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Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
2. Apparently she hated HRC more than loving her country.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 03:07 PM
Feb 2018


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)
15. Jill Stein is a traitor, a fool, or something in between but she got close to ZERO US media coverage
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 04:42 PM
Feb 2018

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
3. Presidential election Third parties are not helpful at this time in history, imho.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 03:07 PM
Feb 2018

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)
7. I wish people could get this
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 03:22 PM
Feb 2018

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.

Captain Stern

(2,201 posts)
14. Pretty much what I was going to say.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 04:24 PM
Feb 2018

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

(4,251 posts)
5. Maybe it's similar to Scientology owning the Cult Awareness Network? They bankrupted it, then took
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 03:12 PM
Feb 2018

it over to spread misinformation. Good questions might be about funding, board of directors, political affiliations; outcomes.

oasis

(49,409 posts)
6. If there's Stein statement denouncing the Russianbots, let's see it.
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 03:22 PM
Feb 2018

Otherwise, what else are we to believe?

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
8. Yes she did
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 03:24 PM
Feb 2018

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

(37,162 posts)
9. Myopia and ego, as usual
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 03:45 PM
Feb 2018

They’ve had 20 years since Ralphie-boy’s 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 Ralphie’s 1996 and 2000 runs neither he nor the party worked on building their base, nor cooperate with other parties where they could.

By 2000 they’d shown they couldn’t get anything done. And they continued to prove it in every subsequent election by continuing to display their ineffectualness.

When they’re firing on all pistons, the Greens’ problem is that they want to be the lefty party in parliament, in a country that doesn’t use a parliamentary system. Given that most of the time they’re 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 it’s the claque’s toy.

That’s why she’s not gone.


randr

(12,415 posts)
12. There was a time I respected the Green Party
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 04:06 PM
Feb 2018

I really believed they had an important mission.
Now it is clear they have a devious mission and are impotent.

Progressive dog

(6,918 posts)
13. Stein is the perfect person to represent the Green Party in the USA
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 04:18 PM
Feb 2018

Her actions and words tell us what the Green party stands for.

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