"How has Stein fared as a leader? By AOC’s perfectly reasonable standard, she’s done abysmally. As of July 2024, a mere 143 officeholders in the United States are affiliated with the Green Party. None of them are in statewide or federal offices. In fact, no Green Party candidate has ever won federal office. And Stein’s reign has been a period of indisputable decline, during which time the party’s membership—which peaked in 2004 at 319,000 registered members—has fallen to 234,000 today.

This meager coalition can’t possibly kick-start a legitimate political movement, capable of organizing voters and advancing ideas outside of perennial electoral events. It’s just large enough, however, to spoil the work of those who put in this kind of work."

  • @SoylentBlake@lemm.ee
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    04 months ago

    Liberals are center right.

    It’s easiest to understand liberals once you realize that they are rich, fat, lazy and addicted to money like it’s some kind of supadupa fentysmack. They’re conciliatory to social change, they don’t give two shits just gotta keep the markets open. Marry your couch, whatever JD, liberals don’t care. But they are turnstiles to business interests. To the detriment of the populace. They could know 3M is making Dioxin micro plasty bottle nipples and libs wouldn’t say shit until it became a public uproar. Theyll bend to the winds, to stay in power, but they’ll NEVER instigate change until their political life depends on it. This isn’t unique to America. The same story plays out the same way with the Labor party in the UK, in AUS, CAN, FR, DE. Liberals are the same everywhere.

    Feckless and milquetoast. Diet Fascism. And yes 100% liberals are diet fascists. They live on their knees in the shadow of corporations never feeling the warmth of the sun. Every now and then one of the multinationals will drop them a tissue, if they’ve been good little bitches.

    Who dafaq do you think funds the fascists? Fascism is the ruling party infecting democracy like that fungus does to ants. Zombie democracy. All to retain their privilege position because the working class has had enough and starts demanding a more democratic economy. Every wedge issue is inflamed, every ancient prejudice kicked back open with their stirrups as they assfuck us all to an early grave.

    This same pattern has played out numerous times. We have the choice of jumping into the deep end or locked into the wave pool distracted into not noticing the waters rising until it’s too late and we’re too exhausted. Either way we end up underwater.

    The only hope you can afford has to be backed up by bullets. Like theirs is. Life sucks, rarely do you get to define the parameters of a fight, almost always they’ll be decided for you. So don’t hesitate on some fantasy high road when the time comes.

    • Maeve
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      14 months ago

      I think they stopped being center-right with Clinton.