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In reply to the discussion: Jill Stein's latest victory lap demonstrates she was in favor of Trump the entire time. [View all]haele
(12,676 posts)the Green party uses an "Establishment" party format rather than the Democratic Party's Coalition format, focusing on generic "National" identity issues rather than local issues.
The Democratic party will put up with Blue Dogs, Yellow Dogs, Corporate Asses - you name it - so that the Democratic party can progress as a coalesced unit with everyone feeling the pain while going forward. The Democratic loyalties are local, which is why you can get Rahm Emmanuel, Clair McCaskill, Kamala Harris, Al Franken, Paul Wellstone (RIP), Joe Manchin, John Lewis, Tammy Duckworth, Martin O'Malley, Hillary (and Bill) Clinton, Howard Dean, and Barak Obama all working together in the same party. A wide range of Liberal and Conservative, Moderates, Social Issues, Economic Issues, Constitutional Issues - and Regional Issues all together as parts of an almost parliamentary machine.
Everything I've seen and read about the Green Party in the U.S. is that their hierarchy demands pretty much lockstep policy and party platforms. Just as the Republicans do. So anyone with half an understanding of politics will not be surprised that the Greens will never want to work with the Democrats. As with modern Republicans, it's all or nothing, and from everything I've observed, the Greens want to set themselves up as the heirs of the Democrats rather than a viable alternative that will work with the Dems - to push the Democrats more from Center to the Left.
Haele