Angela Davis: Dems & GOP Tied to Corporate Capitalism, But We Must Vote So Trump Is "Forever Ousted"

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https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/12/angela_davis_2020_race_biden_trump

AMY GOODMAN: We only have two minutes, and I want to get to the election. When I interviewed you in 2016, you said you wouldn’t support either main-party candidate at the time. What are your thoughts today for 2020?

ANGELA DAVIS: Well, my position really hasn’t changed. I’m not going to actually support either of the major candidates. But I do think we have to participate in the election. I mean, that isn’t to say that I won’t vote for the Democratic candidate. What I’m saying is that in our electoral system as it exists, neither party represents the future that we need in this country. Both parties remain connected to corporate capitalism. But the election will not so much be about who gets to lead the country to a better future, but rather how we can support ourselves and our own ability to continue to organize and place pressure on those in power. And I don’t think there’s a question about which candidate would allow that process to unfold.

So I think that we’re going to have to translate some of the passion that has characterized these demonstrations into work within the electoral arena, recognizing that the electoral arena is not the best place for the expression of radical politics. But if we want to continue this work, we certainly need a person in office who will be more amenable to our mass pressure. And to me, that is the only thing that someone like a Joe Biden represents. But we have to persuade people to go out and vote to guarantee that the current occupant of the White House is forever ousted.

AMY GOODMAN: Angela Davis, I want to thank you so much for this hour, world-renowned abolitionist, author, activist, professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author of many books, including Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. I’m Amy Goodman. Thanks so much for joining us. Stay safe.

All I can add is weigh your distaste for Democratic support of the corporate state versus another four years of the Grifter Show, and then freaking vote Dem!

[ibegurpard]

1. I've made similar arguments

To people who i consider more radical than myself. Vote for the person who will allow you more breathing room to continue working for your issues.

[Beartracks]

5. That's a good nutshell. n/t

[scarletwoman]

7. It's a good argument, I like it.

I also think that when faced with the choice between all-out damage, or the chance of some possible mitigation - however slight - it makes more sense to choose the latter.

[still_one]

2. amy goodman. Another one who pushed the lie that there is no difference between republicans and

Democrats in 2016

No doubt we will see her parade the Democratic party haters like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibai, David Sirota, Jill Stein, etc pushing the false equivalency bullshit

[LenaBaby61]

3. Amy Goodman. Another one who pushed the lie that there is no difference between republicans ..

and Democrats.

Which is why I no longer watch her.

[still_one]

4. Same here

[Jspur]

6. I agree with

Angela and that's why I'm voting for Biden. I don't like Biden but I hate Trump. So that's the tiebreaker for me. His rhetoric whether it's racial or on other matters is just divisive and insufferable.