Endorsement of Stein and Butch Ware comes as Muslims channel anger over US support for Israel into supporting third parties
The Abandon Harris movement that sprouted late last year out of the widespread outrage over the Biden-Harris administration’s support for the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has officially endorsed the Green Party’s Jill Stein for US president.
The endorsement is the first of its kind for Stein and the Green Party, with the Abandon Harris campaign being the first major Muslim-led political group to endorse her campaign this election cycle. Last month, a smaller group, the Muslim American Public Affairs Council NC, also endorsed Stein.
“We are not choosing between a greater evil and a lesser evil. We are confronting two destructive forces: one currently overseeing a genocide and another equally committed to continuing it. Both are determined to see it through,” the Abandon Harris campaign said in a statement released on Monday.
It doesn't get worse than being genocided, is the point these people are making.
Both Harris and Trump, equally think Muslims and other unwanted statistically brown people deserve to be subject to genocide and are willing to commit massive amount of funds to that end.
I think you should be against genocide and act accordingly rather than buying into the political illogic of your masters. A good start might be letting go of crutches like accusing everyone that calls out tacit support for Democratic genocide a Trump supporter.
You're announcing your vote for the people doing genocide. You don't get to call yourself anti-genocide. You are for hypothetical-lesser-evil genocide. You do actual advocacy for people doing genocide.
You'd think that literal genocide might make Democratic voters question their electoral illogic around lesser evil cheerleading. You have the option of, for example, saying nothing.
In 1930s Germany you'd be a Nazi supporter saying, "well at least I'm not a monarchist antisemite". Everyone imagines themselves as people who would leave or fight. Now you can see, in part, where the reactionaries and their sympathizers found footing, because you'd have been among them.
So glad to hear you will be campaigning in your state for electoral reform! You wouldn't point out the flaws of First past the post voting and then do nothing to solve the issue would you? Democrats believe in democracy, so it should be a easy sell. Looking forward to your updates!
Absolutely! I’ve been advocating for ranked choice voting and similar methods for years. But until we get people into office who are sympathetic to that idea, these efforts will go nowhere.
We are not Europe. Our coalitions come together before the election.
No, we just want your vote to counter the literal fascists who are poised to take over the United States and have an exact plan this time. (Project 2025).