Did Trump start college at 17? Did he get an academic scholarship? Did he graduate in 3 years? Did he graduate magna cum laude?
A 14 year old could of got the degree’s Cornel West got. Its a joke. Would you want your child to get the degree Cornel West got? I imagine no… Im also pretty certain the dude never took the sat exam. No one can understand a word Cornel says, including black people. The guy rambles on and on about nothing and tries to use the largest words in the dictionary. The dude is autistic, Im tellin ya.
“The lesson that I learned was that the Democratic Party, for the most part, is a corporate-dominated party that uses its progressives often as window dressing."-Cornel West “By refusing to speak to the needs of the poor and working people, the Democratic Party helps to facilitate and enable the Trumps and the [Ron] DeSantises and others. So, you end up with neo-fascism being in some ways dependent on neoliberalism and vice versa.”-Cornel West
Anybody that thinks Biden has any chance at getting progressives back has lost their fucking minds https://www.newsweek.com/cornel-wes...sh-joe-biden-more-progressive-opinion-1826202 Joe Biden's poll numbers are worrying for Democrats. Head-to-head polls show him tied with Trump, or even narrowly behind him. When the Electoral College is factored in, the situation may be even worse. And then there's Cornel West. West, a leading public intellectual and democratic socialist, is running as a Green Party candidate, and he has Democratic insiders very worried. They worry that in a close race, West might peel away some Left-leaning voters who would otherwise vote for Biden, dooming the President's reelection chances. At least one poll has suggested that's exactly what could happen, with Biden winning a head-to-head matchup against Trump but losing when West is offered as a third option. The threat West poses to Biden is real. Democrats who fear a Trump comeback are right to be worried, because even a small number of West votes in key states could make a major difference. But the serious question is: What can they do about it? West is running whether they like it or not. Of course, there will be the usual efforts to restrict ballot access and keep him out of the debates. But how about this for a better solution: Biden should win over potential West voters by doing things that make those voters more inclined to re-elect the President. After all, voters who defect to West are probably disappointed with Biden's performance. Maybe they're among those frustrated he hasn't done more to follow through on his promise to decriminalize marijuana. Or those who wish he'd be more aggressive in protecting abortion rights. Maybe they're climate activists who can't understand why Biden is continuing to approve new fossil fuel projects. Or maybe they're people who feel betrayed that Biden continued some of Donald Trump's harshest immigration policies. Potential West voters might be tempted by West's long history of staunch opposition to militarism and economic inequality. They might be pleased that West promises to fight "against the escalating ecological catastrophe by targeting the corporate greed of fossil fuel companies and resurrecting the Green New Deal" or by his support for Medicare For All (which Joe Biden said he'd veto, even if it passed). If Biden wants to win these voters over, he's going to need to prove to progressives that he's actually carrying out his promises and delivering for the American people. Clearly, they're not currently persuaded. This means that the pressure from West might force Biden to be more progressive than he otherwise would have been. The more it looks like West imperils Biden's reelection, the more Biden may have to shore up his left flank with new actions on student debt, labor rights, abortion, immigration, and climate change. Without reaching high numbers in the polls, West could exert quite a bit of influence on Biden's next year in office, since Biden will have to appeal to potential West voters if he wants to get re-elected. Already, we see new Biden actions that seem to indicate administration knows it has an enthusiasm problem, such as extending overtime pay, reversing course on oil drilling, and making it easier for workers to form unions. The more he fears a third-party candidacy, the more pressure he'll be under to do more of this stuff. Of course, anyone who supports West's agenda should fear the return of Donald Trump, who will utterly crush labor unions and wreck the planet. Using a third-party bid to pressure Biden from the Left might be effective, but it's also something like a very dangerous game of "chicken," because if West pulls away too many Biden supporters, Trump will get back into office and all of the gains will be wiped away. If I were Joe Biden, here's what I'd be doing right now: I'd be calling up Cornel West, inviting him to the White House, and asking him what three executive orders he'd like in exchange for dropping out, or at least imploring swing state voters to vote Biden. Democrats often display a resentful attitude toward third party voters, seeing them as dangerous fools. But treating people with contempt is a bad way to win their support. Instead of trashing West and his voters, I'd suggest Biden try to win them over. West is actually in a position of considerable power that he wouldn't have been if he'd run in the Democratic primary, as some have recommended he do. He could offer to leave the race in return for some concrete policies and extract concessions from the President. Or he can stay in the race, and the President may make concessions anyway in order to stay in office. Personally, I'm very worried by the risk of a second Trump presidency, which would be a disaster for labor, the environment, immigrants, and pretty much everything else. But I also understand that politicians like Biden often only take certain actions when there is political pressure on them. And West's campaign certainly keeps Biden under pressure.
