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Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate said, "The DNC's cynical political calculations, as well as the public's mistrust and rejection of Clinton's policies of endless wars for oil, disastrous trade deals, and support for Wall Street deregulation that crashed the economy and devastated the lives of millions — all this together has resulted in horrific blowback that puts us all in danger."
ANALYSIS:
Trump, the Empire's New Frontman, Was Elected by White People
Ajamu Baraka , Green Party vice-presidential candidate said, "We stand in solidarity with the communities that have suffered from harassment, voter suppression, and now the trauma of a Donald Trump victory and what it represents. We must build alternative power. We need principled and strong social movements that express and agitate for the needs of the American people, and a political party to represent that movement at the ballot box. Over 1 million people voted for the Green Party ticket. We are the electoral arm of that social movement."
David Cobb , Stein/Baraka campaign manager said, "Don't mourn, organize. This government is premised upon the concept of 'consent of the governed.' We do not consent to Donald Trump and right wing rule. We do not consent to the establishment of corporate rule. We do not consent to Empire. We call for a peaceful, non-violent revolution by the ordinary people who were shut out of this terrible election by the leadership of both corporate political parties. The Green Party is prepared to be an instrument for popular power, and a new politics of integrity that must rise up and replace this rotten two-party system.”
"There will be strong criticism levied against the third and alternative parties that ran in the presidential election. Specific to the Left, we will hear that we are responsible for Donald Trump's election because we ran against Hillary Clinton. Let's be perfectly clear on this: The Democratic Party is not entitled to the vote of every person who does not vote Republican. Hillary Clinton ran an unapologetically pro-Wall Street campaign and secured her party's nomination through an openly rigged primary process. She supported the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, instigated the Libyan Civil War and subsequent regime change, and enforced a foreign policy that is directly responsible for the Syrian Civil War and refugee crisis. No legitimate socialist or socialist organization would give support to such a person without betraying everything that socialism stands for.
The Republican and Democratic Parties have consistently failed to empower or defend the interests of the working class, and in many cases are directly responsible for the attacks on them. They exist to monopolize political power and represent the interests of capitalism.
Dark days are ahead. None of us know the specifics on what laws the Trump administration will push to enact or repeal, but we have all heard his rhetoric and seen his supporters. There is nothing any of us can say to make this better. What we can do is organize. What we can do is defend our neighbors and stand with the communities that will be under attack from President Trump and his right-wing army of supporters. What we can do is organize ourselves into an effective opposition."
" We’re not the only ones who are horrified that a candidate could be elected who boasted of his misogyny and egged on the worst racists while talking trash against immigrants. But this is no time just to mourn. It’s a time to reaffirm support and militant solidarity with all those who have been the main targets of Trump’s demagogy and hatred: women, people of color, immigrants. That’s the only path toward uniting the working class against its real enemies: the billionaire rulers of this country, including Trump.
OPINION:
Why Trump Won — And What’s Next
The day after the election must become Day One of the resistance.
U.S. corporate culture dishes out fantasy — the fantasy of the strong, rich, white man who can fix everything, from 'Batman' to Trump’s 'reality' show. The 'good' capitalists will provide good jobs for everyone.
Trump cannot meet the needs of the vast majority of people in this country. The struggle continues from the grassroots up, and the only answer is to forge the greatest unity of all the movements to fight capitalism and reaction. "
"Yes, racism, misogyny, Islamophobia, and anti-immigrant sentiment are all a part of the explanation for what happened in this election. A big part. But they aren’t the only part. Economics is another one and the fact that counties in states like Wisconsin, Iowa, and others which twice voted for Obama swung this time to Trump is proof that there’s a lot more at work here than simple bigotry.
Surrendering the people of such places to Trumpism and the façade of working class populism being peddled by his Republican party is not a formula for winning the future — and I’m not just talking about elections. If we are going to advance America down the road toward more equality, justice, and sustainability — toward socialism — then we are going to need a very broad group of people on board. And that includes some Trump voters.
This might mean focusing less on the intrigues of the Democratic Party, but it doesn’t mean walling ourselves off into new micro-formations or manufactured forms of political independence which amount to isolationism and sectarianism. Of course the left and labor movement will necessarily have to intervene in the fight for control of the Democratic Party, as Sanders showed us, but that battle has to be a component of a much bigger project, one which this publication has devoted itself to for decades."
Party for Liberation and Socialism
"This election result was about turnout. Millions of poor, oppressed and working-class young people, who came out for Obama in large numbers in 2008 and 2012 were not motivated or inspired by a fundamentally untrustworthy person who has been circling in the highest summits of power for a quarter century, and is clearly the preferred candidate of the powers that be.
The shallow politics of symbolism was not sufficient to rally the Democratic base. The country did not magically all turn into Trumpites on Election Day, and there is little evidence of long-time Democrats flocking to Trump. The popular vote, when it’s all counted, may in fact show Clinton pulling even.
The far right presents a serious danger, but we will only make the problem worse if we tail behind the Democrats. By mobilizing immediately and independently against the incoming administration, we can prevent the right wing from gaining any additional traction."
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