there is an alternative to WarParty..it is called the green party and receives NO coverage in the useless "mass media"..
of course the WarParty is doing everything it can to keep the greens off the ballot
"..The Democratic Party is spending millions of dollars on lawyers, operatives and propaganda to ensure that workers and youth will have no choice in the 2024 US presidential election except Joe Biden, responsible for the genocide in Gaza, and Donald Trump, the aspiring dictator.
In the last two weeks, major articles published in the media have spelled out the Democratic Party’s plan to block, to the extent possible, any third party or independent candidates from appearing on the ballot this November. This includes the Socialist Equality Party campaign of Joseph Kishore and Jerry White.
The media reports employ the language of a military offensive, referring to the “all-out war” the party is preparing, the “army of lawyers” it is mobilizing, the “state-by-state counterinsurgency plan” that it is implementing.
The choice of words is telling. Indeed, the Democratic Party and the ruling class as a whole are waging a “war” against the democratic and social rights of the working class. In a country with 330 million people, the financial oligarchy demands that ballot access be restricted to their corporate-dominated parties.
The extreme contempt for basic democratic principles is glaring. “There are concerns [in the Democratic Party] that giving people more choices on the ballot is more likely to hurt Mr. Biden,” the
New York Times writes, an argument befitting of a dictatorship. The
Times quotes Robert Lenhard, an outside lawyer for the Democrats, as stating that the effort to limit ballot access is meant to “ensure that the people who are on the ballot have legitimate bases of support,” by which he means the backing of the corporate-financial oligarchy.
A Pew Research poll conducted in 2022 found that the disdain for the Democrats and Republicans “is as high as it has been in more than two decades of polling.” Under these conditions, the Democrats’ lawyer tells the
Times, it is necessary to prevent voters from having “more choice on the ballot,” that is, the ability to vote for candidates they actually support.
It is not broadly understood, including by workers in the United States, how deeply undemocratic the American electoral system actually is.
The number of signatures third parties are required to gather in some states is colossal: 219,403 in California, 145,040 in Florida, 113,151 in Texas, 82,452 in North Carolina, 45,000 in New York, 43,000 in Arizona, 36,944 in Indiana, 25,000 in Illinois, 23,737 in Oregon, and at least 10,000 in Massachusetts, Missouri, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, South Carolina and Colorado. Collectively, independent candidates and third parties would have to gather over 900,000 signatures to get on the ballot in every state and Washington D.C.
Furthermore, in order to overcome the Democrats’ and Republicans’ ruthless challenges to the signatures collected, third parties are compelled to gather at least 50 percent more than the official requirement, or roughly 1.5 million signatures nationally. In contrast, getting on the ballot nationally in Russia—constantly denounced by the American media as the most authoritarian and undemocratic country in the world—requires the gathering of 100,000 signatures.
The Democratic Party is spending millions of dollars on lawyers, operatives and propaganda to ensure that workers and youth will have no choice in the 2024 US presidential election except Biden and Trump.
www.wsws.org
so there it is..the US is LESS democratic than russia
comrade stalin
victorious in the donbass
