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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJill has damaged the Green Party with her traitorous bullsh*t
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Why do they keep her?
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Stein is all about her and nothing about her party. ConWoman!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)P.S. Where was the fucking media? Oh that's right, given Stein all the media coverage she needed without vetting her.
But hey, e-mails and the constant trashing of HRC was just fine.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)We need to unite to offset the well-organized, well funded GOP, at least until we swing from far right destructive Congress Back to at a minimum centered, cooperative bipartisan Congress.
Freddie
(9,275 posts)Unless we had changes to our voting system like runoff voting, we have a 2-party system. One of the 2 major party candidates will win. Period. You vote for the one that is closest to your views. A protest vote is a vote for the other guy.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)I begged all I knew to NOT VOTE THIRD PARTY for the reason you mention.
JI7
(89,279 posts)Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)Any political party that only exists for a few months every four years is a joke.
There's nothing that Jill Stein did, or can do, that make that 'party' any more worthless in this country than it's always been.
In my opinion, the people that voted for Stein in the last election acted just as stupidly (probably more stupidly) than the dupes who voted for Trump because they thought it would be a good idea to have an outsider shake things up.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,258 posts)it over to spread misinformation. Good questions might be about funding, board of directors, political affiliations; outcomes.
oasis
(49,429 posts)Otherwise, what else are we to believe?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)She ran a gawd-awful campaign. Even worse than the Libertarians. And continues to be an idiot.
I really don't see the Greens as a viable choice in this country, at least not at anything beyond the local eleven. Which, given the fight we are in with the GOP, is a good thing.
JHB
(37,163 posts)Theyve had 20 years since Ralphie-boys 1996 run to build an effective liberal-left voting bloc. How have they spent that time?
After two decades, they only have about 150 elected office holders, all at local level and half in California. The handful who have ever won statewide office on their ticket either switched parties or lost their next election.
In the 4 years between Ralphies 1996 and 2000 runs neither he nor the party worked on building their base, nor cooperate with other parties where they could.
By 2000 theyd shown they couldnt get anything done. And they continued to prove it in every subsequent election by continuing to display their ineffectualness.
When theyre firing on all pistons, the Greens problem is that they want to be the lefty party in parliament, in a country that doesnt use a parliamentary system. Given that most of the time theyre not firing on all pistons, they succumb to a common failing: the membership is only lightly engaged so the leadership falls under a small claque that says the right things to get enough support to get into the top position. And then its the claques toy.
Thats why shes not gone.
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)randr
(12,417 posts)I really believed they had an important mission.
Now it is clear they have a devious mission and are impotent.
Progressive dog
(6,921 posts)Her actions and words tell us what the Green party stands for.