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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently made headlines for calling perennial Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein “predatory” and “not serious.” AOC is right.

Giving voters more choices is a good thing for democracy. But third-party politics isn’t performance art. It’s hard work — which Stein is not doing. As AOC observed: “[When] all you do is show up once every four years to speak to people who are justifiably pissed off, but you're just showing up once every four years to do that, you're not serious.”

To be clear: AOC was not critiquing third parties as a whole, or the idea that we need more choices in our democracy. In fact, AOC specifically cited the Working Families Party as an example of an effective third party. The organization I lead, MoveOn, supports their 365-day-a-year efforts to build power for a pro-voter, multi-party system. And I understand third parties’ power to activate voters hungry for alternatives: I myself volunteered for Ralph Nader in 2000, and that experience helped shape my lifelong commitment to people-first politics.


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[-] blazera@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah i bet she wont even try to get elected next year

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[-] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

AOC is not serious. She went to the border to see the conditions under trump and cry on camera but never went back to see if conditions were still bad under biden. She doesn't care about border conditions it was just a partisan stunt.

She's clearly running defense for kamala by ridiculously claiming that kamala is "working tirelessly" for a ceasefire in gaza.

Jill Stein and the green party do not "just show up" every 4 years, they are always putting in the work but they only get media attention once every 4 years because there's a presidential election.

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[-] forrcaho@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

John Oliver convinced me that Jill Stein is a dumbfuck back in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3O01EfM5fU

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Bernie Sanders was not able to change the system from the inside after spending his entire life compromising with Democrats. It is hard to take these "progressive" Democrats seriously.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Let me quote just one line from the Wikipedia entry

Sanders is credited with influencing a leftward shift in the Democratic Party after his 2016 presidential campaign

You can also look at his legislative history to see that he’s been pretty successful pulling progressive Democrats along, regardless of not changing the electoral system or getting nominated

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[-] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I’m planning on voting for the party for socialism and liberation in November and you can too!

They’re running Claudia de la Cruz on a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to arms shipments to Israel.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Even if Jill was elected, all she has is ablism and transphobia

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[-] Soup@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. That woman is always vapor until an election year.

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

This is a lot of reading for so early in the morning. I’ll wait for the Jon Oliver expose on her. His RFK episode didn’t disappoint.

[-] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 8 points 1 year ago

The post-Nader Green Party is a joke, but the DNC is the party of Reagan and Cheney, so... Those in glass political parties that serve only to undermine the left electorate's political power shouldn't throw stones

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