Cornel West is best choice for president

As a former member of the St. Helena Unified School District Board of Education in Napa County, I endorse Cornel West for president of the United States. He's backed by Chris Hedges, Ralph Nader's former speech writer, former presidential candidate Jill Stein and her 2016 running mate Ajamu Baraka.

West says he will guarantee free higher education, housing and a living wage. I applaud his progressive public education agenda.

Recently, I was homeless. West says that he'll refuse to reside in the White House until everyone who wants one gets a home. To support his domestic vision, he'll tax Wall Street, end the wars and invest the peace dividend.

He'll tackle climate chaos by ending oil subsidies and shifting from extraction and emission to regenerative and renewable energy. He supports the Green New Deal to wean the U.S. from fossil fuels and drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions. It will create millions of union jobs to transition into a green economy.

We've all seen wildfires, hurricanes, heat waves and rising sea levels shrinking coastal islands. This is a direct consequence of human industrial activity. I'm a millennial and deeply concerned about the climate crisis we're leaving behind for younger generations.

America's been a perilous corporate duopolistic dictatorship for decades. West says a vote for Donald Trump or President Joe Biden is a choice between a neo-fascist catastrophe (risking the onset of a second civil war) or a neo-liberal disaster (risking a third world war). Both could lead to economic ruin and a dead planet. We must mount an anti-capitalist electoral revolt, predicated on peace and truth, against the Republican and Democratic parties.