Day: October 22, 2024

Cornell West For President

A mere couple of weeks before we vote so I thought I would do a little FYI…..please refrain from any snarky remarks…..once again….just FYI to let people know there is more than the pathetic two running in the 22024 election…..since the media is ignoring I thought I would do the right thing and bring the news out.

I have written many times that the last time I voted for a winner in a presidential election was 1976….and my streak may continue with the 2024 vote.

I am a weird bird for I vote my principles and not some easy out like voting for the least objectionable candidate…..and almost every time I am accused of helping elect this idiot or that…..but it is my vote and I have no one to answer to but my own conscience….so nay-sayers can piss off.

Last election season I was duped by Gabbard and I supported her as a Dem later I found out what a racist homophobe she really is…..I will try not to make that mistake again.

This next election is turning out to be dumb or dumber….no Repub nor Dem has any business being a candidate they are all as corrupted as corrupt can be.

So when the news came out of a possible third party candidate that I know and admire his work I was pleased to see that I may have a person to vote for this time around.

That person is Cornell West….

Another big name is entering the 2024 presidential race, though not for one of the two main political parties. Dr. Cornel West, the well-known progressive scholar, philosophy professor, and activist, said Monday that he will run for the nation’s top office on the People’s Party ticket, the New York Times reports. The third party was founded by Nick Brana, a member of Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign team, but Sanders himself declined a bid from the party for him to get involved before the 2020 election, in which he again ran as a Democrat. West, who has taught at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and, currently, Union Theological Seminary, says he is concerned with “the destruction of American democracy,” and that he is more concerned about voters than other politicians, whether Democrat or Republican, Politico reports.

“Neither political party wants to tell the truth about Wall Street, about Ukraine, about the Pentagon, about big tech,” the left-wing academic said in a campaign video posted to Twitter; in the video he referenced a 2022 interview in which he called former President Trump a “neo fascist” and President Biden a “milquetoast neoliberal.” (He’s also criticized former President Obama, and Forbes says he’s a non-Marxist socialist and Christian who has supported Sanders in the past and considers himself a populist alternative to mainstream politicians.) West says he is concerned with issues including the living wage, affordable and guaranteed housing, abortion rights, universal health care, mass incarceration, and climate change. “I enter in the quest for truth, I enter in the quest for justice, and the presidency is just one vehicle to pursue that truth and justice—what I’ve been trying to do all of my life,” West said.

Like I stated so far West is along my line of thinking about the world and US position within it.

But since Gabbard I will be researching West’s positions very carefully for I will not be duped again.

Update:  Since I wrote this draft news has come out that West will seek the nomination of the Green Party.

Progressive activist Cornel West announced he is seeking the Green Party nomination for president in 2024 after declaring his candidacy for the People’s Party nomination last week. 

West said that he decided to run as a candidate for the Green Party to try to build a “broad United Front and coalition strategy.”

“In the spirit of a broad United Front and coalition strategy, I am pursuing the nomination of the Green Party for President of the United States,” West tweeted Wednesday.

He asked people to “support this unprecedented effort to empower precious poor and working people here and abroad. I thank the volunteers of the People’s Party for the initial launch!”

(thehill.com)

I have supported the Green Party in the past and may do so again….but as always I will research closely.

More updates:  West has passed on the Green Party and will run as a true independent…..

Progressive activist Cornel West said Thursday that he is no longer running for president under the Green Party banner. Instead, the high-profile African American thought leader will run as an independent.

“I’m running as an Independent candidate for President of the United States to end the iron grip of the ruling class and ensure true democracy!” West wrote on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

“People are hungry for change,” he added. “They want good policies over partisan politics. We need to break the grip of the duopoly and give power to the people.”

I like the sound of that…..party politics is what has gotten this country where it is today….screwed up!

His policies can be found here….

https://www.cornelwest2024.com/platform

For more information this is an interview with West on Democracy Now…..

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/7/cornel_west_2024

Have you noticed that the media has downplayed anyone other than the two candidates?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

My Vote At The Crossroad

I wish that I could say that I have made up my mind for the 2024 election….but I cannot.

We are sitting at 2 short weeks before our trips to the polls.

We have two major candidates that stand for nothing that I hold dear.

I have said many times that I have not voted for a winner in presidential elections since 1976….during all that time I have voted usually for a third party….not that any of the candidates were that appealing to me but rather their platforms were more in-line with my principles.  Never have I ever regretted the vote I cast.

That brings us to this election….I still think that a third party and/or an independent candidate would get my vote…..and then brace myself for the unbending stupidity about my doing so would elect this person or that…none of which I agree….

Why Your Third-Party Vote Is Not Wasted

My argument is that it is MY vote and I shall put it where I think it will do the most good for this country not because of some personality that is all show and no action and what actions they do take is usually for the benefit of business not the people.

I have not noticed an uptick for independent candidates….if this was any other election but this one I would see this as a good sign….but sadly it is not…..but it is a good sign for the people are starting to see just how corrupt and do nothing the two parties have become.

Now let us look at nightmare scenario that is forming.

Let’s say the independent s make it so that neither major candidate gets the required number of electoral votes to win the election outright….what then?

Then it would fall to the House to elect the president….

If you don’t believe the 2024 presidential campaign can get any more bizarre or anxiety-inducing, just wait.

70 percent of Americans have indicated that they don’t want the major presidential candidates they now appear stuck with. A substantial percent of Democratic voters and a majority of Republican voters don’t want President Biden to run because of his age and perceived cognitive issues. A substantial number of Republicans and a majority of Democrats don’t want former President Trump to run because of his perceived legal issues.

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If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Presidential election leaves the Electoral College process and moves to Congress. The House of Representatives elects the President from the three (3) Presidential candidates who received the most electoral votes. Each State delegation has one vote and it is up to the individual States to determine how to vote. (Since the District of Columbia is not a State, it has no State delegation in the House and cannot vote). A candidate must receive at least 26 votes (a majority of the States) to be elected. The Senate elects the Vice President from the two (2) Vice Presidential candidates with the most electoral votes. Each Senator casts one vote for Vice President. (Since the District of Columbia is has no Senators and is not represented in the vote). A candidate must receive at least 51 votes (a majority of Senators) to be elected. If the House of Representatives fails to elect a President by Inauguration Day, the Vice-President Elect serves as acting President until the deadlock is resolved in the House.

What if no candidate wins 270 electoral votes?

With the House controlled by the GOP, no matter how small the margin, and that party in bed with the Trumpian mindset we could be looking at a Trump win.

Now do you see my quandary?

My vote could throw this thing into a House election….in a different time I would laugh it off as corrupt politics at work….but it is different this time around.

Do I hold with the convictions of my principles or do I hold my nose and vote for an old fart that may not live another 4 years?  And his successor is not someone that I would ever consider worthy.

Then there is the other ‘guy’ whose policies are so far right that it scares me and the party he controls just keeps with its trek right….no where would I consider a vote for these people (being polite as possible)

Now I stand at the crossroad.

Three paths are before me….one is one that I would never travel….one is a road that holds no hope for the people of this country….and the last road is more in line with my principles but could be disastrous for the country.

I try to vote with my head and the policies that I think could benefit the most people not the party that promises and seldom has any inclination of fulfilling those promises.

My head is telling me to look beyond the two corrupt parties, which I have done on numerous occasions, but then the thought brings me back to those damn crossroads.

What to do?  What to do?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”