Fascism against Fascism

Green Party Presidential Candidate Removed From PA Ballot

This is the blog post for week 6

We've had a roller coaster of news this week. Trump's Taxes and Breonna Taylor's court decision rank among the most popular. What I see talked much less about is the removal of Howie Hawkins from the PA ballot. Democrats' main identity of Trump is that he is a fascist that wants complete control of the government with no one going against him. The validity of this is up for debate and there is way too much to talk about on both sides. In turn, Democrats say how they want to remove every ounce of fascism from this country and make it truly democratic.

Democrats recently sued the Green Party in PA for not signing "filing papers in person" (Washington Post). This in turn had Howie Hawkins, the Green Party presidential candidate, removed from the ballots in PA. The removal of opponents from official ballots sounds a lot like fascism, something that the Democrats seem to be abhorrently against. If they wanted the government to be truly democratic, shouldn't they allow their opponents to be on the ballots? Unfortunately, they are suing in other states as well to have third party candidates removed from official ballots.

Some will say, "Well they did not follow the rules, they should be removed." They were removed from the ballots because they did not show up in person to fill out papers. Haven't the democrats for the last 5 months been trying to change it to where people can mail in their ballots for fear of Covid-19? Why can't the Green Party do the same?

The truth is, Democrats are trying to remove third party candidates from ballots so they don't take votes away from Joe Biden. This, to me, seems very anti-democratic and go against what they have been preaching for this entire campaign season; to put an end to fascism.

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