First, I want to clarify: I have never spoken to Jill Stein and don’t know her personally, or anyone in her campaign. This is to say: everything I write here is 100% my observations and conclusions, completely free from any obligation to anyone.
Who is this text for?
I am writing this for Americans who in normal circumstances would most probably vote for the Democrats, but feel they are extremely reluctant to do so this time around, mainly because of America’s genocide of Palestinians (no American support = no genocide = America’s genocide).
If you will vote for the Democrats always and forever unconditionally, this text is not for you, so spare us the outrage, the ‘Is Trump better?’ and the ‘Are you a secret Putin admirer, perchance?’. We know you, we anticipate you, so please, save us the boredom.
But if you feel like you cannot vote for the Democrats (and indeed, how can anyone after the past 8 months?), or if you are close to giving up on them – please, go on reading. I may help you find a constructive channel for your rage, confusion, and despair.
Why should you listen to me?
I grew up in Israel, and have witnessed the country’s decline into barbarism and lunacy firsthand. I have seen all of it. That is not to say that Israel was ever the propaganda of Israel: we’re among adults, we know the deal. Yet it has taken a big step into the darkness in the past 15 years or so, and is now drenched in it and cannot tell itself apart from it. It has become darkness.
Many factors contributed to Israel’s decline:
itself (supremacist, exceptionalist, and totalitarian as it is) can be said to have made it inevitable, and so did American corruptive support. But what I want to stress today in this regard is the destructive role the fake left-right divide played in Israel’s fall, providing a lesson that needs to be applied quickly and decidedly to American politics.
For many many years the Israeli left and right pretended to have a big and principled dispute about all kinds of titular issues (more socialism, more free market, more gender openness, less gender openness, peace to guarantee security or security to guarantee peace, and so on). But, miraculously, no one ever seriously fought for real solutions to the actual problems facing the country – the foremost being the question of Palestine.
Having watched the fake Israeli left-right battle for decades, I concluded, a long time ago, that not only is this purported battle disingenuous, it is a strategic ploy used by the real powerful parties and establishments to advance their goals without interruption, under a democratic guise.
In a left-right system, an eternity of stasis on all major issues can slowly unfold while a hectic fake political activity takes place. In many countries in the West, this is how we got here: we were fooled to think a difference exists where it doesn’t, and that manufactured noise was genuine political progress.
If you don’t want what happened to Israel (and what’s still about to befall it) to happen to the US, I think you’ll agree the mold needs to break. Do something unusual, and it actually may. Say: vote for Jill Stein in the upcoming election, and start organizing for her ASAP. Because (hear me out) even if the US can be saved, the Democratic party can’t. I’ll explain why.
The Democratic party (and you)
This section of my text is its heart, yet it is the easiest to write. The short version of it is this: if you knew someone murdered a sleeping child for some money or as a favor to a friend, would you be voting for them in an election? Then why would you even consider voting for a party that killed 20,000 children (at the very least, as the number of deaths in Gaza is expected to skyrocket once the IDF leaves and real excavation starts)?
Do you really think there is a difference between killing a child with your own hands and dropping a bomb on their head when they’re asleep? If you do, please explain this difference to me.
That’s the short, no-nonsense version of why no American should vote for the Democrats. The longer, more philosophical one involves dwelling for a minute on the meaning of evil.
What does it mean to be evil? There aren’t as many answers to this question as one may imagine. Being evil, or doing evil, means causing suffering and pain to others repeatedly and on purpose.
Every one of us can do very bad things once, by mistake. We may run over an old man going in reverse and talking on our phone. This can happen to almost anybody.
What cannot happen to anybody is running over 50 old people in one month, say because you want to make the point that elderly people should not loiter around your home.
Many of us could kill if we lose it or feel terrified, for good and justified reasons, or because we panicked unnecessarily. We are not naive. We know how people are.
What makes the difference between something that can happen to almost anyone and actual acts of evil are intention and repetition. When someone, or an organization, say a party, does terrible things again and again and again, with full knowledge of the consequences of their actions, then they are not tragically mistaken or experiencing an unfortunate streak of bad luck. They are evil.
The Democratic party chose to exterminate each and every child in Gaza using bombs, starvation, mutilation, psychological torture, exposure to unbelievable and continued stress, destruction of families, neighborhoods, and institutions, and full participation in the hideous defamation of the characters of Palestinian people. It is not an accident. it is not by mistake. It was done repeatedly, deliberately, in a synchronized and coordinated effort to destroy Gaza and also destroy protesters in the US, specifically on American campuses. This is not a fluke. This is a strategic evil.
