Hmm: Democrats are fighting to get third-party candidates Jill Stein and Cornel West off the ballot in several states, while simultaneously fighting to keep RFK Jr. is on the ballot in some states even after he was removed.
“Defending democracy” is certainly a delicate matter.
Of course, the “principle” at stake here is nothing other than “what’s best for Kamala Harris.”
Stein and West, both serious leftists, will siphon votes that would likely go to the Democrat; leaving Kennedy in office (or so the calculations go) will cost Donald Trump more votes than Harris.
And it doesn’t matter that RFK’s campaign had to fight to get on Most of the ballots are from when it threatened to cost Democrats more votes (which polls indicated when Joe Biden was still the nominee).
It also follows Democratic efforts – overturned by the Supreme Court – to maintain Donald Trump removed from the ballot in several states.
Not to mention the Democrats’ strategy, used for years, of intervening in GOP primaries to support extremist candidates they believe are easier to beat in the general election.
All of this makes a mockery of Democrats’ supposed concern for voters’ rights and clean elections.
“Elections” where you can’t vote for the candidate you want are a feature of tyrannical regimes like Iran, Venezuela, China and the former Soviet Union.
In Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court just rejected Democrats’ request to exclude Jill Stein from the ballot, a decision Stein rightly called “a great victory against the anti-Democratic Party’s war on democracy.”
It is indeed undemocratic: In Michigan, state Democrats challenged West’s candidacy, and the state election board tried to disqualify him by claiming that his identity statement was inaccurate. duly notarized.
Meanwhile, RFK Jr., who dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump on August 23, is trying to withdraw his name. disabled the vote in swing states to avoid playing spoilsport.
But the Democratic-led states of Wisconsin and Michigan rejected Kennedy’s request to leave the ballot. Mark Thomsen, a member of the Wisconsin Democratic Board of Elections, told Kennedy’s camp: “You’re not going to be able to make a deal with somebody and play last-minute games. . . . We know that Trump and Kennedy are playing games.”
Only Democrats They were able to play games, including replacing Biden with Harris once they realized Joe was a sure loser.
They keep saying that “democracy is on the agenda” this year, but (to quote Inigo Montoya) we don’t think that word means what they think it means.
