United States: Two Party System and Militarism

US Presidential Candidate, Jill Stein has condemned Israel for its actions. She placed ultimate responsibility for much of the violence on Washington. While talking to MintCast host Mnar Adley she said, “Gaza is the key issue of our era.” She added “Every international law in the books is being broken.”

She said, “This is not something that began on October 07, 20234. This is the continuation of ethnic cleansing and displacement that began in 1947 and 1948 with the displacement of 750,000 people.”

Jill Stein, a physician by trade, has been involved in the Green movement for decades. She first ran for office in 2002, attempting to become the governor of her native Massachusetts. In 2012 and 2016, she was selected as the Green Party’s presidential candidate. Running against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016, she received over 1% of the national vote. She is the overwhelming favorite to represent the Green Party in the 2024 presidential election.

Congress, Stein noted, has just approved US$3.8 billion in aid to Israel, with another US$17 billion pending for not only continuing its genocide but to expand its wars in the Middle East.”

Global public opinion is increasingly turning against the United States, Stein warned, turning both Washington and Israel into pariahs. Even inside the US, recent polling shows that a majority of Democratic voters consider Israeli actions to constitute genocide. And President Biden continues to offer unconditional support.

It seems this is pushing millions of voters to consider the Green Party as an alternative. Stein described the Democratic establishment as in a state of panic over the widespread revolt among its voter base, which could destroy the party’s chances of winning elections.

She said they are fielding an army of corporate lawyers to try to dirty trick us, to find little technicalities to throw us off the ballot.

This is not a new phenomenon, as the Green Party has long dealt with the Democrats’ attempts to suppress them.

However, what has changed, Stein said, is the party’s willingness to announce their intentions to limit democracy openly.