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Diane Perlman, PhD's avatar

Thanks for all of this. A few points

My dear friend, Sam Husseini has a project called Vote Pal where people like your couple, team up and vote for another candidate, rather than cancel each other out. I suggested he add a tag line, "Unspoiling the election" or "Hacking the spoiler effect" or "Offramp from two evils" and "Post partisan"

I think Bobby is our best bet for now but needs some serious rehabilitation has he lost many supporters, including people in his campaign, over his positions on Israel and many of us who marched in the Kennedy contingent of a July 4 parade in progressive Takoma Park, MD, active in CHD who got booed. My problem is not as much his positions as his rigidity, mindlessness and refusal to learn or think deeply. His campaign is using rational inside the box strategies and NOT doing things to correct his flaws. I have communicated directly with several people in his campaign and they don't know what they don't know. Hit pieces on him treat him like a cartoon character and are not journalism. There are several specific, plausible things they could do to correct flaws but I see no signs. That said he is our best bet but not without immediate wise interventions.

Also - my tip off to the Covid lies, like with you, was the studies in China and Italy of high dose iV Vitamin C and noticing they were not doing it here. Also I was a fellow at the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopoltiical Conflict at U Penn in 1999.

Check out Sam's strategy. For this to work Bobby needs to change deeply - not just superficially by talking to Israelis and Palestinians.

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Diane Perlman, PhD's avatar

One more point - My brother who loved Trump (less so now) was open to Bernie, but hated Hillary. It didn't hurt that our father's name was Bernie.

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