Opinion | Why Don’t More Progressive Candidates Speak Out Against the War Machine?

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Opinion | Why Don’t More Progressive Candidates Speak Out Against the War Machine?
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A survey of progressive House aspirants finds that a majority make no mention of U.S. military or foreign policies

, with a video she posted to her Instagram page in 2019 with the hashtag #dropbootiesnotbombs, showing her stripping off her uniform and gyrating in her red lingerie to Edwin Starr’s hit song “War” at an anti-war burlesque show at a Brooklyn bar.

Our Revolution, to my surprise, has so far endorsed only three hopefuls for the House, all in Texas and all silent on military or foreign-policy matters. Unfortunately, I doubt Hunt has much of a chance: she’s a white woman challenging a Black man in a majority Black district, and a political novice up against an incumbent who was first elected to office in 1980. On top of all that, much of the media coverage of her campaign that I’ve seen focuses not on her stands on issues, but on the fact that she worked as a stripper during her college years. is challenging incumbent Rep.

, whose platform is more extensive but consists mostly of centrist Democratic talking points. As for, neither’s website includes an “Issues” page at all. No doubt all of these candidates would make better Senators than their Republican adversaries, but none seems likely to stand up to the war machine.

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