Hanoi Jane was one of the original celebrity political activists in Hollywood.
The 86-year-old isn’t slowing down.
And Jane Fonda knocked on someone’s door and the worst possible thing happened.
Jane Fonda ramps up her involvement in the 2024 Election
Aging actress Jane Fonda has been a left-wing political activist since the 1960s.
She infamously traveled to Hanoi, North Vietnam in 1972 during the Vietnam War to support the communist government where she took a picture on top of an anti-aircraft gun, earning her the nickname “Hanoi Jane” and committing an act of treason in the process.
The 86-year-old actress has continued her radical political activism and traded supporting communists for fighting climate change.
Fonda took the year off from acting to focus on the 2024 Election.
Her political action committee, JanePAC, is backing 130 candidates in down-ballot races who are committed to ending the use of fossil fuels.
“This year I said to my agent, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t work.’ When the election is happening that’s going to determine the future, I couldn’t do it,” Fonda told CBS Saturday Morning. “I couldn’t do it. Next year I’ll do it.”
Politics is seemingly inescapable in a Presidential election year.
Fonda is using the time-tested technique of going door-to-door to canvass for the down-ballot candidates she supports.
Voters could get a knock on their door and be greeted by the actress ranting and raving about climate change this fall.
“This is the last election that can have a major effect on climate,” Fonda claimed.
Jane Fonda’s diabolic scheme to influence politics
JanePAC is pouring $4 million into often overlooked races like the school board or city council.
Fonda’s strategy is to build a bench of politicians who rise up through the ranks of power.
“That low-level candidate could, first of all, could rise up and become Governor of the state. You want to groom them to rise into leadership positions as climate champions,” Fonda said. “If we have the right people elected to office, we can do it.”
She has been arrested five times protesting climate change and even spent time in jail.
Fonda claimed the protests were about inspiring an uprising against fossil fuels.
“It was aimed not at the government. It was aimed at the great unasked,” Fonda stated. “There’s like 70% of Americans that are really concerned about the climate crisis, and when they’re asked why they don’t take action, they say, ‘Well, nobody asked.'”
Fonda discovered that protests were ineffective and realized that she needed to help install anti-fossil fuel activists in positions of power.
“Nonviolent civil disobedience and protests historically have changed history, but you need people in the halls of power with ears and a heart to hear the protests, to hear the demands,” Fonda said.
She said that it was fun going door-to-door to talk with voters.
“It’s a lot of work. Oh, it’s so much fun. Ever since I’m doing 100% of what I’m capable (of) in confronting the climate crisis, I don’t get depressed anymore,” Fonda said. “I get angry, but I’m not depressed. Hope is a muscle. It’s like the heart. It’s a muscle, and you have to activate it to feel it.”
Clearly Jane Fonda made a seamless transition from supporting communism to fighting climate change.
