Democrats, Republicans, Vote Counts And The Green Party; and Pre-Election Unrest and Aftermath

Democrats, Republicans, Vote Counts And The Green Party

We are recording this interview with Margaret Kimberley on November 4th, the day after the election. Over 90 million people voted early. Their ballots are still being counted. Trump doesnt want them counted and is relying on the Supreme Court to back him up just like the Supreme Court in the year 2000 stopped the counting of ballots in Dade County Florida, thus allowing George W. Bush to steal the election. Trump wants to be able to say, as former Nicaraguan dictator Somoza bragged, It is true you won the voting. But I won the counting.
The overwhelming consensus on the left was to hold your nose, vote for Biden, and then attempt to influence him when he takes office.
Biden kept a low profile during the campaign. He didnt have much to say programmatically. His strongest appeal was that he was not Trump, whom Noam Chomsky called the most.

The eco-socialist Green Party led by Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker got very little attention from neither the main stream press nor the left of center media. His campaign was vilified with critics stating that a vote for the Greens was tantamount to a vote for Trump. The Democratic Party in Wisconsin went so far as to help successfully prevent Hawkins and Walker from staying on the ballot in that state after Walker changed her home address after her papers were filed. Regardless of how people on the left voted, the immediate question, which is always the key political question, is what are we to do next?

Guest – Green Party supporter Margaret Kimberley, senior editor at the Black Agenda Report and the author of the widely read book Prejudential.

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Pre-Election Unrest and Aftermath

Days before last weeks November 3 presidential election, businesses across the nation boarded up storefronts in anticipation of violent protests. Cities prepared for election-related unrest as activists get ready for what could be weeks of sustained street actions, depending on how the vote count goes and how President Donald Trump acts after his repeated refusals to say if he will accept election results.
At the time of this recording, not surprisingly, results from several states were still pending.

We can be sure, however, that even if Joe Biden is declared the winner, Donald Trump will challenge the results as fraudulent, laying the groundwork for a series of protracted legal battles. But a larger issue remains: While mass uprisings in the streets have altered the social discourse around racism, several larger issues are still at play, determined to keep Donald Trump in office.

Guest ” Mara Verheyden-Hilliard with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund. Mara is one of the nations pre-eminent authorities on the policing of First Amendment protected activities including the right to peaceably assemble and associate.

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