To grasp hold of power, you need money. With that money, you can then manipulate the political power to your advantage. Hardly do you ever see an individual in the US senate, presidents of any country, or a person in the current power structures who is not filthy rich.
As for the alternative party thought, we cannot just reduce it to “basically changing the names.” The Green Party in the United States changes perceptions, priorities, and many of the issues that are now status quo. Their candidate for presidency is a Black woman (not just one, but two of the characteristic most people were hung up on with the Democratic nominees). There is always the concern of course that the political system in which the Green Party exists in might eventually lead it to become another scenario of “changing the names,” but we have to start somewhere. Perhaps this somewhere is to demand and work for equal TV air-time for the alternative or other political parties, have these candidates tell us what they think. Most people do not even know that the Green Party’s candidate is a brilliant Black woman.
Change is slow, very slow. But unless we start somewhere, unless we decide to stop choosing the better of too evils for the fear of evil, change will not occur at all.
