We turn to Kamala Harrisās position on Israelās war on Gaza, which many are calling a genocide. After she was asked about calls to condition U.S. arms shipments to Israel by CNN reporter Dana Bash, Harris refused to consider halting the flow of weapons and instead affirmed her support of Israel. This position violates both federal and international law, argues Palestinian American political analyst Yousef Munayyer, and, coupled with her campaignās denial of a requested Palestinian American speaking spot from āuncommittedā voters at the DNC, he warns that āHarris could be worse than Bidenā when it comes to U.S. support for Israel.
perhaps by changing the party into something entirely different from within. of course that would require a lot of work to overcome 25 years of institutional inertia, let alone a big job of completely changing the partyās strategy and operation.
i would even make the argument that the greens arenāt left, since they arenāt calling for worker control of the means of production and historically thatās been the bare minimum to be considered left but using the french seating chart hundreds of years later has its own issues.
Well I donāt see nearly as much ballot access from the PSL or any other minor party. Maybe we should make a new party thatāll lose popularity to the next one in 5 years. No party will ever be leftist enough for leftists in this country and that pretentious mindset will keep us weak forever.
How does that saying go? āIf ballot access were candy and nuts weād all be eating steak!ā
There are absolutely ultras in America but itās not a position necessary to recognize that the Green Party isnāt leftist. Iād say at the very least the greens canāt be called leftist for the same reason the dubious moniker āprogressiveā isnāt any marker of the same: their platform is explicitly not left.
Thatās dumb. If you think the greens are just as bad as the Dems, then your brain is broken. PSL has ballot access in 17 states and theyāre the only other leftists running a candidate. Green party has more ballot access in 37 states and holds a significantly higher chance of meaning anything. But maybe in another 3 or 4 election cycles the PSL will have the ballot access that the greens do now.
I didnāt say the greens are as bad as the dems, I said theyāre not the best available option any more than dems are.
Im not gonna rake you over the coals too much for it, but maybe the language around ballot access and chances isnāt the best way to pull people to your particular electoral construction given itās the same set of ideas that supporters of the democrats are using against both of us.
They use that argument because itās valid and holds weight. The only other option besides bringing in a third party with ballot access is violent revolution and that was a lot cooler of an idea before drones existed.
If itās so valid then why arenāt you voting democrat?
My problem with the idea that we all ought to vote for some party whose policies and politics are far from our own in order to win isnāt that it denies the blossoming of everyoneās special flower ideas, but that it collapses all the effects of a third party into winning and losing.
perhaps by changing the party into something entirely different from within. of course that would require a lot of work to overcome 25 years of institutional inertia, let alone a big job of completely changing the partyās strategy and operation.
i would even make the argument that the greens arenāt left, since they arenāt calling for worker control of the means of production and historically thatās been the bare minimum to be considered left but using the french seating chart hundreds of years later has its own issues.
Well I donāt see nearly as much ballot access from the PSL or any other minor party. Maybe we should make a new party thatāll lose popularity to the next one in 5 years. No party will ever be leftist enough for leftists in this country and that pretentious mindset will keep us weak forever.
How does that saying go? āIf ballot access were candy and nuts weād all be eating steak!ā
There are absolutely ultras in America but itās not a position necessary to recognize that the Green Party isnāt leftist. Iād say at the very least the greens canāt be called leftist for the same reason the dubious moniker āprogressiveā isnāt any marker of the same: their platform is explicitly not left.
They are the leftist party available.
There are other parties that are both more left, more explicitly align with my politics and do not have a dubious history of triangulation.
The greens are not the best available option any more than the democrats are.
Thatās dumb. If you think the greens are just as bad as the Dems, then your brain is broken. PSL has ballot access in 17 states and theyāre the only other leftists running a candidate. Green party has more ballot access in 37 states and holds a significantly higher chance of meaning anything. But maybe in another 3 or 4 election cycles the PSL will have the ballot access that the greens do now.
I didnāt say the greens are as bad as the dems, I said theyāre not the best available option any more than dems are.
Im not gonna rake you over the coals too much for it, but maybe the language around ballot access and chances isnāt the best way to pull people to your particular electoral construction given itās the same set of ideas that supporters of the democrats are using against both of us.
They use that argument because itās valid and holds weight. The only other option besides bringing in a third party with ballot access is violent revolution and that was a lot cooler of an idea before drones existed.
If itās so valid then why arenāt you voting democrat?
My problem with the idea that we all ought to vote for some party whose policies and politics are far from our own in order to win isnāt that it denies the blossoming of everyoneās special flower ideas, but that it collapses all the effects of a third party into winning and losing.