The Green Party is an enduring fraud and con job on the left largely on the strength of its promotion by magazines of the left and a few media sources. It should have been obvious after the first ten years that it was going nowhere and it was already serving a counter-productive role in liberal politics. Yet we're still promoting the delusional belief that voting for Greens isn't the same thing as voting for a Republican.
Not voting for the best you can get and getting the worst you can is the real life result when your dream candidate couldn't possibly win the election. That is the real reality, the famous remark by Eugene Debs about "voting for what you don't wnat" would prove to be seriously flawed idea several years later as the Socialist Party he was promoting with it was destroyed from the left. The John Reed faction apparently didn't think that the Debs-Berger faction, which was actually winning elections and holding local office, weren't what they wanted so they elected to destroy Debs' party. The reason I keep dealing with this, having to repeat the history exposing their con job is because the lefty magazines, webzines and social media are still selling the same old moldy lies that the Green Party is a real party worth voting for. It isn't. The Green Party is a fraud and not worthy of anybody's vote.
By the way, I suspect that some of the money people stupidly give to the Green Party goes to paid trolling, I suspect Aeardyaark is a paid troll who changes names frequently. When I checked his/her Disqus account there were about 100 comments they had made, a pretty sure sign of something like that.
Aeardvaark peterjohn936 • 15 hours ago
You can't compare the prospect of a third party candidate, in this election, with prior ones. Now, both candidates from the major parties are historically disliked by the majority of the electorate. A Green Party ticket would have a real chance against those two, in these unique circumstances.
Anthony_McCarthy Aeardvaark • 37 minutes ago
The Green Party doesn't run presidential candidates for them to win, they run presidential candidates with the pretense they can win in order to get enough votes for the party name to appear on future ballots so they can still pretend to be a party to get donations from people who are comfortable enough and contented enough to not care if we have another Republican horror as president.
After thirty years it's time to call the Green Party what it is, a con job to keep the people who make money at the top making money.
Tell everyone, after those three decades, how many Greens hold public office. Last time I looked it was about seventy in the entire country, all of them on the local level, some of them in local non-partisan elections, some appointed to obscure boards where you can be pretty sure they only got on because they were the only ones who volunteered to go on them. And that total is about half of what they had at the height of their achievement when they had about 142 such local office holders. The highest office yet achieved by a Green is the single legislative seat they had in Maine held by John Eder, from Portland, Maine and he lost that seat exactly a decade ago.
And that is the party that is striving mightily to enable the election of Donald Trump just as they did George W. Bush, the previous high water mark in degenerate right wing politics in this country. There is every reason to suspect that Trump might outdo him as the same cryptofascists who ran George W. would run Trump only worse. Even the worst of the Republican Party in 2000 didn't have the FOX - Koch invented Tea Party faction running it. Well that's what we'll get if the Greens have their way this time.
It is time to get rid of the Greens, it is the most cynical con job on the left, it deserves to go the way of all third party con jobs, just end it.
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