The elections are over and the Green Party did not even come close to getting 5% of the vote required to qualify for public funding in four years. Now that I'm writing it, it's so stupid that it works this way. The parties that need money the most are the ones that can't get it. The parties that need ballot access the most can't get it. There is almost no hope of an electoral path to getting more than a single party with two heads in the U.S. Still, here are a couple of good interviews with Butch Ware, who was the vice-presidential candidate for the Green Party. He is intelligent, well-informed, and funny. He seems like a nice guy. That's already more than three strikes against him, though. <media href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_WF0Jt8ahY" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/u_WF0Jt8ahY" source="YouTube" width="560px" author="Glenn Greenwald" caption="Dems Have 'No Hope' of Winning Election Warns Green Party VP Candidate Butch Ware"> <bq><b>Butch Ware:</b> It's not a protest vote that is designed to make the Democrats do anything. The Democrat Party has lost Muslim voters and it will not get them back. Participation in a genocide where you have offed 1/10 of the population of the third-holiest place in Islam. That loses you the Muslims forever. So the Democrats are never getting the Muslim vote back.</bq> <bq><b>Butch Ware:</b> I think that the Democratic party is about to go the way of the Whigs. <b>Glenn Greenwald:</b> [...] It's very obvious they would never be giving you air time and oxygen and attention if you weren't actually a threat to them and that's exactly what I said when I saw Keith Ellison follow AOC: <b>their internal polling on this must be extremely disturbing to them.</b></bq> I think this is still correct but it's going to take time. The Democrats have been increasingly weakened. While this election isn't a death blow to them, it's going to weaken them, possibly significantly enough that they won't return to power for a while. It doesn't matter, because the only way for them to return to power is by becoming more and more like the Republicans, eventually completely eradicating the myth that there are two parties. Perhaps, at that point, there will be space for a third party. Right now, the third party is "non-voters". <media href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHiKRTO2B8s" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/kHiKRTO2B8s" source="YouTube" width="560px" author="Bad Faith" caption="Voting for DEMOCRATS is WASTING Your Vote: Green Party VP Butch Ware"> <bq><b>These are people that will never ever vote for a Democrat again. Ever. At any point in their life, ever. Never, ever. And the reason is the same reason that a Jew will never vote for the Nazis.</b> It's never going to happen. They're dead. They're done. They are going the way of the Whigs. They cannot survive what they have done to themselves. <b>That party is going to be in shambles, broken and shattered in November. There is no surviving what their hands have wrought.</b> And as I said on <i>Democracy Now</i> with Amy Goodman: <b>anyone that tries to shield them from accountability for the evil that they themselves have done is complicit in the evil.</b> You are the silencer at the end of their gun. So, all of these people in mainstream media---they're going to be remembered the way that the Vichy regime is remembered in France. They are going to be remembered as collaborating with Nazis, except it is <i>worse</i> because we are actually the ones driving the genocide. <img attachment="butch-ware-2018.jpg" align="right">This is our weapons, our policy. <b>This is American imperialism being laundered through Israel</b> so that it can have an anti-semitic tag sticking to it. And it doesn't stick to the emperor, who's stark naked. And the emperor that's stark naked is Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Team Blue, Team Red. All the same genocides. <b>In this election, we actually have an opportunity to consolidate power.</b></bq> Again, the analysis was correct: Jill and Butch did the best in Arab-American districts. However, there just aren't that many of those. Also, it wasn't the Greens that ended up consolidating power---it was the Republicans. The Democrats can protest all they want, but they're reeling. Their idiotic strategy is currently in tatters, exposed to all. It will take time and propaganda to paper over those gaps. That doesn't mean it's impossible, though. The two-party system has a tremendous amount of money, as well as the support of the U.S.-American oligarchs, who are just happy with the way things are. They honestly do not care who becomes president. They make money either way.