A large number of those in Dearborn and Michigan did what y'all could have done and saved us: voted for the Green Party, not trump. Sadly even the educated still think we should have a 2party system. How is that working for you? Neither party cares about you really. They both cater and cower to their donors, corporations and AIPAC. Green Party doesn't have PAC's or corporate donors and limit individual contributions...as they all should. We don't have a democracy. We have to step outside our blind obedience to just two parties. And that's why the Dems especially do all they can to make it hard to vote 3rd party. Also Dems promise a lot and don't deliver, just point fingers at the other party. Repubs tell you exactly what they'll do and people still vote for them. Wake up folks!
Except the Dems do deliver. Not everything, but many things. Repubs don't know how and don't really care if they do or not. Greens are small and don't have a face to their party. Jill Stein isn't impressive.
The Green party has no national power because it has no national political presence - no members of congress, no participation in influential caucuses, no governorships, no cabinet members - nuthin'. Voting Green (and I truly admire the Green ethos) for president is like voting for a telephone pole or streetlight - an exercise in futility. The way presidential power works in the USA is that a successful chief executive MUST have a cadre of powerful allies to actualize his or her agenda - lacking those powerful allies GUARANTEES that agenda will be stillborn. We need look no further than Jimmy Carter to prove this thesis - he was a Dem among other powerful Dems - but as an outsider, had not cultivated that needed cadre of powerful allies and was woefully ineffectual. The Greens - to ever have any handle on any real power MUST build a base at the school board, county commissioner, state rep level first - THEN they will have name recognition and a track record of benefitting the electorate directly - not just having great ideas. We must remember that the opposition to great ideas in this country is well intrenched, well practiced in toxic propaganda and EXTREMELY well-funded. To jump into the ring against them at the main-event level is to invite disaster again and again and again...
I have always been a BIG fan of Carter - but there is NO question that he was sandbagged throughout his administration owing to the aforementioned lack of a cadre of powerful allies...
A large number of those in Dearborn and Michigan did what y'all could have done and saved us: voted for the Green Party, not trump. Sadly even the educated still think we should have a 2party system. How is that working for you? Neither party cares about you really. They both cater and cower to their donors, corporations and AIPAC. Green Party doesn't have PAC's or corporate donors and limit individual contributions...as they all should. We don't have a democracy. We have to step outside our blind obedience to just two parties. And that's why the Dems especially do all they can to make it hard to vote 3rd party. Also Dems promise a lot and don't deliver, just point fingers at the other party. Repubs tell you exactly what they'll do and people still vote for them. Wake up folks!
Except the Dems do deliver. Not everything, but many things. Repubs don't know how and don't really care if they do or not. Greens are small and don't have a face to their party. Jill Stein isn't impressive.
Jill Stein serves as a spoiler for the Rep party!
You are right, Barb, they did deliver big---on funding a genocide and supporting a war criminal in our Congress. My apologies.
Putin-funded disrupter blocked.
One must be profoundly stupid and ignorant to think that voting for Putin's girlfriend Jill Stein would have saved us.
The Green party has no national power because it has no national political presence - no members of congress, no participation in influential caucuses, no governorships, no cabinet members - nuthin'. Voting Green (and I truly admire the Green ethos) for president is like voting for a telephone pole or streetlight - an exercise in futility. The way presidential power works in the USA is that a successful chief executive MUST have a cadre of powerful allies to actualize his or her agenda - lacking those powerful allies GUARANTEES that agenda will be stillborn. We need look no further than Jimmy Carter to prove this thesis - he was a Dem among other powerful Dems - but as an outsider, had not cultivated that needed cadre of powerful allies and was woefully ineffectual. The Greens - to ever have any handle on any real power MUST build a base at the school board, county commissioner, state rep level first - THEN they will have name recognition and a track record of benefitting the electorate directly - not just having great ideas. We must remember that the opposition to great ideas in this country is well intrenched, well practiced in toxic propaganda and EXTREMELY well-funded. To jump into the ring against them at the main-event level is to invite disaster again and again and again...
Carter had numerous accomplishments.
One of which was the establishment of the US Department of Education.
I have always been a BIG fan of Carter - but there is NO question that he was sandbagged throughout his administration owing to the aforementioned lack of a cadre of powerful allies...
Well here ya go! https://www.greenpartyus.org/greens-in-office/
And it is absolutely necessary to have someone run for President if you understand how the process is rigged against third parties.
yeah and when this 3rd party you speak of gets established the same nonsense will start and then we'll have 3 corrupt parties !!!!
As my grandmother used to say, "I wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole"