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The lie about “working tirelessly
for a ceasefire” is especially shameless, and it’s typical of the
Democrats’ empty words. Kamala Harris may offer lip service to some
nice-sounding policies, but where have those been for the last three
and a half years? What happened to Biden-Harris promises like raising
the minimum wage and creating a public option for healthcare? Nothing
- these empty pledges were tossed out as soon as the election was
over.
The brazen gaslighting continued
with Michelle Obama declaring that Democrats “don’t cheat others to
get ahead” and “don’t change the rules so we always win” - while
they’re trying to sue us off the ballot in multiple states, hiring
spies and infiltrators to sabotage us, and withholding public funding
we qualified for months ago. The DNC refuses to let voters have a
choice even within its own party, where party elites hand-picked
Harris as Biden’s successor after managing to avoid any real primary
process.
Kamala’s DNC acceptance
speech was a predictable parade of centrist platitudes peppered with
jingoistic claptrap designed to outflank the Republicans to the
right. When she bellowed that she would make the US military
the “most lethal fighting force in the world”, the crowd responded
with chants of “U.S.A! U.S.A!” And she continued the disgusting
gaslighting on Gaza with vague platitudes and crocodile tears while
she and Biden are supplying the very bombs that are burning and
shredding Palestinian children alive.
DNC elites picked Kamala the
political chameleon because she will say or do whatever they want her
to. And that means, as Biden promised his Wall Street backers in 2020,
that “nothing will fundamentally change.”
While the Democrats have been
acting out their rebranding show, I’ve been in the streets of
Chicago meeting with and listening to the people shut out of the
DNC - just as I did in Milwaukee during the RNC. We marched
with the Poor People’s Army for healthcare and housing as human
rights. We rallied with Workers Strike Back for a $25/hour minimum
wage. And we joined daily marches and actions to stop the genocide in
Gaza and cut off US support for Israel until it ends its brutal
occupation and apartheid regime.
Unlike Kamala Harris and the Democrats, my running mate
Butch Ware and I are listening to the people and fighting for the real
change we need right now.
Just like this DNC, the Democratic
Party is phony to its core because it works for the elite donor class,
not the voters. The Democrats can spend their mountains of corporate
money on slick rebranding campaigns to convince people that things
will be different this time, but all they will ever do is less than
the bare minimum, because that’s the most their donors will
allow.
On just about any issue - workers’
rights, healthcare, housing, racial justice, immigration, climate
change, voting rights, gun safety, women’s rights, you name it -
Kamala Harris and the Democrats will do less than the
bare minimum. And they will
continue the endless wars that are dragging us closer and closer to
the brink of a world war that humanity may not survive.
Again and again, the
Democratic Party has shown that its function in the two-party system
is to serve the same corporate imperialist agenda as the Republicans,
while taking up the space where we should have a genuine
people’s party.
Enough is enough. We can’t waste
any more time hoping for change from the same politicians who’ve
betrayed us again and again. Real hope will only come from real
change, and it’s up to us to make it happen.
Together we can lead the charge for
real democracy, an end to endless war and genocide, an economy that
works for working people, a livable future for our children, and an
America and a world that works for all of us.
The time is now to come together and rise up. Please consider contributing whatever you can today to
power our urgent fight for people, planet, and peace over
profit.
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