Cornel West endorses Green Party’s Jill Stein, calls Trump “neo-fascist catastrophe,” ...

[Old Union Guy]

Cornel West endorses Green Party’s Jill Stein, calls Trump “neo-fascist catastrophe,” Clinton “neoliberal disaster”
http://www.salon.com/2016/07/15/cornel_west_endorses_green_partys_jill_stein_calls_trump_neo_fascist_catastrophe_and_clinton_a_neoliberal_disaster/

“I am with her – the only progressive woman in the race,” said Cornel West.

“This November, we need change. Yet we are tied in a choice between Trump, who would be a neo-fascist catastrophe, and Clinton, a neo-liberal disaster. That’s why I am supporting Jill Stein.”

West, the renowned scholar and revolutionary, published an op-ed in The Guardian on Thursday in which he slammed the presidential candidates from both major parties, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and instead endorsed Jill Stein, the presidential candidate for the Green Party.

“Clinton policies of the 1990s generated inequality, mass incarceration, privatization of schools and Wall Street domination,” he wrote.

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Am I reading something into it, or does he sound like he thinks Stein can win?

[politicaljunkie41910]

1. So that brings Jill Stein and her following to 5 people now? I'm feeling generous,

I'll round that up to maybe 2% of the voting electorate. I can live with that. Now time for Cornel West to get off the stage. No one cares about what he thinks.

[Hortensis]

2. Agree. West is still self destructing. He could have

used his new celebrity after he was down to remind people of what he is capable of, but perhaps he is no longer. Extremism that grows until it overpowers intellect, building layer upon layer of delusion, is kind of like a brain cancer. With moves like this, it seems unlikely he will find his way back from the path his enmity toward Obama took him down.

I mean, it's one thing to not want Hillary because your ideology is very different, another to actually endorse a Jill Stein for President of the United States.

[AgingAmerican]

43. There is nothing 'extreme' about Cornel West's ideology

Just steadfastness

[Hortensis]

44. Steadfast is hardly a compliment when the

behavior is driven by implacable hostility and negativism. He is on a steadfast course to oblivion, only spoken of at all now because he managed to push himself briefly back into Sanders' spotlight.

This is a man who despises Barack Obama. In THIS nation, he despises the one leader broadly admired by a wide swath of the populace, who know he is trying to work for them, not against them and only for a few.

[AgingAmerican]

46. We heard the same sort of talk years ago

And the predictions of 'oblivion' never came to pass.

He disagrees with the Democrats ideologically because they have begun to embrace Republican economics, AKA neoliberalism, and I agree with him on that point.

Why do I? Because I am not a Republican.

[JRLeft]

47. He believes in helping poor people something neither party has pushed for since LBJ.

The democratic party has done some things not much and the GOP has intentionally harmed them.

[MH1]

3. "Am I reading something into it, or does he sound like he thinks Stein can win?" -- LOL

Cornel West, drifting off into the ether of madness.

[giftedgirl77]

4. West is a fucking idiot.

Fuck him & his idiotic ramblings.

[geek tragedy]

5. irrelevant narcissist, he's just trolling as usual nt

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Whatever, buddy.

Off to the Ralph Nader room with you.

[SidDithers]

7. How the fuck was he a member of the Dem Party platform committee?...

Sid

[MohRokTah]

8. What a complete dumbass!

Fuck Cornel West!

[baldguy]

9. So, he'll do everything in his power to see the neo-fascist wins.

[SaschaHM]

10. And this is why I'm glad West was rebuffed repeatedly during the platform committee..

He clearly had no intention of endorsing the Democratic nominee so why let him amend out platform, when he's not going to be around to defend it. Screw him. I wonder if he is going to try and attend the DNC.

[frazzled]

11. That man crazy

I hope everybody sees that now.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Like I've said before here - he's an ivory-tower asshole.

n/t

[Rex]

13. So someone gave him another 15 minutes of fame?

Well well, someone else that doesn't know what a neo-liberal is! Why am I not surprised?

[ZombieHorde]

14. I understand the endorsement, but the Green Party

is anti-science, and I personally find that vexing. I'm glad Clinton hasn't bought into all the anti-gmo nonsense.

[The_Casual_Observer]

15. West is some kind of a weird savant.

I can only imagine how horrible it would be to take a class from that guy. He has an endless monologue of meaningless jargon
that says nothing.

It's impossible to comprehend his logic in doing this,

[nolawarlock]

22. Savant is too kind for that asshole.

[EffieBlack]

16. Yet he was allowed to help shape the Democratic platform

That self-aggrandizing fool should never have been let anywhere near the room, much less on any Democratic committee.

