Progressive Review - The Sanders campaign is not just shaking up the Democrats. In Maine, it's caused a split in the Green party between those who want to take the fusion approach and support Sanders and those who want to run a Green candidate again. And Independent Political Report notes, "Stephanie Piddock, coordinator for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s
Democratic presidential campaign in Connecticut’s Fifth District and a
local Occupy organizer, says she plans to seek the U.S. House seat in
the district as a Green Party candidate next year....The last Green candidate in the district was Harold Burbank, who received 0.8% of the vote in his 2008 run."
One of the problems for the Greens is offered by Greg Bard: "The problem is that the Green Party has a policy that prohibits any
of its affiliate organizations from ever endorsing any candidate that is
not registered under the Green Party. So the individual registered members can't support Bernie in the
primary against Hillary because almost all states prohibit members of
one party from voting in the primary of another. Furthermore, no state
or local Green Party organization can endorse Bernie either."
5 comments:
This is why I won't support Greens. They do not stand for anything. They will become democrats if they are asked by some "charismatic" democrat. This has happened constantly.
I like Jill Stein. I liked Ralph Nader. But the indefinite program of the Greens which allows hybridization with the dems makes me phobic.
Chris Hedges has defined what socialism could mean to all of us who want justice and fair distribution of resources: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/what_it_means_to_be_a_socialist_20150920
Why is it a problem that Green Party organizations can not endorse somene in another Party? Since when have Democrats ever endorsed Greens? like never. So the only weird thing is the expectation that Green Parties would endorse Democrats. It seems like someone has had their mind colonized by the two party bullshit. Individual Greens are free to do whatever they wish. But Green parties need to keep to Green Party busines and let the democrats and republicans run their own affairs and nominate thier own candidates. Non interference in the affairs of other parties is only right and proper. We shall see you in November.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
After McCutcheon the parties are now comfortably in the bribe collection business. Sanders' amendment approach to that issue as an ally of Schumer, is nothing more than an alibi for doing nothing. Third parties that don't implement single issue voting to mobilize voter support for a bill to be passed by the existing parties, are themselves tories. There is only one move left on the chessboard but the Greens concede defeat of our democracy by blindly running their own candidates rather than swinging votes on the one issue left to dispute. This political ineptness renders them irrelevant, if not collaborationist.
What turns me away from the Greens is the advocacy of "nonviolence" without a glimmer of understanding what nonviolence is. It is not peace. It is a tactic to overcome an enemy by appealing to his conscience. Against dangerous vermin such as DaEsh or ISIS, or the filthy rich, who have no conscience, it can't work, ever.
You have to know something to stand for something.
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