Green Party, Eyeing the 2020 Presidential Race, Prepares for the Midterms (224 candidates)

NY Times ^ | 8/01/18 | Liam Stack

[Libloather]

SALT LAKE CITY — The progressive activists who gathered in Utah two weeks ago to strategize for the midterm elections could each recall a moment when they realized the Democratic Party was their foe and decided to quit it.

For Kenneth Mejia, 27, who ran for Congress as a Democratic write-in candidate two years ago, it happened when the party declined to include policies that inspire him — like single payer health care and a ban on fracking — in its 2016 party platform.

For Diane Moxley, 49, who canvassed for Barack Obama in 2008, it was when the Occupy Wall Street movement introduced her to others who shared her unease with the party’s acceptance of corporate donor money.

[Libloather]

And for Rodolfo Cortes Barragan, 30, who wept when Al Gore lost the 2000 election, the moment came when Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton for president at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. It is an event he calls “the Wells Fargo Center incident,” named for the convention’s location.

Freeloading plants do cry.

[NohSpinZone]

[MV=PY]

"“Regular working people, families, are not being represented by the government in Washington right now,” said Mr. Cortes Barragan, a psychologist who is living with his parents while he pays off $40,000 in student loans. “That is because the Democratic Party followed the Republican Party in aligning itself with corporate America.”"

LOL!

Let's hope they dilute the Dem vote.

[Leaning Right]

Today's Democrat party is corrupt and unresponsive. So be sure to remind all of your liberal acquaintances:

[Trumpet 1]

It appears that there are at least a few Greens who actually believe in the Communist propaganda that the Eco-Freeks are enunciating. May the Greens get as many Democrat votes as possible for an eventual Trump Victory.

[Dilbert San Diego]

This is an interesting development.

Is the green party growing stronger, because the Democrats just aren’t liberal enough?

And what about people such as Ocasio-Cortez? She says she’s a DEMOCRAT SOCIALIST, as I recall, not just a Democrat? She won the Democratic primary but she doesn’t think of herself as just a Democrat.

The coalitions which make up the Democrats may be splintering, as some radical types decide that the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer just aren’t liberal enough.

Stay tuned.

[alloysteel]

The great thing about the Green Party is that the Democrat Socialists have somewhere to go when the (sort of) regular Democrats receive the drubbing they justly deserve at the polls in November 2018.

The “blue tide” will be an ebb tide. Tsunami it ain’t.

[nwrep]

Regardless of his personal circumstances, I am not sure he is that far from the truth in what he says...

[Dilbert San Diego]

Has a Green party member ever won an election?

I think I heard a couple of libertarian candidates have won some city council or state legislature seats.

On the one hand, it can be good in the short term to see these minor parties siphon support from Democrats. On the other hand, it’s troubling if we see critical masses eventually supporting these radical political parties.

[Leaning Right]

> it’s troubling if we see critical masses eventually supporting these radical political parties <

I’ve thought about that. But in today’s America, political campaigns are fueled by money. You need big bucks to win. I don’t see how the Greens could ever attract that kind of money, on a consistent basis.

But then again, Bernie came close...so maybe you do have a point.

[MV=PY]

"Regardless of his personal circumstances, I am not sure he is that far from the truth in what he says..."

I guess so, maybe he'll fix it! Would you vote for him?

I was trying to point out the irony that he's standing up for under-represented working folks while he sponges off his parents.

[Walrus]

Those inane, narcissistic a-holes will ONLY siphon of Democrat votes.

Go get ‘em greenies!!!

[Walrus]

Those inane, narcissistic a-holes will ONLY siphon of Democrat votes.

Go get ‘em greenies!!!

[SunkenCiv]

That gives the DNC a couple of years to crush the life out of the insurgents. It'll be easy, because they'll point to the disaster of 2018 (it's coming) as well as the failure to elect Hitlery in 2016. Thanks Libloather.

[Steven Scharf]

Has a Green party member ever won an election?

Yes, John Eder was elected to the Maine State House in 2002 from Portland. He served two terms. He and several others have also been elected to the non partisan school board and city council. He recently lost a democrat primary for the school board in Biddeord Maine where he moved to recently.

[Steven Scharf]

Has a Green party member ever won an election?

Yes, John Eder was elected to the Maine State House in 2002 from Portland. He served two terms. He and several others have also been elected to the non partisan school board and city council. He recently lost a democrat primary for the school board in Biddeord Maine where he moved to recently.

[Vigilanteman]

“That is because the Democratic Party followed the Republican Party in aligning itself with corporate America.”

Well, snowflake, that happened way back when corporate America got the Clinton's to okay mega mergers of banks and oil companies over two decades ago.

It only accelerated under ObaMao. Why do you think the GOP has been SERIOUSLY outspent on every presidential election since the Arkansas Mafia came to town back in 1993?