Green Party Nominee Jill Stein Invites Bernie Sanders To Take Over Ticket

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43. The two-party structure

Nomination or no nomination…his decision to join the Democratic Party in 2015, and seek the nomination and presidency in 2016, likely was a recognition by Bernie Sanders that bringing about transformative change—for improving the country and the lives of its people—cannot get done outside the two major parties.

Since 1856, every United States president has had a “R” or “D” after his name. Since 2000, the combined percentage of the two-party presidential vote has been no less than 96.25 for George W. Bush vs. Al Gore. (Typically, lately, it’s been 98.xx for R-vs-D.)

I think Bernie Sanders is well-aware. It’s that his platform—and the fact that he earned about 70 percent of the primaries vote from 17–29 voters nationwide (that age group, 18–29, is the first to carry Democratic in general elections)—is most important. That it is definitely more important than the name of the president of the United States.