Green Party doesn’t answer to large businesses: Analyst
“The Green Party does not answer to large
businesses as it takes no money from them for
campaigns, something all the other parties rely on and base their positions on
who has given how much,” American
political analyst Myles Hoenig says.
The Republican and Democratic Parties receive funding from
corporations, particularly on the military–industrial complex, Myles Hoenig
told Press TV on Monday.
According to a new poll, third-party candidates campaigning
for the 2016 US presidential election are gaining more support among voters as
Republican and Democratic nominees
continue to struggle with their unparalleled unpopularity.
“Every four years during presidential elections, the two
dominant parties fight for barely half of all eligible voters to cast their ballot for one or the other. Each side
offers a different vision of where to take the country,” Hoenig said.
“The Democrats emphasize peace and security through military
strength, and so do the Republicans. They both play on the American
‘values’ that is supposed to be our hallmark as a nation. On many other issues they
have differing platforms. Pro-choice vs. anti-choice, aide to poorer families
vs. cutting back such aide, and other noticeable platform differences,” he
stated.
“However, each election, there is always the fear that the
other candidate will win and both parties play on this fear. Up
until now, they’ve relied almost 50/50 on platform and fear as the motivating
factors to offer prospective voters,” he added.
“This year, all bets are off! The Republican platform is the
most conservative in their history yet their candidate is more to the left of
the Democratic candidate on some
issues,” the analyst noted.
“The Democratic platform was only written to placate the more
liberal supporters of Bernie Sanders. Their candidate, Clinton, may
have some liberal positions, but overall, she is far to the right than what the
platform calls for. And everyone knows that Clinton is the most hawkish
candidate we’ve had in decades,” he said.
“Clinton promises to bomb Iran if it attacks Israel,
not that Iran has ever really threatened to do so. Her environmental policies
that she has promoted in the past would appear to be as extreme as any
Republicans’ in their attempt to destroy the Earth’s environment for the sake
of Big Business,” the activist said.
“This year, there is finally a choice in Jill Stein of the
Green Party whose positions are based on the needs of everyday people,
not corporations, bankers, the military industries, and the pharmaceutical
industry, among others,” he observed.
“The Green Party does not answer to large businesses as it
takes no money from them for campaigns, something all the other
parties rely on and base their positions on who has given how much. Stein is
not a militarist; in fact she calls on a 50 percent reduction of the trillion
dollar war budget,” noted Hoenig, a Green Party candidate for Congress.
“The other parties rely on the revolving door of Pentagon
generals moving into the armaments
industry upon retirement and influencing politicians’ votes on war with huge
campaign contributions from the war industries,” he pointed out.
“Lastly, this is an election that more and more people aren’t
going to be swayed by the argument that if you don’t vote for X, you’re going
to get Y. Both Clinton and Trump are
the two most hated politicians in America and other parties, namely the Greens
and the Libertarians, offer alternative views,” he said.
“The Libertarians are an extension of the Republicans so
might attract those who find Trump distasteful but the Greens are far more
radical than the Democrats and offer
positions usually applauded by most Americans. They just don’t get the coverage
as the media, as proven in recent leaks, are in the pocket of both parties,”
the commentator concluded.
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