• Hildegarde@lemmy.world
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    9 天前

    the green party has nominated a candidate, and ran in every single presidential election since 1996. why would they suddenly decide to drop out now?

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      9 天前

      They should drop out because they have no path to victory, typically capture <1% of the vote, peaked at 2.7%, have no Senate seats, no house seats, no governorships - state or territorial, no chambers seats - upper or lower… But most importantly, they’re siphoning votes away from the more progressive viable option, providing meaningful support to the worst possible option in doing so.

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        8 天前

        those are not circumstances unique to this election.

        if the democrats are running a campaign that cannot succeed without a third party abandoning the strategy they’ve been using constantly for the past 28 years, they have already lost.

        the greens are not a chaotic force doing unpredictable things. if democrats don’t account for the greens doing what they always do, its their own fault if they lose.

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          8 天前

          Yes - the Democrats are at fault for arrogantly running an ineffective campaign like the institutionalists they are, and the Greens are at fault for aiding a hostile state actor and the unabashed fascists.

          Both are bad, though not in a comparable way.