Obama,who was no progressive, but far more progressive than Biden,lost progressives after Obamacare and Dodd Frank wasn't enough for many progressives and needed the highest black voter turnout ever,even to this day,to win in 2012.Biden having an approval rating 30 points lower than Obama with blacks has zero chance of that happening.
By Jonathan Allen and Carol E. Lee WASHINGTON — There's a creeping fear inside President Joe Biden's circle that the greatest threat to his re-election may come less from the Republican nominee and more from minor-party spoiler candidates. In a new national NBC News poll, Biden is tied with former President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the GOP nomination, at 46% in a head-to-head matchup. But when third-party options are included, Trump leads Biden 39% to 36%. Whether it's the academic Cornel West, a yet-to-be-named standard-bearer for the group "No Labels" or nominees of the more established Green and Libertarian parties, the third-party hopefuls have become the chief internal worry in Biden world, according to more than a half-dozen people who are in regular contact with the White House. “It’s pretty f---ing concerning,” said a person familiar with White House discussions about the matter. Biden met with Hillary Clinton, who had to contend with third-party candidates as the Democratic nominee in 2016, in a private pull-aside at the White House when she visited this month, said two people briefed on their interaction. Clinton pressed Biden to take the third-party threat seriously and come up with a way to compensate for it, one of the sources said. Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill did not respond to requests for comment about their interaction. Many of her allies have blamed 2016 Green Party nominee Jill Stein for siphoning votes from the Democratic ticket in crucial swing states that year. Twin realities undergird the fear of third-party candidates: In a boatload of recent national polls, Biden is running neck and neck with Trump, and also-ran candidates have accounted for more votes than the gap between the winner and the loser in decisive states in three of the last five elections, including the last two. The problem is also twofold for Biden, said the people in regular contact with the White House, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid angering the president. On one political flank, he faces a well-funded effort by the No Labels group to attract moderate voters. On the other side, West could cut into his base — with both Black voters and some liberal white voters — even if only a little bit. "With a tight election, every vote counts," a close Biden ally said of the third-party threat. "Is it in the back of many people’s brains? Absolutely. Do we have to be careful as we move out? Yes, we do." In recent weeks, the White House has given particular attention to the possibility that Biden is vulnerable with younger voters, many of whom lean more toward Democrats but are dissatisfied with government and do not have deep ties to the party. Gen Z voters have lived through a financial crisis, two wars, climate-intensified natural disasters, school shootings and a pandemic that all exposed weaknesses in the political system's ability to respond to crises. On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced a new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, a move that tracks with the nearly two-thirds of younger Americans who support stricter gun laws. "We are doing this work in large part because of the activism, the organizing, the marching, the voting of all of you leaders — be it students, parents, teachers, community leaders — who understand that living free from gun violence should be a right," Harris said in a video on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter. Harris, who is 22 years younger than Biden, 80, has taken on the informal role of the administration's chief outreach officer for younger voters. Last week, she visited Reading Area Community College, a Hispanic-serving institution in Pennsylvania, a key swing state, as part of a larger campus tour. She has made headlines by saying she has learned about "climate anxiety" from younger voters. Younger voters have been an important constituency for Democrats in recent elections, but the NBC News poll shows they have less interest in the 2024 race than they have had at similar points in past campaign cycles. Moreover, Harris' favorability ratings are below those of Biden, raising the question of whether she can be an effective messenger for his re-election campaign. Harris is viewed favorably by 31% of voters — compared to 51% who view her unfavorably — while Biden's splits are 39% and 49%. Trump is viewed favorably by 35% and unfavorably by 54%, according to the survey. The third-party concern is more acute for Democrats in this election than in the last one. In 2020, the only significant third-party candidate was Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian Party nominee, who represented a party with more in common with the GOP than the Democrats. Overall, the minor-party share of the vote dropped precipitously in major swing states, including Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Trump got a higher share of the votes in key Rust Belt states in 2020 than he did in 2016, but Biden outperformed Clinton's percentage by even greater margins as the third-party proportion shrank. But now Biden has to contend with a No Labels push to get on the ballot. The organization is run by Nancy Jacobson, a former finance director of the Democratic National Committee, and it has announced that it plans to pour at least $70 million into its eventual candidate. In July, Jacobson said her group would not play a spoiler role in 2024. "As a Democrat? Categorically, that will not happen,” Jacobson said. “This effort will nev — we’ll pull it down.” Biden and his allies face a bit of a conundrum just in their messaging about White House concerns, according to people familiar with White House discussions. They want Democrats to know that they are aware of the threat they face from third parties but want to avoid stoking panic. Biden himself is "worried about it," one of the sources said.