won and she is going to be handily defeated by the Republican incumbent because the Democrats didn’t run a candidate who full throatedly endorsed Medicare for All, and tuition free college and they don’t have a candidate who can explain an alternative system of economics that works for everyone. The GP in NY with Howie Hawkins has the best candidate remaining for Governor. He was a co-founder if the national Greens and is a walking encyclopedia of movement political history. The GP candidate for AG here in NY literally had a miniseries made by David Simon of The Wire fame about his most celebrated case. He as an NAACP attorney set the gold standard for housing desegregation with the Yonkers case. Michael Sussman without a doubt is the best lawyer in the field for AG. You should really interview them both because they will pick up the Nixon and Teachout torch and carry that message and politics in the right direction come November.
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