Your reaction to yet more proof that jill stein is not a serious 3rd party candidate is to double down on your belief that she is a serious candidate but also the victim of a massive conspiracy. That’s the thought process of a victim of disinformation.
The sad reality is that 3rd party candidates are not viable in our 1st-past-the-post voting system.
If you seriously wanted more than 2 viable parties you’d be advocating for electoral reform, not pretending that russian funded republicans like jill stein are somehow different from the other russian funded republican on the ballot.
I think he was half right. Our for-profit capitalist media has done Bernie Sanders dirty over the last 20 years so I don’t trust them to be fair and objective towards any 3rd party environmentalist groups that would potentially put sustainability before profits. Dont get me wrong, I think Jill Stein is a Russian sponsored spoiler candidate, but I think the media would shit on her even if her campign was sincere.
If we had a party that was legitimately dedicated to environmental justice AND we had a political system that allowed minority parties to participate, then yeah, that would be a real threat and the media would be martialled against it.
But I just don’t see how the media reaction to third parties matters. Non-ranked voting, non-proportional voting and the electoral college structurally forbid minor parties from being anything but a spoiler.
Your reaction to yet more proof that jill stein is not a serious 3rd party candidate is to double down on your belief that she is a serious candidate but also the victim of a massive conspiracy. That’s the thought process of a victim of disinformation.
The sad reality is that 3rd party candidates are not viable in our 1st-past-the-post voting system.
If you seriously wanted more than 2 viable parties you’d be advocating for electoral reform, not pretending that russian funded republicans like jill stein are somehow different from the other russian funded republican on the ballot.
I think he was half right. Our for-profit capitalist media has done Bernie Sanders dirty over the last 20 years so I don’t trust them to be fair and objective towards any 3rd party environmentalist groups that would potentially put sustainability before profits. Dont get me wrong, I think Jill Stein is a Russian sponsored spoiler candidate, but I think the media would shit on her even if her campign was sincere.
If we had a party that was legitimately dedicated to environmental justice AND we had a political system that allowed minority parties to participate, then yeah, that would be a real threat and the media would be martialled against it.
But I just don’t see how the media reaction to third parties matters. Non-ranked voting, non-proportional voting and the electoral college structurally forbid minor parties from being anything but a spoiler.