Something to Think About . . .

Related Off-site Links:
Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein on America’s Democracy Crisis, Movement Building and Ending Israel’s War on Palestinians – Azad Essa (Middle East Eye, August 15, 2024).
Is Jill Stein’s Campaign Worth Supporting? – An Interview With Kshama Sawant – Due Dissidence (July 26, 2024)
Turn Left at the Next Intersection: Why the U.S. Needs a Viable Third Party – Donald Earl Collins (Aljazeera, July 3, 2024).
An Interview with Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein – Rising (June 28, 2024)
Third Parties Will Affect the 2024 Campaigns, But Election Laws Written by Democrats and Republicans Will Prevent Them From Winning – Barry C. Burden (The Conversation, April 30, 2024).
An Exclusive Interview With Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein – Denise Lockwood (Racine County Eye, March 12, 2024).
Why U.S. Elections Only Give You Two Choices – Vox (March 6, 2024).
George Washington Was Right, Political Parties Are Worthless – Bruce Maiman (The Huffington Post, February 21, 2024).
How U.S. States Make It Tough for Third Parties in Elections – Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters, January 18, 2024).
Can the U.S. Ever Break the Two-party Binary? – Christopher Rhodes (The Huffington Post, January 26, 2024).
Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63% – Jeffrey M. Joness (Gallop.com, October 4, 2023).
Do Third Parties Have a Place in the 2024 Presidential Election? – Elise Labott, Eric Loepp, and Chase Oliver (DividedWeFall.org, September 23, 2023).
The Problem with “The Lesser of Two Evils” – Zachary Ludwick (The Uproar, November 2, 2020).
Democrats Are Still Obsessed With Jill Stein. They Should Start Obsessing Over Non-voters Instead – Meagan Day (The Week, June 19, 2017).
Chris Hedges vs. Eddie Glaude: Should Progressives Vote for Hillary Clinton or Jill Stein? – Democracy Now! (October 20, 2016).
Expanding the Debate: Jill Stein Spars with Clinton and Trump in Democracy Now! Special – Democracy Now! (September 27, 2016).
Ralph Nader: Calling a Third-Party Candidate a “Spoiler” is a “Politically Bigoted Word” – Democracy Now! (September 19, 2016).
No, Ralph Nader Did Not Hand the 2000 Presidential Election to George W. Bush – Anthony Fisker (Reason, August 3, 2016).
Chris Hedges vs. Robert Reich on Clinton, Third Parties, Capitalism and Next Steps for Bernie Sanders Backers – Democracy Now! (September 5, 2016).
The Top 10 Most Successful Third Party/Independent Presidential Candidates – EmperorTigerstar (June 11, 2016).
Ralph Nader: The U.S. Political and Media System Is Designed to Obstruct and Silence Third-Party Candidates – Democracy Now! (May 10, 2016).

UPDATE: Call the Greens an “Independent Party,” Not “Third Party”: Jill Stein – Rich Johnson (NewsNation, August 31, 2024).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• “Americans Deserve Choices”: Jill Stein on Breaking Points – 4/30/24
• Progressive Perspectives On an American Coronation
• Thoughts on Cornel West’s 2024 Presidential Run
• The Big Switch
• The Republican Party in a Nutshell
• Republicans Don’t Care About American Democracy
• Centrist/Corporatist Democrats Have Just Launched “Left Punching” Season
• Will Democrats Never Learn?
• Celebrating Progressive Wins in the Midst of the Ongoing “War for the Future of the Democratic Party”
• Ricardo Levins Morales on the “Deepest Political Fault Line” Separating Democrats
• Marianne Williamson on the Movement for a People’s Party
• Progressive Perspectives on the Crisis in U.S. Electoral Politics
• Demolishing the False Narrative About Jill Stein and the 2016 Election
• Progressive Perspectives on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
• Hope Over Fear: Voting Green