The Lesser Evil Is Over. On With the Greater Good!
 by Jill Stein, our past Presidential and Gubernatorial candidate and a valued speaker at major peace forums in 2023

In so many critical arenas where Democrats have been described as the “lesser evil”, such claims no longer pass the laugh test. This is not to say Republicans are better, but rather that both corporate parties are unacceptable, as they are each driving the existential crises we’re facing—from endless war to crushing inequality, climate collapse, and the assault on democracy. These policy debacles have made the “lesser evil” concept obsolete, and make our fight for independent Green politics more essential than ever.

Democrats, for example, are leading the charge on not one but two deadly cold wars, and Biden's latest military budget is the biggest in history. The Democrats have abandoned their traditional defense of press freedom and led the recent McCarthyite Congressional attack on journalists who've exposed censorship and disinformation committed by Twitter and US security agencies. The Democrats fully supported the recent bipartisan assault on rail workers' right to strike and share joint responsibility for neglecting safety regulations leading to the New Palestine disaster. In using war to justify a massive increase in fossil fuel infrastructure and emissions, the Democrats have also effectively abandoned their climate agenda.

For these and many other reasons, we urgently need independent, Green voices and solutions, not controlled by either corporate party. We must challenge this accelerating drift toward catastrophe with the Green agenda that puts people, planet and peace over profit. In short, the mythology of the lesser evil is effectively over. It's time to double down for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because indeed they do.