American voters feel “impotent and hopeless” as they approach an election where the main choices are a “neo-fascist Pied Piper” (Donald Trump) or “the war criminals of the Democratic Party”, argues independent presidential candidate Cornel West.

West, one of the United States’s pre-eminent philosophers and justice activists, tells host Steve Clemons that President Joe Biden is enabling Israeli genocide and that Israel cannot be secure if “precious Jewish security and safety is predicated on the domination of precious Palestinians”.

West argues that recent talk of a two-state solution is “subterfuge – a refusal to deal with the 700,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank”.

    • happybadger [he/him]
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      He said in this that he's running to dismantle the empire and make the US a nation amongst nations. I don't know what that looks like though.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        5 months ago

        Probably looks like he's making a book to sell. No way a third party with no ground game can do anything functional, especially electorally

        • happybadger [he/him]
          hexagon
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          5 months ago

          That's about the only thing he could achieve with it. There are plenty of options out there for a third party and none of them are running someone with as prestigious a background as he has. Him not being attached to any is a red flag but I don't know if that's his red flag or theirs.