Green Party nominee blasts America’s ‘politics of fear’
US Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein says the American democracy is run by “politics of fear” and is in need of a “moral compass.”
In an interview with ABC, Stein said Sunday that voters need to go beyond the country’s two-party system in the November election and choose a candidate that best represents their values.
“People are being thrown under the bus and they're tired of it,” Stein said. “They're tired of a rigged economy, and they're tired of a rigged political system.”
She criticized Republican nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for exploiting voters’ fears in order to win their support.
“It's been a race to the bottom between those two parties that have thrown us under the bus,” she said, adding that Trump and Clinton “have not earned our vote.”
“What we have seen over the years is that this politics of fear actually delivered everything that we were afraid of," Stein noted.
“All the reasons people were told to vote for the lesser evil, because you didn't want the offshoring of our jobs, you didn't want the massive bailouts for Wall Street. You didn't want the endless expanding wars, the attack on immigrants. That's actually what we've gotten because we, the people, have allowed ourselves to be silenced," she continued.
“That's actually what we've gotten because we, the people, have allowed ourselves to be silenced. Democracy needs a moral compass. It needs a vision, an affirmative vision of what we are about and an agenda that we can actually put forward,” Stein further explained.
The 66-year-old physician has repeatedly rejected the idea of electing “lesser of two evils,” calling it a “losing strategy.”
At a time when Trump and Clinton are focusing on terrorism and immigration as the pillars of their campaign, Stein touts an emergency job program as her main platform.
She has pledged to create new job opportunities that will also address climate change and create an emergency transition to 100 percent renewable energy.
She has also promised to battle Wall Street and big corporations, while Trump and Clinton are both accepting millions of dollars from billionaires and mega-donors to run their campaign.
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