Green Party Nominee Jill Stein Invites Bernie Sanders To Take Over Ticket

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41. Well, last I checked - and it's been quite awhile, so I could be wrong:

1) Greens are strongly anti-nuclear power and strongly anti fossil fuels

2) Greens strongly oppose the death penalty

3) Greens campaign on removing ALL restrictions on funding abortions. I'm guessing "repeal the Hyde amendment" and "repeal all restrictions on abortion", are not in the Dem platform. (although a majority of Dems would probably support that)

4) Greens, naturally, support election reform such as instant-runoff voting, which would give 3rd parties more of a chance in our system (where currently they have none, except in rare situations.)

-- for just the first four I can think of.

That said, if you read their platform (I won't link to it, it's easy enough to find their website), while it sounds great (if you like that sort of thing, and I do like much of it), they have no workable idea how to get there from here. I'm not sure "there" is even physically possible at all, but if you think about the kind of things that would have to happen to get there ... nope. Then factor in that there is ZERO chance that they can get anyone elected nationally. The way our elections work, unfortunately a vote for a 3rd party candidate such as a Green, most likely will help elect the Republican.

I just want to add to the "no workable idea how to get there" comment - they also, at least nearly all of the Greens I've ever talked to, don't give a single f*ck what happens to people whose lives would get turned upside down by the drastic changes they would make, even the children of those folks, because they don't see those people as people. They see them as "evil" and "deserve what's coming to them", never mind that for the most part we are talking about people who are playing by the rules as they exist today. I'm sure that kind of callousness is not formally in their platform, but you can read it between the lines. I don't buy into that. Whatever changes are made, we have to help as much as possible to keep people from being caught in the gears. For example if you are going to shut down coal mines, how do you help coal mining families transition? I'm not saying Dems do that well either. I wish they did. But electing Dems will give you a better possibility of it than voting Green.