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Jill Stein launches 2024 bid as Green Party candidate
(thehill.com)
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How tragic is it that there isn't even enough enthusiasm to maintain a genuine, non-astroturfed or political spoiler based environment first party and platform?
As pissed off as some are, anyone myself included not getting arrested trying to protest/sabotage oil lines aren't taking the destruction of our only shared habitat we all rely on literally from one breath to the next seriously enough.
I know I know, we don't need to breathe, we don't need crops or fresh water, we just need more jerbs and a stronger economy to drop dead in. Lol, humans, I'd say nothing of value will be lost, but we aren't just killing ourselves. And as projections continue to worsen, and our circumstances grow more dire, all the other species that had nothing to do with what we did will barely enter our collective minds as we languish in self-pity, as if the once bountiful Earth we raped, pillaged, and burned somehow betrayed us instead of the other way around.
Part of the problem is the First Past The Post system. Any third party will just bleed votes away from the closest major party. In the case of a party dedicated to protecting the environment, this means votes taken from the Democrats. If the third party grows too powerful, they will split too many votes with the Democrats and Republicans will take control. And once that happens, the environment will be trashed. (Well, trashed even more than it already has been.)
If we switched to Ranked Choice Voting or Approval Voting, you could vote for a third party and still pick a major party candidate as your fallback position. So you could theoretically vote for Jill Stein (ignoring all the other problems with her) and vote for Biden as your second pick (or third or fourth). When Stein failed to get enough votes, your vote won't be wasted, but would revert to a different choice.
why the downvotes?. SMH