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Benjamin Meiklejohn: "I'm leaning towards voting for Bernie in the Green
caucuses. I'm not going to leave the party. I'm going to encourage all
the Green Bernie supporters to do the same. We have serious work to do
with retention of our members. A Green strategy will be to retain, not
exile, all our Bernie supporters and give them hope that Maine could
send a majority of delegates to the national convention to vote for
Bernie as a symbol of support. Otherwise, without incorporating room for
Bernie supporters to remain in our party, kiss goodbye to a huge
portion of our members. The Green Party should at least be big enough to
not reprimand those among our ranks who want to actively support
Bernie. Of they can do it without leaving the party at all, there's the
best situation possible."
6 comments:
Voting for Bernie at the Green Party convention would be very stupid. I am not for isolating Greens who support Bernie in the Democratic primaries but voting for Bernie at the Green party convention is a deliberate attempt to reduce the party to a joke. If someone is unwilling to seek the Green party nomination, they should not get any votes at the Green party convention. I think it weird to offer the nomination to anyone who will not seek it. I view this the same i viewed not putting Nader on the Green convention ballot unless he actually sought the nomination. If you are not a part of the party, we do not want you as the nominee and putting them on the convention ballot is a slap at all the Greens who are working for GREEN candidates.
There is a need for THIRD party. People have put in hard work to get Jill Stein and Ralph Nader on ballots across the country, but unfortunately people like the author of this post throw all this hard work away by falling into the trap set by people like Bernie Sanders and Dennis Kucinich.
Having fallen before for the trap that the Green Party has become (posing as an alternative to the Dems and then caving) I am very leary of supporting them.
Independence is the only answer to the corrupt system we are presented with. If you want to swim in the sewer with people like Hillary Clinton and her acolyte Bernie Sanders (pledged to support her after primaries), go right ahead. Just because you are are wrapped in the Green Party banner, don't expect me to pull you out.
In many ways the Green Party is a joke. As well meaning as many of its supporters may be, the party has yet to seriously establish itself outside of a few cosmopolitan areas. For all practical purposes it does not really exist is the Great Heartland, or even for that matter in the more rurally oriented states elsewhere. They've yet to establish the party for valid write-in status in many states---in other words, a Green write-in can invalidate a citizen's entire ballet.
hat good is that? Efforts to establish contact with Green headquarters on a state, and often even on the national, levels often proves impossible. All of this poses an important question: If a group is unable to create vital organizations at these lesser levels, what, then, qualifies them to be considered reliable enough to organize and lead a government?
There is strength through unity. Bernie Sanders has a proven track record of having stood for essentially all of those values Greens espouse. He has managed to place himself in a position of the greatest advantage to champion and represent those same values at the very highest level. It is foolishness not to extend every ounce of effort available on his behalf.
Feel the Bern.
Strength through unity---Power to the people.
For the Green Party to endorse a candidate at this late date would be like Washington volunteering to lead the British troops in 1776. The Greens should be focused on leading the nation to reject
anyone running for president, including Sanders, who will not immediately abrogate Buckley and restore the franchise.
The Greens are the bank customer in line behind the bank robber. Sorry, the teller window is now closed. Either the Greens get obnoxiously rejectionist (like the yippies, John Adams) or they need to find someone to the left of Trump, maybe Jesse Jackson or Jimmy Carter or both.
The mission for the Greens, should they accept it, is to break the duopoly, much as the Republicans broke the Whigs and splintered the Dems. You do this by attacking the Dems and GOP
on the existential issue they cannot compromise on. In the 1850s the duopoly was compromised on slavery, today it is money in politics. The Greens would not run their own candidates but would organize 20% of voters to align on legislation ending money in politics. The duopoly candidates who balk, have their careers ended. The Dems and GOP held hostage by the electorate either do what the Greens say or are punished in the next election. The point is to get exclusive public funding. But alas, the Greens lack a winning strategy as Sun Tzu taught. Perot already got 20% of voters on this issue but made the mistake of running as a candidate. The successful third party will be like train robbers, just stopping the action long enough to pull the money out of it. To get enmeshed in partisanship is what the founders warned not to do, and is irrelevant to a constitutional crisis such as currently prevails, pitting the duopoly against the electorate. Greens do not need to run for election, but rather could help restore a political culture in which genuine elections could take place.
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