Cornel West announces 2024 run for president as People's Party candidate

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Progressive activist Cornel West announced his 2024 campaign for president with the People’s Party on Monday.

“I have decided to run for truth and justice, which takes the form of running for President of the United States as a candidate for the People’s Party,” West said in a video announcement on Twitter launching the third-party presidential bid.

“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, a philosophy professor and longtime vocal progressive advocate, said his campaign would focus on health care, living wages, housing, reproductive rights and “deescalating the destruction of the planet, the destruction of American democracy.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4035148-cornel-west-2024-run-president-peoples-party/

[Tomconroy]

1. Thrillsville.

[jimfields33]

5. We're getting close to 5 choices like other countries

Democracy is coming to America. Of course I’m voting Biden but I like to see our country evolve to multiple candidates. Maybe in the 2030’s.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. This concept does not work with the electoral college system

Third parties do not work in the US other than to help elect GOP candidates. The GOP will fund third party candidates just to win. Look who is funding NO Labels

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Remember that Nader was funded by Karl Rove in 2000 and 2004 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/ralph-nader-was-indispens_b_4235065.html

Furthermore, Karl Rove and the Republican Party knew this, and so they nurtured and crucially assisted Nader’s campaigns, both in 2000 and in 2004. On 27 October 2000, the AP’s Laura Meckler headlined “GOP Group To Air Pro-Nader TV Ads.” She opened: “Hoping to boost Ralph Nader in states where he is threatening to hurt Al Gore, a Republican group is launching TV ads featuring Nader attacking the vice president [Mr. Gore]. ... ‘Al Gore is suffering from election year delusion if he thinks his record on the environment is anything to be proud of,’ Nader says [in the commercial]. An announcer interjects: ‘What’s Al Gore’s real record?’ Nader says: ‘Eight years of principles betrayed and promises broken.’” Meckler’s report continued: “A spokeswoman for the Green Party nominee said that his campaign had no control over what other organizations do with Nader’s speeches.” Bush’s people - the group sponsoring this particular ad happened to be the Republican Leadership Council - knew exactly what they were doing, even though the liberal suckers who voted so carelessly for Ralph Nader obviously did not. Anyone who drives a car the way those liberal fools voted, faces charges of criminal negligence, at the very least. But this time, the entire nation crashed as a result; not merely a single car.....

On July 9th, the San Francisco Chronicle headlined “GOP Doners Funding Nader: Bush Supporters Give Independent’s Bid a Financial Lift,” and reported that the Nader campaign “has received a recent windfall of contributions from deep-pocketed Republicans with a history of big contributions to the party,” according to “an analysis of federal records.” Perhaps these contributors were Ambassador Egan’s other friends. Mr. Egan’s wife was now listed among the Nader contributors. Another listed was “Nijad Fares, a Houston businessman, who donated $200,000 to the Bush inaugural committee and who donated $2,000 each to the Nader effort and the Bush campaign this year.” Furthermore, Ari Berman reported 7 October 2004 at the Nation, under “Swift Boat Veterans for Nader,” that some major right-wing funders of a Republican smear campaign against Senator John Kerry’s Vietnam service contributed also $13,500 to the Nader campaign, and that “the Republican Party of Michigan gathered ninety percent of Nader’s signatures in their state” (90%!) to place Nader on the ballot so Bush could win that swing state’s 17 electoral votes. Clearly, the word had gone out to Bush’s big contributors: Help Ralphie boy! In fact, on 15 September 2005, John DiStaso of the Manchester Union-Leader, reported that, “A year ago, as the Presidential general election campaign raged in battleground state New Hampshire, consumer advocate Ralph Nader found his way onto the ballot, with the help of veteran Republican strategist David Carney and the Carney-owned Norway Hill Associates consulting firm.”

It was obvious, based upon the 2000 election results, that a dollar contributed to Nader in the 2004 contest would probably be a more effective way to achieve a Bush win against Kerry in the U.S. Presidential election than were perhaps even ten dollars contributed to Bush. This was a way of peeling crucial votes off from Bush’s real opponent - votes that otherwise would have gone to the Democrat. That’s why the smartest Republican money in the 2004 Presidential election was actually going to Nader, even more so than to Bush himself: these indirect Bush contributions provided by far the biggest bang for the right-wing buck.

[Mawspam2]

2. He should run for the No Labels primary and...

...smash Joe Manchin.

[brooklynite]

3. The People's Party is for left-wing ideologues...

...who don't see a difference between Democrats and Republicans.

[ColinC]

4. Well that's funny

Because I don’t see a difference between the peoples party and republicans. As both seem to be inclined to elect republicans.

[WinstonSmith4740]

7. Tend to agree

I like Cornell, and in a more sane time, I'd say "Go for it." But we do not live in normal times, and we can't afford a split constituency. It screwed us over in 2000, and will do so again. When TFG got enough help from Putin in 2016 to steal the presidency, I told my sister that as bad as he would be, our Constitution is strong, will protect us, and shut him down. But after the 4 years of his onslaught, coupled with a completely compromised Supreme Court, I'm not so sure it would be able to hold again.

It's bad enough that RFK, Jr. has gone to the dark side. Both RFK and JFK have to be spinning in their graves. We really don't need any 3rd party problems this time.

[DemBlue76]

6. I don't think they have any ballot access

so that really minimizes any damage they could do.

[FBaggins]

18. They claim to have it in VA and FL

And a few other states wouldn’t be difficult to acquire by petition

[JohnSJ]

8. A jackass who refused to vote for Hillary in the general election, and encouraged

others to do likewise

[oasis]

10. Yup, Cornell's ilk helped to sink Hillary which aided Trump.

Cornell can go straight to hell.

[Initech]

9. People's Party? Sounds kinda communist.

[TeamProg]

11. He is REALLY DUMB if he THINKS that he can DO all of the things he wants to within our shared

democracy of compromise.

Instant failure.

Otherwise, we want what he's preaching. He sounds like our man, Bernie.

I'd like a 1972 Dino 246 GT in blue, with a tan interior if you don't mind.

[MurrayDelph]

12. As far as I'm concerned,

Off and Right are the directions which Brother West can fuck.

[Mickju]

13. This is idiotic and counterproductive.

[SouthernDem4ever]

14. I'm sure it will make repugs happy

that is the group that will benefit the most from West running.

[Mz Pip]

15. File this under

You’re not helping.

Another guy with a big ego who has no chance except to screw things up.

[Crowman2009]

17. Maybe if we had a runoff popular vote system like France.

But we're stuck with this antiquated electoral vote BS, so this is a bad idea.

[2naSalit]

19. Lead balloon.

[Maeve]

20. Truth, Justice and the American Way!

Sorry, he's no Superman

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Prof. Tribe -West will help the GOP nominee win -- the way Ralph Nader helped GW Bush defeat Al Gore

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. The Peoples Party is only on the ballot in three states

Link to tweet

[prodigitalson]

24. Virginia is a swing state

[DemBlue76]

23. He's switching to the Green Party

Not good.

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[prodigitalson]

25. what a self stroke job this is

[Oopsie Daisy]

26. He was a treacherous saboteur who has clearly not changed nor learned any lessons.