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In reply to the discussion: Every network is showing the picture of Mike Flynn at a Putin dinner [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)But they are a very small party in the US. You can't expect to see them on the same scale as the two main parties. I am not a Green party member. But its easy to Google them to find out they have been growing slowly. And many members I'm sure work withing their local communities.
On the world stage they are in 90 countries and are a part of many government coalitions. So I guess there are some humans that don't share your distaste of them.
This is their platform I found on the Washington Greens site, many of the same issues that Democrats have:
https://greenpartywashington.org/about/
The Green Party supports grassroots citizen movements on a wide variety of issues. Green have mobilized around climate change, single payer health care, ending corporate personhood, sustainable energy sources, ending the drug war, rights for all (including marital and reproductive rights), election reforms, and strong, self-sustaining local communities. We must have more options to increase voter participation, particularly for those who feel disenfranchised. We must create alliances and change the rules that currently benefit the large corporations and the wealthy.
Again, which of those ideas do you have a problem with?
I feel I must always put a caveat on these posts to say that NO, I would not recommend voting Green over Democratic as the stakes are too high. I only hope that the Democratic leadership realizes how they have not paid enough attention to the progressive wing of their party and that along with Warren and Sanders will move back from a center/right party to a center/left party, and scoop up all those Green voters.
But to say she is a 'fucking huskster' because she dared to run for office in competition with Democrats and Republicans? Really? I'm sorry that democracy bothers you so much.