Regretfully I announce that Alice Bach & I will not continue to run a joint campaign for president & vice-president. While I am running against the political compromises of lesser evil politics, Alice is actively campaigning for Bernie Sanders. We have a different kind of socialism, an incompatible kind of socialism. So it’s better we remain united in activism around issues we agree about but not in a joint electoral campaign.

Many may think me intolerant of differences. But I simply cannot support a candidate of the Democratic Party since I have seen the destruction it has wrought on civil rights, women’s rights, & antiwar protest. Most importantly, I cannot support a candidate who advocates drone bombing, votes for wars, supports Israeli apartheid & bantustates for Palestinians, & opposes undocumented immigrants because they threaten the integrity of the nation-state. If that’s intolerant, so be it.

There are more photojournalist reports of men scuffling in the refugee camps than there are of the squalid conditions creating misery & tension–including no sanitation, no place to poop, no way to shower, not enough food, inadequate healthcare, & having to scrounge for scrap wood to keep warm.

Most of the scuffles appear to be around the distribution of food rations. Of course. People are hungry & cold. Their kids are crying, getting sick, increasingly coming down with respiratory infections. They’re living in flimsy, overcrowded tents. Everybody’s traumatized & scared & they’ve got nothing to do but wait. They have no idea what will happen to them. Will their elderly & infirm survive? Will their kids ever get over the nightmares? Will they be deported back to war zones? How long will this ordeal last?