“GPUS Fundraising Grift: How Can Jill Stein Run the Nation When She Can’t Even Run the Green Party in Good Faith?”

Emanuel's response

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“GPUS Fundraising Grift:

How Can Jill Stein Run the Nation When She Can’t Even Run the Green Party in Good Faith?”

November 16, 2023

Emanuel Pastreich

Statement

Former Green Party US candidate for president 2024

I could go on for hours about the corruption in the Green Party and the bias and the outright dishonest approach to fundraising, administration, and policy formulation within the Green Party which has rendered it a branch of the Democratic Party, much as the Democratic Party has become a branch of Vanguard, Boeing, CASI and various Israeli IT startups. But that is not my job today.

I could say the same about Brother Cornel West as well. The sin they are guilty is of enthusiastically embracing a real, but limited hangout, about institutional corruption well in line with the Starbucks “think left; live right” hypocrisy that has become the standard fare, like a Whopper at Burger King, for Democracy Now, Counterpunch, and Common Dreams. I know that Sister Jill and Brother Cornel did not want t o work with us, not because they disagree with us, but because they knew that the moment they talked to Emanuel and Chuck at Green Liberty, that the money they get from progressive-minded investment bankers, the “Ben and Jerry’s” portfolios for pro-choice, gun control, and identity politics without class awareness, would freeze up for them. That calculation, even more than the classified directives from Homeland Security they may or may not receive, is what has doomed the Green Party to a Jill Stein rerun, which will perfectly parallel the Biden-Trump Zombie apocalypse.

But I want to talk about a different aspect of what the Green Party is doing wrong which has even more dangerous implications and that should be front and center for us as we go forward to the next stage of Green Liberty and Green Renaissance.

The Green Party, whether through Brother Cornel (who has a bit more legitimacy as an intellectual—even if he is someone who is “famous for being famous” in the sense of Lisa Minelli) or through Jill Stein, has promoted this perspective on American politics:

“The United States is at a crossroads. The Republicans and the far-right are increasing their power and slowly destroying the institutions of democracy and if we do not raise enough money, elect progressives to congress, Green if possible, but progressive Democrats are okay too, then at a future date, in a decade, we will face an increasingly totalitarian government, led by Trump, who is like a O-‘MAGA’ Bin Laden leading this right wing ‘enemy within’.”

But this narrative is deeply dishonest and sadly, whether intentional or by accident, plays right into the hands of the most dangerous forces in the United States.

First, the United States is not on the edge of a fascistic government. Perhaps that statement would have had some legitimacy in 2000, but today, in 2023, large parts of the Federal Government, state governments and local governments are partially, or fully, controlled by fascistic totalitarian systems of governance. Those “governments” may be mislabeled as “the private sector” meaning governance by multinational corporations and banks owned by funds and trusts that are hidden away in obscure places like Bermuda or the City of London, but they are nevertheless fascistic governance.

As Federal security contracts from Homeland Security, and local police, and prisons have had their functions outsourced to private IT firms, surveillance systems, private security, often controlled by Israeli or other foreign concerns, totalitarian governance is spreading like an invisible cancer. We will have, an America that is “Disneyland with the death penalty.” And there is trace of constitutional rights, or the rule of law, in the large part of the US controlled by multinationals and their minions.

For the Green Party to suggest that giving money to support their candidates in an election will somehow help to avoid a situation which is in fact already a reality is a horrible deception; perhaps it is even a Homeland Security project to stop Americans from thinking straight.

What we need is not “progressives” approved to appear on TV, to be interviewed by fake progressives like Amy Goodman, or progressives who can raise money from the Ben and Jerrys crowd, or from the progressive identity politics addicts among progressive investment bankers and fund managers.

We need rather to ask ourself the more fundamental question: is there a way to obtain real political change in the United States without groveling before the backroom boys and the progressive-branded investment bankers—which was Obama’s specialty?

