2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAre there any Green Party members on DU
who plan to support Hillary Clinton, or are considering voting for Hillary Clinton?
Since this seems to be the topic du jour today, I thought I'd ask.
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I am a Green Party member who is considering voting for Hillary Clinton | |
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I am a Green Party member who is supporting Hillary Clinton | |
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I am a Green Party member who will support the candidate who shares my values which may or may not be Hillary Clinton | |
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GreenPartyVoter
(73,189 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and explain your intents. No admirer of what today's Green Party is, but:
GreenPartyVoter
(73,189 posts)does being honest about my intentions.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and this is the first time I've run into Green Party Derangement Syndrome. One would think being Democratic was a religion and the greenies mistaken for apostates.
Whatever.
GreenPartyVoter
(73,189 posts)dredge things up at times. Not that it was ever intended to be flaimbait. I was just trying to be open about who I am, so that people wouldn't think I was skulking around under false pretenses.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 9, 2016, 12:48 PM - Edit history (1)
You probably get some respect for your honesty.
But some people seem to think Greens "out there" are all just Democrats in a snit. Or something.
Now, me, I'm more interested in knowing how many Democrats have gone to the Libertarian Party. Many Dems are conservatives who never vote for our presidential candidate after all, no "loss" there, it's who they are, but even more are conservative economically and liberal socially, making them ripe for wooing by Johnson.
Btw, I saw your garden in the making in your journal. Bet it's lovely about now. I grew a lot of flowering shrubs and perennials for years, but with climate change and petal-crisping summer heat (and occasionally drought) here in Georgia, I now back off all but a few real toughies in summer and just enjoy the green. When the trees around the house finally grow large enough, I'll go to ferns, mosses and woodland ephemerals under them.
PatSeg
(49,847 posts)and I've never seen anything like this before. I find it very suspicious and disruptive.
Some people seem to think that there is a purity test to be a Democrat. I think that would apply more to republicans.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)It's not just my own first-timer's reaction.
My own anxiety over what's at stake is directed firmly to the right.
PatSeg
(49,847 posts)noticed the unusual reaction to the Green Party and Stein in this election. Some of the rhetoric has been so abusive from the Green haters, that it suggests an agenda, but I cannot figure out exactly what it is. Many of us never paid attention to this 1-2% candidate until some agitators made it some kind of mission.
A handful of the loudest and most irate people seem to comment primarily on Green party threads.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)prominence so they could be stoned better, I could see it. Is this happening outside DU?
My first assumption was that the Greens were surrogates for a proxy war after the one here was forcibly suspended with the end of the primary. Psychologists say hostility and aggression become addictive.
PatSeg
(49,847 posts)as you said, a proxy war after the end of the primary. Emotions tend to stay elevated for a while after a primary, but some of the behavior is very odd, such as attacking DUers for things they have not done or said and often quite viciously. Basically picking a fight for the sake of fighting. In that sense it could be an addiction to hostility and aggression I suppose.
They have succeeded in giving too much prominence to a party and a candidate who do not warrant this kind of attention, but could actually benefit from it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Since it is a tiny group, I just ignore them.
PatSeg
(49,847 posts)louder and more profane.
They seem to have settled down some though. Knock on wood!
Rex
(65,616 posts)Really hard to say with King Word Salad. Been around a long time like you and I know you've noticed there a fringe groups for just about everything. Diversity is better then exclusiveness, even the ones that get on my nerves sometimes say something I totally agree with. Given enough years, we all are bound to agree on something.
Hell I remember arguing once why at least a few authoritarians were necessary to have around; otherwise our drum circles would overtake the cities!
PatSeg
(49,847 posts)on that!
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)While not a member of the green party myself we have discussed them in a positive manner in the past. They consistently support a number of items that perfectly align with my ideology.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)
I think we are all in this together.
No Trump, no way!
LP2K12
(885 posts)However, I've been open in the past about how I lean/identify Libertarian. That being said I vote in the best interest of everyone, not just me. As such I voted for Obama twice. I voted for Bernie in the primaries, and I will vote for Hillary to keep Trump out of office. Sure, I don't align/agree with her on everything, but the alternative would be devastating.
Thank you!!!
Trump is simply not an option.
Buckeye_Democrat
(15,126 posts)... especially with Jill Stein as their candidate.
I took an online "issues" test for fun, and Stein supposedly matched me the most. Sanders was second and Clinton was third.
The test didn't ask questions about vaccinations and other stuff that would've surely separated me from Stein immensely!
Also, despite me LOVING Elizabeth Warren, there's no way that I would vote for even her on another party's ticket if I thought it could mean a Trump win.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)Thank you!