It is amazing how some get so upset here when we tell Jill Stein off!

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147. No.

I'm clearly not saying "somebody's gonna be so exhausted by writing an OP that they can't knock doors to elect Democrats."

Allow me to assist you with comprehension.

I'm saying that the Green Party platform has many positions friendly to the Democratic Party platform, which makes Green Party members and voters natural potential allies, for those whose political philosophy is: 1. About issues and 2: About moving those issues forward.

Hating and attacking everyone who doesn't follow your leaders is not a strategy to build coalitions that achieve success.

Blaming others for our own failure to achieve that success is not a winning strategy, either. I'm a proponent of small "d" democracy. I support the right of every voter to make their own reasoned choice, and If I can't convince them to vote like I want them to, that's on me, not them. There's some democratic integrity there. I'd like the big "D" Democratic party, and Democrats, to exercise some of that integrity instead of the knee-jerk blame and hate reaction which doesn't involve reason. It's not about Stein, and it's never been about Stein. It's about winning the minds and votes of more people.

"Tiny little handful?" fyi: DU is not even a tiny little handful in the population of voters in the U.S. that need to be reached out to.

The energy spent in throwing spittle and hate at those we didn't win is better spent figuring out why we didn't win them, and doing a better job, not at driving them further away. Some simple common sense.