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."

  • @blazeraEnglish
    -51•17 hours ago

    Can you imagine if you campaigned against trump half as much as you campaign against progressive parties?

    • themeatbridge
      47•16 hours ago

      Jill Stein is a lot of things, but “progressive” ain’t one of 'em. I’d love for Harris and the Dems to be more progressive, but they’re going to need a better example than Stein.

        • @halcyoncmdrEnglish
          4•11 hours ago

          Ah yes, the platform of a candidate that does not have a chance at win ing, even by mistake, and can say whatever the fuck they want because of it.

          • @blazeraEnglish
            2•8 hours ago

            Lets elect them so we can see who’s right

        • @shalafiEnglish
          -15•13 hours ago

          No one is going to read that, let alone answer you. See, this is a Stein hate thread, you’ve already lost the game.

          (I know nothing about her.)

          • the post of tom joad
            4•13 hours ago

            And while your first point is sound, the buried lede, (the part in parenthesis) is the real point, isn’t it?

            dems itt maybe knew her name before the party started smearing her. wonder how many will ever bother to look her up?

    • @almar_quigley
      37•16 hours ago

      Can you imagine if Jill Stein was progressive? Yeah me neither…

        • @blazeraEnglish
          -18•14 hours ago

          Man the anti-stein crowd cant tolerate the most basic of questions

          • @shalafiEnglish
            7•13 hours ago

            OP pointed a big red arrow at Stein’s stated beliefs, there’s your answer. Anything to say except, “Nuh uh!”?

            • @blazeraEnglish
              -12•13 hours ago

              I dont believe there is a single stated belief from Stein in the entire article

                • @blazeraEnglish
                  0•8 hours ago

                  Ah its that darn work experience required but how do you get work experience paradox.

                  By this logic we should never elect new politicians.

                  • @[email protected]
                    1•8 hours ago

                    Has she held any positions at all? What does she do between running for president?

                    22 years of campaigning, and never once held any office whatsoever. Truly a great leader!

    • the post of tom joad
      -27•16 hours ago

      Or if for policies popular with a wide swath of America? Naw. I believe what MSNBC and all the real adults in the room agree with:

      Our party should ebrace moderate Republicans! Smear the greens! Keep leftist spoiler parties off the ballot! Dismiss Dem party dissidents as traitors and foreign assets! This is what real leftists do. All leftists to the left of me are actually to the right.

      I would know, i’m a Democrat, and I’m as left as they come

      • @barsquid
        8•13 hours ago

        Oh, yeah, me too, I am a very far left lefty. That’s why when it comes to elections I ignore groups like Uncommitted and instead vote how the furthest right group wants lefties to vote.