Let's hope that's the last we'll ever see of him in these parts ...

[JaneyVee]

17. First off...the 90s were the best economic period in US history....

Second, BILL CLINTON was President, NOT Hillary.

[glennward]

18. I also thought Bill was President then.

It is a form of sexist thinking that a woman cannot have a thought or opinions of her own different from her spouse's. Or that a woman can support her spouse without agreeing with everything her or she says or does.

[ehrnst]

19. Jill Stein is an anti-vaxxer on top of everything else.

Enemy of science and reality every bit as much as climate change deniers and those who think getting rid of Planned Parenthood will reduce abortions.

[rjsquirrel]

34. Of course she is

she's a leftist version of Trump, an actual narcissist.

[charlyvi]

20. Brother Cornel and Sister Doctor Jill Stein

A sure winner, no doubt! I bet Hillary, Donald and Gary are writing their concession speeches right now!

[Doctor Jack]

21. What happened to Cornel West?

I remember about 10 year ago he was a highly respected professor and author. These days he seems to be despised and most appear to be of the opinion that he is a total jackass.

I am seriously asking because I don't know, what happened to this guy? What did he do that destroyed his reputation?

[Skid Rogue]

28. Ding!

I know he's said a lot of stupid stuff, but I wont throw a leftist scholar under the bus simply because I think he's totally wrong. Ya know, we're human beings, we get stuff totally wrong all the time.


“I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.”
― Cornel West

“Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.”
― Cornel West

“Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial
heights of our silence. ”
― Cornel West, The Cornel West Reader

He's not my enemy... he's just wrong about Jill Stien

[pnwmom]

32. He called Obama the first "n**ized President," and a "Republican in black-face"

among other things.

According to reports, he got pissed off when he didn't get his own gold-plated invitation to President Obama's inaugural festivities.

[rjsquirrel]

35. Highly respected by other charlatans maybe

No actual philosopher I know takes him seriously.

[mythology]

37. He started to believe his own hype

Ego is a powerful weakness and makes people do really dumb things.

[Starry Messenger]

42. In addition to what others have pointed out, called President Obama a global George Zimmerman

There is a such thing as being a little to into your own "leftism" you lose all perspective.

[book_worm]

23. Who cares if Cornel West endorses Stein she will run a poor fourth--the Libertarians

will do the best among third party candidates.

[merrily]

26. This is likely so. They have big, big money behind them.

Governor Bill Weld and Governor Mitt Romney.

Massachusetts apologizes to the entire nation.

They've started talking about Governor Baker. too.

I guess the idea is that, if a Republican can win Massachusetts, he can win the country. However, it's not that simple: our legislature has more than enough votes to override any gubernatorial veto it wishes. Over 90% Dem for years.

And they ran Coakley again. As soon as I heard that, I knew we were toast.

[senseandsensibility]

24. He has a right to endorse/support anyone he prefers

last time I checked.

[pnwmom]

25. Yes, and we have the right to say he should never been invited

to participate in writing the Democratic platform.

[DemonGoddess]

27. ^^^This!!!

[nolawarlock]

30. Yes, and we can call out the hypocrisy and disgust of it.

[840high]

31. Yes he does.

[The Second Stone]

29. Has anyone ever seen Cornel West and Camilla Paglia at the same time?

No? I thought so.

Both of them are paid right wing trolls.

[One of the 99]

33. Wasn't he on the DNC platform committee?

He just proved himself untrustworthy.

[rjsquirrel]

36. Yes

At a certain independent senator's insistence and to the delight of his most ardent supporters.

West is a leftist version of Ann Coulter, only even stupider.

[hrmjustin]

38. He needs to be removed from the Platform Committee immediately.

He should never hve been recommended for it the first place.

[Peacetrain]

39. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Good Lord.. this guy is sitting on OUR platform committee..

[Zynx]

40. I don't care what he thinks about the election.

I really don't.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

41. Earth to Jill Steiners - the US political system is BINARY - your choice like it or not is a middle

of the road corporatist Dem who has been persuaded to add some pretty good populist/progressive

.... or an outright unapologetic Neo-fascist backed by Kochs and others now that Pence is in the game.

Do yall understand that there very possibly is no coming back from the latter?

[BobbyDrake]

45. Anyone who thinks Jill Stein will be President isn't playing with a full deck.

And you don't win anything with a hand full of Jokers like Jill Stein.