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MADem

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2. "Willing to stand aside?" LOL!!!
Fri Jul 8, 2016, 02:52 PM
Jul 2016

The Green Party has been, if not ruined, held back by Jill Stein.

She is woefully incompetent. People from MA have had the opportunity to see her in action--she loves to run for offices she does not have a hope in hell of winning, and she loves to crap on the Democrats while she's doing that.

Until Jill Stein steps aside, Greens will have no hope of being taken seriously. She has exhibited no enthusiasm for growing the party from that "grass roots" that are referenced in the platform.

But Bernie Sanders as the standard bearer? Bernie Sanders doesn't subscribe to many Green Party goals--he would have to backtrack on a number of issues to fit in--and whatever one thinks of Sanders, fan or otherwise, he doesn't tend to backtrack.

If the Green Party is ever to grow, it needs to so do by being a party of principles as opposed to personalities.

In my view, anyway.

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