• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    The ruling parties love to smear the Greens on this side of the pond too, unfortunately

    The Greens on the USA side of the pond do a great job of smearing themselves.

    Here’s the US Green Party 2024 Presidential candidate Jill Stein having dinner with Vladimir Putin, members of Putin’s senior staff, and self admitted registered foreign agent for the Turkish government, Michael Flynn.

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 hours ago

      The critical issue with the US greens is their pathetic efforts in local organizing and their overvaluing of the presidency. Instead of trying to build power from the ground up like the DSA, they throw most of their efforts behind doomed campaigns that do nothing for anyone. Besides, the only way a party can win the presidency is by replacing another in the duopoly.

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        2 hours ago

        No the entire point of the green party in the US is to siphon left leaning voters from the Democrats.

        When you realize this, the green party in the states makes complete sense.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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        5 hours ago

        Yup, unless our electoral systems change it’s mathematically impossible for a 3rd party to do anything but spoil.