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Agreed. The Green Party sits on their ass until presidential election. They haven’t moved the needle. Best case scenario, they’ve convinced a few non-voters to participate. Worst case, they’re dishonest opportunists.
Most of the greens here on Lemmy convinced me to never consider a green canidate.
The trouble with supporting a third party -- and I say this as someone inclined to support a third party -- is that anybody who actually does it is either (a) an idiot who doesn't understand the game theory of first-past-the-post voting, or (b) an incredibly fringe nutjob. The result is that all third parties absolutely destroy all their credibility and ruin any chance of getting more mainstream.
If you're a third-party-inclined person who isn't an idiot or a nutjob, your only real option is to vote for Democrats in general, and ones who support ranked choice voting in particular (because you sure as Hell aren't gonna get it from the Republicans), and then switch to your third party of choice only after ranked-choice voting is passed.
The Democrats are going to give you ranked-choice voting so they can potentially lose your vote.... Thank god you are not an idiot.
San Francisco has ranked choice voting because there's no way in hell a Republican could win here. That's what we should be aiming for.
The Democrats give us nothing. We voters take.
Maine and Alaska use RCV now, and while Alaskan politicians are trying to ratfuck the votes (because Sarah Palin lost to a Democrat under FPTP), both states have seen people not get a Republican thanks to their vote for Third Parties on the Left, as long as they at least grudgingly mark the Dem ahead of the Rep on the RCV ballot.
Colorado's going to vote on this this November, too, which means I can actually vote Third Party without being ratfucked by that choice. Then I'll happily say 'Vote Green to hold Blue accountable, but make sure Blue shows up before Red so Red doesn't ratfuck all of us on the Left."
If you wonder about the constant use of ratfucking in my post, have a read and see what it means...
Yes. That's because the Democratic Party isn't some monolithic machiavellian organization.