"From Blue to Green, Why I Left the Democratic Party" and "Hillary won't get my vote in 2016. I'm not riding the donkey anymore." She's a publicist so she does understand the importance of the image you toss out and the power of words.
The Green Party is a joke because it made itself one and that didn't start with the above but it certainly continues the stupidity.
Hillary Clinton has not announced that she's running. But the 'ad' implies that all good thinking lefties must be repelled by the scary woman and rush to join the Green Party.
Sasha Brookner is a Whore for the Patriarchy. She's pushing thoughts of 'the scary woman' and so that's what she is. Several (three) (all?) of her friends have rushed to e-mail The Common Ills last week to insist that Sasha's not a Whore for the Patriarchy, that if you read her essay, one wrote to C.I., "she actually agrees with you."
No, she doesn't. Because if that was C.I. being used to pimp 'scary other,' C.I. would be telling the Green Party to cut that s**t out.
But it is interesting that her friends insist that Brookner wasn't saying what the headlines imply. That would mean that the sexism within the Green Party -- very rampant and long noted -- is distorting Brookner. (And until she makes them stop doing that, she remains a Whore of the Patriarchy even if that wasn't her intent.)
It's really amazing that Barack Obama is trying to gut Social Security right now, he's running The Drone War, he's sent several teams of Special-Ops back into Iraq for CT actions and what's upsetting the Green Party is that Hillary might run in 2016.
That's really telling.
And it goes to their sexism and their lack of ethics.
Please note that, yet again, when the Green Party goes sexist, its left to outsiders to call it out. Why is that? You can probably read Elaine's "Lisa Savage, feminism will not miss you" and form your own accurate conclusions.
Two anniversaries of the Iraq War have come and gone -- the start and the fall of Baghdad -- without any statement issued from the Green Party. They certainly haven't bothered to condemn Barack for sending US troops back in.
The reality is that the Green Party refused to call out Barack in 2008. Rosa Clemente embarrassed herself by slobbering over Barack in public while she was supposed to be running on the Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente Green Party presidential ticket. 2012 saw minor criticisms from Jill Stein (who was running for president) that were all silenced the second Barack tanked in the first debate opposite Mitt Romney. Suddenly, Jill Stein's campaign began to be non-stop attacks on Romney and she refused to call Barack out.
That's because they're a fake party. Nationally, they're a fake. They don't want to win elections (nationally), they just want to be the little sister to the Democratic Party. They're an embarrassment and anyone who thinks that this is a party to gather around in 2016 is fooling themselves. Ralph Nader has called them out and been correct every time. For all the crap they threw at Ralph Nader, the reality is that it is the Green Party that didn't build after 2000. Ralph wasn't even a member.
He put them on the map with his 2000 run but they're the ones who refused to build anything in the years that followed -- while claiming it was non-member Ralph.
They probably are wet-dreaming that Hillary will run in 2016 and that she'll get the nomination. That's the only way they could call out the Democrats, if the party gave them a woman to hate because they really hate women in the national Green Party.
For more on the above topics, you can see:
"Sickos like Sasha Brookner"
"Sasha Brookner Green Party 'hero' doesn't like Muslims"
"Iraq snapshot"