Can you vote for those people? Do you think they can change? Are you serious? People who issued death warrants for tens of thousands of babies will suddenly change and become human? And you’re going to believe them? Who are you kidding but yourself? Is this where you are as a human being? This sad, deflated state?
The democratic party is the party of genocide, and it will continue to be the party of genocide at the very minimum till every decision-maker in the current party is dead, which will take around 50 years. If you’re still around by then, reconsider your vote. But not sooner.
Another very big cloud hanging over the Democratic party is its becoming, for all intents and purposes, a party of eternal war against the whole world. From Russia to Iran to China to Gaza to the Philippines, the democratic party feeds the military-industrial complex into a frenzy and goes along with all its deranged ideas wholly and enthusiastically. From banning TikTok to committing to expand and prolong the Ukraine war to supporting Israel’s mad ambitions: the Democratic has become, or maybe always was, and is just now being exposed, as a horseman of the apocalypse.
It is controlled exclusively by Zionists, white supremacist imperialists, and warmongers, and it must be kept away from power at all costs. No one should vote for them. Absolutely no one. It advances nothing positive and is good for no one but its donor class.
The merits of Jill Stein
Judging by her declared positions and track record, Stein is a humanist, an authentic anti-war candidate, and someone who cares deeply for both the environment and society (see, for instance, her decades of work for Physicians for Social Responsibility). She also speaks like a human being, and not a robot, which is a big deal in its age of government by PR machines.
Jill Stein has been crystal clear on the Gaza genocide from the get-go and is openly calling to stop weapons exports to Israel. And establishment voices say it like it’s a bad thing, but Stein displays a much more nuanced and intelligent approach to world affairs, free from the toxic and revolting usual American sense of superiority. Yes, she was photographed sharing a table with Putin. I will share a table with the devil himself to prevent war.
And if you’ve been a Democrat your whole life, and are bitterly stung by your party’s ecstatic sponsorship of the Gaza genocide, I implore you to not remain stuck in this position, and start rethinking and reconceptualizing many other stories the party told you. People who murder children deliberately and repeatedly must never be taken as innocent commentators on anything. I think that’s a good rule in life.
Finally: a Democratic win will be an unmitigated disaster for the US. Use all the anger generated by the genocide and Trump instead to wage a real war for America’s soul and future
In Democratic circles, it is very common, and indeed obligatory, to think that Trump is the worst thing that could happen, period. I am not convinced that it is so, especially because Trump, as opposed to the Democrat nutjobs, seems less enthusiastic about the prospect of a world war (which the Democratic establishment appears to relish but gets a pass on because the psychopolitical infrastructure for blaming Democrats of being brutal murderous savages has not been created yet. Well, here it is).
But that’s not even it. Because the worst thing that could happen to America right now is going back to pseudo-normalcy. And the worst kind of pseudo-normalcy is Democrats continuing to rule like nothing happened, only to fake empathy and humanity on establishment talk shows. Bar a world war (which they are pushing for), that’s the absolute worst scenario.
A continuation of Democratic rule means nothing will change, as the Democrats will be reassured they can do anything and remain in power, and have no reason to give a single fuck about anything and anyone. All the rage and anger will have gone to waste, despair will increase tenfold and America will continue its fake journey till it meets a major challenge, which is where it will implode.
By making Stein’s platform a viable alternative you will be laying the groundwork for actual change in America, which must start with a political discourse that is connected to reality and is not based on fantasies and pathetic exceptionalism.
When Trump becomes president again, that will be the perfect time to set in motion a national soul-searching, allowing for real debates about real issues; if such a process is allowed to take place, many people who think of themselves as Democrats, and even some Republicans, may find themselves tempted to a new platform, offering a new vision and new hopes.
But this soul-searching can only happen if enough people choose differently, and permit themselves to break the mold of the two-party system, which guarantees paralysis and corruption. If enough Americans decide to take the adventurous Jill Stein path, the possibility of change will be at hand, whereas in the two-party system, change cannot even be mentioned in jest.
These are desperate times for America; potentially a time of do or die. You may not have another chance to derail the military-industrial-media train and install some new tracks to new destinations.
This time, after all the heartache, anger, and pain of the Democrat-sponsored genocide (on top of all other disappointments), and with Jill Stein so firmly in the right place at the right time, this may be the opportunity you were waiting for. So make the bold, unpredictable choice. Break the mold. Give America a chance – just a chance – for a clean, fresh start. Vote and organize for Jill Stein.