Jill Stein recruiting Palestinian Americans for her running mate position

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

35. Used to know some Nader voters who claimed that it was ok if dems didnt win because

then under Republican rule people would get so beaten down they would finally RISE UP and overthrow the system.

To which I always responded: WRONG!!! The history of the world is that often a nation or people gets so beaten down and traumatized they give up and it takes generations for them to recover if they ever do. A society can get shut down quite rapidly, people "disappeared" and communications cut off - "rising up" is by no means a certainty under those conditions.

In fact somewhere I read (forget who, someone smarter than me) that "rising up" is more likely to happen when people arent beaten down, when they have rising expectations that life can be better.

Then there's the old argument "I want to vote my hopes and dreams, not lesser of two evils".

To which I reply - my hope and dream is to not live under fascism so I can be free to work towards my hopes and dreams!

Well, that was 25 yrs ago and they were young and naive - no longer in touch so dont know if their thinking has evolved since then.