You’d think midterms would be a great time to get your name out there and run high profile candidates to win House districts led by charlatans…

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    188·
    5 months ago

    That’s because they’re not in it to actually win. A number of them are in it to act as spoiler specifically, why else do you think Jill Stein still around?

    • DMBFFF@lemmy.world
      15·
      5 months ago

      partially to keep the Democrats from straying too much from environmental concerns.

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldOP
        61·
        5 months ago

        She should focus solely on the environment and climate change then instead of “WiFi causes cancer” and promoting vaccine hesitancy. She should also develop a facts based viewpoint on nuclear energy instead of fear mongering.

        We have modern reaction designs that can consume existing nuclear waste. We literally have more nuclear waste around than we would if we were doing more nuclear projects.

        • DMBFFF@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          IIUC, renewables are becoming less costly compared to nukes than nukes.

          Who’s stopping people from challenging Stein?

          If only 0.1% were US Green Party members, that’s still 1/3rd a million.

          • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldOP
            1·
            5 months ago

            Nuclear reactors are quite expensive, but they provide some benefits we can’t get from other renewables. They can be used to provide a consistent base load of power to the grid, and if we pick a good base load, we’ll minimize time periods where we have extra or insufficient energy from solar and wind. And like I said, we can use nuclear reactors to burn nuclear waste. Being able to destroy waste is a big boon.

            It’s not on the general population to replace Stein. It’s on the Green Party to appeal to the general population. In that regard it may actually be best that they don’t field a presidential candidate. Hear me out. Right now you have just a small group of people who are voting on who should be the Green nominee. That person is going to be reflective of the small group, but will lack general appeal. It’ll be someone who the Greens want, but not someone who the people in general want.

            Democrats and Republicans are able to do this because they’re large enough that their nominee has to be approved of by a substantial part of the population. That’s something third parties don’t have, and their candidates will be alienating. Libertarians are a good example where the small group wants to get rid of drivers licenses for instance, but the general population is absolutely against it.

            Instead of asking about challenging Stein, we should be asking if any candidate chosen by the current Green party would actually be desired by the general population. And I don’t think that is currently possible with how small and niche the party is. This is why they need to focus on local and state and congressional races.