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”.
I wish West didn't do the party hopping at the beginning of his campaign. He's the only candidate outside of PSL who isn't a demonic zionist freak. It'd be nice to vote for whatever kind of movement he's attached to through its party infrastructure. Joining and leaving two tickets in rapid succession makes me unsure if the problem is with those parties being to the right of him or him being to the right of them on some issue. A purely independent run like this sets nothing up beyond him and Bernie just made clear to the entire left that we sure as hell can't attach ourselves to individuals as if they're the centre of gravity for the movement.
Green party has Jill Stein who has been very critical of Israel.
Speaking at Palestine rally in DC
Just search Stein and Palestine.
Green Party on Israel / Palestine
One secular state with equal rights and a Palestinian right to return.
West was persuing the Green candidacy but he didn't want to be part of party infrastructure. So IMO West is splitting the left's vote and only serves to suppress the Green Party. A novelty campaign. Respect West, but he should have stuck with the Greens IMO.
I know this site goes hard for PSL, but PSL has a ballot access issue on a presidential ticket. It's far more localized. I don't know why people abandoned the Greens or pretend they don't exist. They aren't the German Green party.
She's just the standard green to me which represents the same pitfalls as every other green party, even if the international ones look down on the US greens. PSL represents the same environmentalist goals and its red-green footing is hostile to the liberalism I reject in the greens. If she can attract your support but bombs every election with her current politics, her unwillingness to just be Eco-Mao instead makes me sceptical of whatever is holding her back from the meaningful version of her politics.
Same goes for West. PSL already has the broad points of his campaign but with party infrastructure that backs it. I think whatever radicalism all three of them represent stands to go furthest in PSL.
Greens are anti communists
Cornell is even anti social democrat.
They will become the German Greens the moment they touch power