Did the Green Party's pro-Putin stance doom it?

[publicunofficial]

The Green's have no infrastructure, disappear outside of presidential election cycles, make no real attempt to do things like run against Democrats in Safe seats that Republicans leave unopposed, ect.  They exist only to soak up money, votes, and media attention from leftist causes that actually DO things.

[publicunofficial]

The Green's have no infrastructure, disappear outside of presidential election cycles, make no real attempt to do things like run against Democrats in Safe seats that Republicans leave unopposed, ect.  They exist only to soak up money, votes, and media attention from leftist causes that actually DO things.

They also exist to give far lefties a candidate they can feel-good about voting for. "I didn't vote for those evil corporate Democrats, I voted Green!" I understand the sentiment, but you and others are absolutely right that Greens as a party have zero interest in accomplishing anything. I've seen them called a vanity party, and that seems about right to me.

Another thing with the Green's is that a lot of green party candidates are just very progressive Democrats. They're not really all that ideologically different.

Did Jill Stein ever advocate seizing the means of production? No.

[publicunofficial]

Actually yes they are quite different, i don't recall the Democrats pandering to anti-vaccine fearmongers or 9/11 "truthers", praising Putin's seizure of Crimea or Assad and
claiming that the downing of MH17 was a Zionist false flag op.
Well maybe Tulsi Gabbard but she stands alone.

There are plenty of Democrats who would do all of that if they had to run against the Party with no intention of returning.

But yes, "Take the most left-wing House member, then give them paranoid schizophrenia" is the average Green Party member.