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So after the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision, I went on twitter to find out what was going on....it was essentially a decision to halt the mailing of absentee ballots until a decision was made in whether to add the Green Party candidate. The more I was on twitter the more I came across Green Party supporters and their posts...a lot of hate towards Biden and the Democrats you would have thought you were looking at a right wingers posts. This ladys dumb post caught my attention for the simple fact that she thinks by electing Joe Biden that we are making way for the Presidency of Tom Cotton.....she not even realizing that the re-election of Trump is leading the way for someone like him to be put on the SCOTUS and replacing a liberal justice, therefore overturning Roe vs Wade ...she herself not looking at the big picture
Link to tweet
JI7
(89,264 posts)from the left .
Thats what it seems like.
betsuni
(25,610 posts)irisblue
(33,021 posts)radius777
(3,635 posts)and are sympathetic to Trumpism, seeing him as a populist strongman, wishing for their own such strongman from the left.
They are fringe voters who hate Dems and should never be viewed as 'on our side' or easy votes to get. It's far easier to get moderate swing voters who are at least sensible, rather than fringe voters who could be aligned with the far left one day or the far right another (horseshoe theory).
hunter
(38,326 posts)The only differences were cosmetic.
They wore tie-dye tee shirts and jeans instead of suits.
They smoked pot instead of cigarettes.
They did not live in conventional suburban homes.
They listened to rock instead of swing.
Their girlfriends did all the cooking, cleaning, and child care.
They protested the war in Viet Nam and consumerism but they later took jobs with defense contractors and advertising agencies and voted for Reagan.
Etc.
The actual social rebels and activists were a rarer breed, and many of them did not look like hippies.
I'm a leftist and environmental extremist. If I was emperor of the U.S.A. I'd nationalize health care and ban fossil fuels. I'd disband police departments and rebuild them from the ground up. I'd tear down Confederate monuments. I'd establish steeply progressive taxes on both income and wealth.
But I'm not emperor. Therefore my politics must be practical. That's why I enthusiastically support Biden and Harris, and why I enthusiastically supported Obama.
In our political system voting "Green" is the same as not voting at all.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Hero57
(39 posts)The Green Party seems to me they are a bunch of grifters, and fascist enablers. The Republican Party pump these people up because they are always useful idiots for repub Presents and its a shame they get so many people duped in their cause. At least we know why Kayne West is running to help his friend Donald Trump, the Green Party who knows.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)She is trying to come across as smart and enlightened, but sounds like a fool....I was going to create a twitter account just to respond to her idiotic post l, but said forget it...
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)And largely funded by Republicans as well.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Ballots already gone out. If they are told to include the Greens, they have to reprint all the ballots. They have a deadline of September 17th to send the ballots out.
Now they might have to print double the ballots.
And Greens have no chance whatsoever to win anything, they are not even on the ballot in many states this time. Yet their lawsuit have created this enormous mess.
Gothmog
(145,553 posts)oasis
(49,406 posts)Le Roi de Pot
(744 posts)We need to Attack Republicans from the Right ..
Even if we peel away just a couple points ..it would be enough to counteract Green Party.