The simple answer is yes, and it has been done before in world history and American history. And, it is the only real solution since those who go out seeking “progressive money” will, as Batman’s Bruce Wayne says,

‘You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain…’

Here are the real solutions:

1)         Revolutionary Politics

The United States is based on revolutionary politics and this tradition is still there just beneath the surface. We are entering into an age of revolutionary politics at home and around the world. Revolutionary politics will come from the left, but also from the right, and the faster we can articulate a truly revolutionary agenda which is constructive, long-term, accountable and inclusive, the more progress we will make.

At present, however, we are given a fake choice between “progressives” and “conservatives” without any choice of a “revolutionary” party anywhere. So we just have to swallow fake revolutionary rhetoric from political players bought and paid for by big money.

We need a revolutionary party which is supported by a revolutionary movement. What does that mean? It means that whereas the Green Party or progressive democrats offer some possible progressive policies at some future date, they are incapable of speaking the truth about the criminal nature of governance.

That means that for us to stand up and bravely question the fundamental legitimacy of the criminal syndicates that call themselves the Federal Government, the New York Times, the Democratic Party, or Harvard University, is more valuable for our people, for our country, than getting money from progressive sources that demand that we pretend that these are legitimate institutions that deserve our respect. As Frederick Douglass stated so famously, “This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

We are better off going to the Department of Homeland Security and firmly, bravely, declaring that “Green Liberty is committed to humanity, to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and therefore has legitimacy as a representative of the American people and Homeland Security, controlled by global finance is no longer the government in any sense and must stand down.”

This may seem like an incredible action, but it is not unfamiliar to me, and it works. It spells out what is right and what is wrong and forces people within the system and outside the system to make a choice.

I believe that many will choose our revolutionary vanguard. What I can say with certainty is that carboard messiahs who push a progressive vision but are silent on the specifics of how global finance, derivatives and bonds, allow the rich to dominates all aspects of our society, are doomed to fail, and to disappoint. Perhaps that was the whole idea.

2)

Inclusive politics

We need inclusive politics. That means that anyone who is willing to put the work in of speaking to citizens, of rallying against corporate fascism, of doing the hard work, is just as valuable, more valuable, than a donation from some wealthy progressive.

We must welcome everyone who will fight with us, and we must pledge to support them for a lifetime, to form them into groups that can carry on the fight into the future. Fundraising among the wealthy progressives is a chain around our necks. These wealthy progressives have money in the stock market, have assets that are adversely affected by attempts to create a more equal society. They may be helpful at times, but they cannot be our base.

3)

Offer intellectual, economic, medical, and food independence

The political parties offer corporations and the rich concrete rewards. They get tax breaks, contracts for their corporations, opportunities for the Federal Reserve and other banks to buy up useless stock to produce obscene profits, etc.

They offer nothing to the citizen except a vague, and likely impossible, promise of a better society at some future date. No wonder that citizens do not respond.

We need instead, a political movement, a political party, that offers concrete benefits to those who join, and thus creates commitment and loyalty. What can this political movement offer?

Independence, above all, from the corporate fascism that dominates America today. That means:

Intellectual independence (access to media, education programs for citizens, and town halls that are focused on the needs for citizens to improve their understanding of the world and prepare themselves to resist the corporate assault).

Economic independence:

Formation of mutual support groups, closed economic units wherein all goods and foods are produced locally and consumed locally so as to assure that all value stays in the community and multinational banks get 0% of transactions by barter or local currencies.

Medical independence:

Teaching citizens, and organizing citizens, to address most health and medical issues at the local level through nutrition, exercise, access to healthy food, education about basic nutrition and medicine, training in homeopathic and basic medical treatment for the vast majority of illnesses, and training that allows individuals to address more serious conditions without ever needing to engage with hospitals or doctors.

Such efforts can break the parasitic medical system and encourage self-sufficiency and independence among citizens by addressing the most common tool used to control citizens: health.

Food independence:

Learning how to grow food, process food, and make use of food stuffs in the most effective manner independent of the supermarkets and convenience stores run by multinational banks that enforce consumer slavery.