Quote of the Day

Let May Day be a new beginning to defeat Trump, fascism, oligarchy and empire. But don’t think Trump is the only problem. Both parties are owned by billionaires and war profiteers. Both have betrayed working people and the planet.

Dump the damn duopoly.

Time is short.

– Dr. Jill Stein
via social media
May 1, 2025

Related Off-site Links:
May Day: Protesters Rally Across U.S. Over Workers’ and Immigrants’ Rights – The Guardian (May 1, 2025).
Jill Stein: Both Democrats and Republicans Serve the Oligarchy – TRT World (January 27, 2025).
Challenging the Duopoly: Jill Stein on Why She’s Running for U.S. President as Green Party Candidate – Geopolitical Economy Hour (April 20, 2024).
U.S. Presidential Candidate Jill Stein: This Two-Party System Is Jeopardizing America’s Future – Hala Taha (Young and Profiting (August 20, 2024).
Dizzying Predictability: The American Duopoly – Koli Mitra (The Statesman, November 3, 2024).
The Debate, the Political Duopoly and the Future of American Democracy – Kevin Johnson (The Fulcrum, July 9, 2024).
What The Heck Is the Two-Party Duopoly? – Shawn Griffiths (Independent Voter News, August 14, 2022).
The Two Party Monopoly Is Another Form of Voter Suppression: Richard Wolff Interviews Jill Stein – Democracy at Work (April 27, 2021).
How to Break Up the Two-Party Duopoly – Arnold Kling (Econlib, January 24, 2021).
Imagining Breaking Through the Political Duopoly in American Politics: An Interview with Howie Hawkins, Co-Founder of the Green Party of the United States – The Radical Imagination (September 27, 2020).
America’s Two-Party Corporate Duopoly – Second Thought (September 25, 2020).
Jill Stein on the Two-Party System – The Day (July 21, 2016).


See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• “It Is Our Responsibility to Make a Third Party Viable”
• “The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly
• Chris Hedges on the End of the American Empire
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• Democrat Talk on the Eve of Trump’s Return
• Inauguration Day Thoughts
• The Green Party’s Jill Stein and Butch Ware Give Their First Post-Election Interview
• Progressive Perspectives on Where Democrats Went Wrong in the 2024 Election
• “A New Chapter of the Democratic Party Needs to Begin”
• What the Republican Party Now Stands For
• The Lamentable Legacy of the Biden Administration
• Jill Stein: “We Give Reasons for People to Come Out and Vote”
• We’re Witnessing a Liberal Meltdown Over Jill Stein
• Butch Ware: “You Can Actually Vote Your Conscience”
• The “Green Smoothie” Option
• Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Butch Ware in Minneapolis
• When Democrats Undermine Democracy
• Elise Labott on How Third Parties Can Revitalize Democracy
• Something to Think About – August 15, 2024
• Centrist/Corporatist Democrats Have Just Launched “Left Punching” Season
• “Americans Deserve Choices”: Jill Stein on Breaking Points – 4/30/24
• Will Democrats Never Learn?
• “The Next Step Is a Green Step”: Cornel West Endorses Jill Stein (2016)
• Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein: Is a “Historic Collaboration” in the Making?
• Hope Over Fear: Voting Green

Image: Dr. Jill Stein in Minneapolis – October 18, 2024. (Photo: Michael J. Bayly)