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In reply to the discussion: Green Party planning to sabotage midterms and 2020 elections (NYT). [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)6. People need to let themselves stop being fooled by them
Their only role seems to be as a Presidential Election spoiler- to weaken the Democratic candidate and allow the Republican candidate to win, so they can spend the next 4 years having somebody to fight and fundraise against (although they will still spend just as much and maybe more time attacking Democrats whom won't have any real power to do anything). They'd be more at home in the Democratic Party if they wouldn't keep attacking the party and demanding purity tests and fealty to their stances no matter how impossible it is to enact all of their agenda overnight and in exactly the way they want it.
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The progressive activists: "Democratic Party was their foe and decided to quit it."
honest.abe
Aug 2018
#7
sadly they might do better than a Green candidate and win in some places.
rogue emissary
Aug 2018
#39
Your framing is bullshit. I've never voted green, but do you have something proving the intent
JCanete
Aug 2018
#30
I will argue untill my face turns blue with anyone who intends to vote Green this November
Tom Rinaldo
Aug 2018
#33