With membership at new lows and no electoral wins to their name, it’s time for the Greens to ditch the malignant narcissist who’s presided over its decline.

"How has Stein fared as a leader? By AOC’s perfectly reasonable standard, she’s done abysmally. As of July 2024, a mere 143 officeholders in the United States are affiliated with the Green Party. None of them are in statewide or federal offices. In fact, no Green Party candidate has ever won federal office. And Stein’s reign has been a period of indisputable decline, during which time the party’s membership—which peaked in 2004 at 319,000 registered members—has fallen to 234,000 today.

This meager coalition can’t possibly kick-start a legitimate political movement, capable of organizing voters and advancing ideas outside of perennial electoral events. It’s just large enough, however, to spoil the work of those who put in this kind of work."

  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Which makes me wonder how you can be so smarmy with every sentence that you type. Your people skills leave much to be desired.

    No self awareness on your projection here? Lol

    You also said:

    there is a baseline level of education that should be a requirement to vote.

    I don’t want your vote to count alongside mine

    Giving people rights and hoping they know what to do with them is how we ended up with Trump in office.

    So you DO want to tell people who to vote for?

    Ps Red Herring is a literary device. You mean strawman, I think.

    Pss you may want to rethink your use of chief and yellow

    Reddit and LSC was taken over by rightwingers, this is known. Can’t go back bc everyone was banned for being leftwing. Literally, it was a scandal on a different small reddit that also got banned. Ironically, I was permabanned for advocating that people go vote. This was not a bannable position in 2016, when 60% of the sub was pro-Bernie.

    Since you’re blocking me anyway, I’m not going to take a lot of time with your comment. I will say that you misunderstood the example of a dogwhistle I was using regarding pink triangle - which I used because I thought you wouldn’t be anti-queer and would notice it.

    A good judge for ableism, I’d if you’re saying something a Nazi would also say to justify gassing a prisoner. So lazy - yup. Incompetent -yup. Just has to be reactionary regarding someones abilities and hostile - hostility is an invitation to violence.

    I’ve responded to every insipid argument you’ve made, and nothing you’ve said can be taken out of context. You are not the person you seem to think you are. You manipulate and twist words to serve your own ends, and people like you are the reason we have a lot of the issues we do. I’m gonna go ahead and block you now, so feel free to have the last word, I won’t try to stop you.

    Here, try reading this again, the irony is really too funny:

    Your people skills leave much to be desired.

    Lol

    Okay, block me, that was always allowed.