Leftist presidential candidate Cornel West slammed the Democratic Party on Tuesday as “beyond redemption” for its inability to meet “the needs of the poor and working people.”
The 70-year-old Green Party candidate was asked in an interview with The Hill’s Rising about Bernie Sanders’ longtime support of President Joe Biden, claiming he was the only candidate who could “save American democracy” when Donald Trump briefly ran. time.
“I think Brother Bernie is being consistent,” West replied. “You know, he’s been saying that all along and I can understand his argument.
“I think it’s a reasonable argument,” he explained. “I don’t think it’s a persuasive one.”
“I think the argument he’s making means there’s never been a possibility to break up the corporate duopoly, that there’s never been a possibility to try to speak to the needs of the working poor,” West continued, before talking about his experience on the campaign trail. traces
Cornel West, 70, criticized the Democratic Party for not addressing the needs of working people. Rising The Hill TV
He said that while in Mississippi, he saw officials who were “dealing with issues that the Democratic Party won’t touch, which [are] issues of poverty and intense police brutality. And we haven’t even gotten to military adventures abroad.
“So I think in many ways, Brother Bernie is making a reasonable argument, but I think deep down, he knows that the Democratic Party has no fundamental intention of speaking to the needs of the poor and working people.
“They are dominated by the corporate wing, they are dominated by the military when it comes to foreign policy, and that [Sanders] and the AOC and others will, in a sense, window dress at worst, and at best, people appeal every four years.
“But the Democratic Party is irredeemable at this point, when it speaks seriously to the needs of the working and poor.”
West, who is running for president on the Green Party line, was asked about Bernie Sanders’ longtime support for President Joe Biden.AFP via Getty Images
West responded that Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (pictured) will be used by the Democratic Party every four years.Getty Images
West’s remarks came just days after Sanders endorsed Biden at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics.
“It’s no secret that I want Joe Biden to be re-elected president,” said the Vermont Senator. “He and I share the goal of defeating right-wing extremism.”
He explained to CNN’s Dana Bash the next day, “I think, in these very difficult times where there’s a real question of whether democracy is going to survive in the United States” it’s important to support the incumbent.
“You know, Donald Trump is not a person who believes in democracy,” he claimed.
“Whether women are going to be able to control their own bodies or whether we have social justice in America, we end bigotry. Around that I think we have to bring the entire progressive community to stop Trump or whoever the Republican candidate is.”
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