We got no plans, no plans at all. Even men's always transcendent. Fightin' like she, smilein' everything. Always simple, tins' or pretendin' We got no plans. Today on Moment of Clarity, I talked with Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. I recently performed at a fundraiser for her here in New York City. Less than 24 hours later, after we talked, she was arrested for trying to enter the grounds of the presidential debate at Hofstra University. Apparently, her thoughts are so scary. They can't just be ignored. They have to be locked up. Let me know what you think. Are her thoughts scary? Should she be allowed into the debates? Leave a comment, give it a thumbs up if you like it. Forward it to friends. And here now, is presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein. So, one of the things that's impressive about your candidacy among many things is that you're a female. Is that you're a woman? And uh, but that's also, uh, you know, and I say a lot of things that are similar to what you say, just I do with comedy. But one of the things I get from people, which, uh, I know you're, you're maybe sick of the whole, uh, the whole spoiler argument, but is they say to me, yeah, but Obama's so important for women's rights. So I'm just wondering about your response to that. Right. Which is kind of just a response in general to the spoiler. Right. Yeah, exactly. Because what Obama's done on women's rights is take some very small steps forward while he takes huge steps backwards for the rights of women and men and children and everybody together. So, you know, what, what, what is he done on women's rights? Well, you know, maybe he looks good compared to the, uh, you know, the, the anti-abortion views of Republican Party. But look, you know, we have, uh, Medicaid that prohibits abortions in about half the states more than that, even. Where poor women can't get abortions anyhow. You had Barack Obama take Plan B off the shelf where the FDA said, look, we can prevent abortions by making, uh, family planning widely available. So you don't have to have health insurance. You don't have to have a prescription written by a doctor. You don't have to spend all that money to be able to get, uh, family planning. You can just buy it over the counter. That was available for all kinds of women, poor women, young women, everybody. And Obama just flew in the face of medical science and by 60 public health and medical organizations and said, no, sorry, you can't have family planning. And that was even, that was even some Billious, too, wasn't that? Civilious? Yes, I think she sort of did the dirty work for Obama there. You know, yeah, maybe he's different, uh, around the margins from the Republicans and the, uh, anti-abortion camp. But, you know, it's like the difference between a ship that's sinking rapidly in a ship that's sinking slowly. Neither are okay. You know, we need a lifeboat here, not just a ship that's going down slightly less quickly. To keep the ship analogy, I kind of view it as it's, it's basically you can steer to the far right, or you can steer to the slight right, and boat's going into the iceberg. But we just keep voting for the one that's steering slightly to the right. And rather than thinking maybe we should go left, you know? Yeah, exactly. And maybe we should do what everyday people want, you know? Even leaving aside questions of right, left, and ideology, yeah, what everyday people want right now, you know, it's pretty clear from the Occupy movement from the fact that one out of every two Americans is, uh, in poverty or heading towards it right now. You know, the fact that the top one percent has 40% of the wealth, and the lower 50% has one percent of the wealth, you know, this is just, this doesn't work. What's wrong with this picture? It's just wrong for me to get go. And the people who say, oh, I don't dare stand up, you know, I got to do this politics of fear thing. I'm too afraid of what would happen. You know, that's exactly where they want you to be. They want you to be paralyzed by fear because the reality is that we are winning this battle already. In fact, we've already won if democracy had anything to do with it. We've already won. So it's all about the politics of courage. They don't want you to wake up to the politics of courage because the only way they keep us down. Which I think is what started to scare them so much about Occupy was the fact that people are realizing they can have an effect and people are coming together and they knew they needed to stamp it out early because the idea of people having power scares the shit out. And especially because Occupy, you know, had broad public support behind it. You know, substantial majorities were saying, yeah, this is the right thing. The economy has broken. It shouldn't be run by Wall Street art. Democracy should not be run by Wall Street. Right. Very powerful. Exactly. As Alice Walker said, biggest way we give up powers by not realizing we have it to start with, we do have it and Occupy and, you know, the eviction blockades and the Keystone Pipeline blockades and the the Chicago Teachers Union, you know, in their strike and the student strikes to stop tuition hikes. You know, this is all about us realizing we have the power. The only power they have is the psychological power that they use to try to convince us that we are power less. In fact, we are powerful. We have won this election and we have won this democracy and this economy the minute we realize it and we stand up. Two things because I know we don't have much time. So I'm going to jump to the two things I want to ask you about are one is the drug war. I want to hear your take on that. And then also the 5% that you mentioned out here in the speech, which I think a lot of people don't know about the 5% goal you're trying to get to. Great. Yeah. So the drug war needs to end right away because it is a failed racist policy that has doubled the size of our jails in the last 15 years. It is a new Jim Crow. It's filled our jails with African Americans and Latinos, most of whom are nonviolent users, recreational users of a substance which is far safer than alcohol and nicotine. And a president if she wanted on her first day could instruct the drug enforcement agency to do a really, really radical thing. And that is to use science in determining what substances are and are not scheduled. Because the minute science is used, you know, there goes Ham and there goes marijuana off the list of most dangerous and scary drugs in the world. Yeah, not a lot of people overdosing on marijuana. Yeah, or dying from it either. That's what I mean. You know, dying from overdose. And marijuana is a substance which is dangerous because it's illegal. It's not illegal because it's dangerous. And that danger from prohibition is a real danger which kills a lot of people, tens of thousands of Mexicans, for example, caught up in this drug war. And many in this country caught up in gang wars. And marijuana is the workhorse of the drug industry. So the legalized marijuana is to basically pull the rug right out from under the whole illegal enterprise and very violent public health threat. And that last question about just mention the 5% and why what the 5% goal means for the green party. Great. We went from undetectable to 1% to 2% in the polls, which is phenomenal and is far above where we've been for the last 10 years because we really are the one voice out there that is of buying for the people that's not bought and paid for by corporations in Wall Street and lobbyists and super PACs and all that. With one alternative, we're sort of a political voice for what Occupy is about. And if you get to 5% what's the deal? You're automatically on the ballot next time. Exactly. So that's the deal. If we can double those numbers, if we can go a little more viral among students, 36 million students who are indentured servants, if they can get the word out, that they actually have a way to end this indentured servitude, whether by winning the White House or winning the day by driving these solutions forward, we can do that by going to vote. So if we get the word out, if we go viral, if we get on the web on Twitter, on Facebook and let our friends know that they actually got something to vote for, double our numbers, come up from 2% to 4% plus a little more. At 5%, we are on the ballot so we can hit the ground running in elections starting even this spring, as well as for the next four years and the next presidential. We're automatically on the ballot, we can put our resources then into getting the word out. And in addition, we get a $20 million grant from the federal government to actually really run the race next time. Well thank you so much Jill and Dr. Stein and I'll see you next time. And thank you for keeping up the fight. Day in and day out. Awesome, thank you so much. Keep us laughing.