In two reactionary attacks on democratic rights, the Democratic Party is seeking to eliminate political challengers to its left in this fall’s midterm elections. The first is the removal of COVID whistleblower Rebekah Jones from the Florida primary ballot. The second is a protracted effort to keep the Green Party candidate for the US Senate race in North Carolina off the November ballot.
Although the Socialist Equality Party opposes the politics of both Jones (who is seeking a Democratic Party nomination) and the pro-capitalist Green Party, we defend the democratic right of third parties and independent candidates to appear on the ballot.
The nakedly undemocratic operations against their candidacies are a testament to the reactionary character of the Democratic Party and the fear within the ruling class of the growing social discontent and opposition brewing among workers seeking to break out of the straitjacket of the capitalist two-party system.
Both cases involve convoluted legal maneuvers in which there is a strong odor of criminality and dirty tricks, as the Democrats used hacked and falsified voter registration records against Rebekah Jones and impersonated Green Party petition gatherers and lied to voters in North Carolina.
On Friday, a Leon County Circuit Court Judge disqualified Rebekah Jones from running as a candidate in the state’s Democratic primary election on August 23, following a concerted intervention from Democratic Party officials. The ruling...
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