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In reply to the discussion: Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,693 posts)Putin would love nothing better than for liberals to be fighting each other. The Green Party and the Democratic Party share many of the same positions. The Greens may be a bit more hawkish on fighting climate change.
Yet for some on here, Jill Stein and the Greens are their biggest enemy. Just like Putin wants. Yes, lets get all hot and bothered over a party that took 1% of the vote. And black voters still overwhelmingly voted for Hillary despite these kinds of social media bltzes aimed at them.
Stein even launched a recount for Hillary, in a desparate last ditch effort to prevent Trump from taking power. Yet all she got and gets from some is derision and hatred. At least she tried! Give her some credit.
NO, don't vote Green at this time. A proportional representation voting system would be the best solution, like in Europe because then Greens could put Dems down as their second choice, and Dems could put Greens down as their second choice. And so either way, we'd have more liberal reps. And we wouldn't be spending so much time inventing fake news stories based on one public dinner invitation. Spending so much demonizing a leader of a party that shares our values, that only gets 1%. Meanwhile Libertarians are stealing 3% from mostly right wingers. Funny though, with all the conspiracy theories coming from the extreme right, I don' t hear any talk of how the Libertarian party is, say, working secretly with George Soros.
I just think its a waste of energy to invent enemies where none exist, when we have a very real enemy traitor and the support party behind him.