If you ever voted for a Green Party candidate, or worse, donated to one....

[Ken Burch]

7. Ok...it would be better if nobody had ever voted for a Green Party presidential candidate.

Obviously agreed.

But are you extending your OP to demonize anybody who ever voted for a Green candidate at ANY level of electoral politics? To, say, a municipal election where the Dem nominee was anti-progressive or corrupt or deadwood?

And if you want people who did vote Green in a race like that, do you really think you can make them vote Dem in all races by demonizing them about past votes? Have you ever heard of us winning one election by shaming people for not voting for us in all races in every election in the past?

Do you also apply this philosophy to anybody who actually voted Republican in the past? Seems to me none of the people who vilify those who vote Green ever did that to Dems who voted for either Bush or Reagan(or those who were "Democrats for Nixon&quot . Were their voting decisions somehow LESS shameful?

Why focus on demanding repentance for past voting choices of ONE, but not all groups of voters, rather than taking a hard look at why we have lost votes to third parties in difference contests in the past?

It isn't sustainable to simply demand that everybody on the progressive of the spectrum OWES our candidates support in every race in every election, no matter what, until the GOP simply vanishes from the electoral map.. What IS sustainable, what IS workable, is to listen to the people whose votes we didn't get(while still centering the wishes of those who do-and that's an easy thing, because most of those who DO vote for us no matter what want us to be a more progressive, more egalitarian, more small-d democratic party)
and making some effort to show we've listened and are going to be open to what they want from politics.

The country is moving towards us. Let's win by winning the argument.