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”.
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.