On 11/8/20 1:37 PM, Ryan via groups.io wrote:
Why don’t Greens and other modern socialist parties start by running down
ballot candidates that can actually do some good in local politics instead of
putting all their effort into repeated failed attempts at the highest office in
the land. That’s proved itself to be a dead end strategy. Do what DSA is doing
but in a new party.
Here's what Scott McLarty said about that on FB:
I posted the following on Green Party FB pages (I'm former media
director of the party):
Surviving Point Two Percent
Green presidential nominee Howie Hawkins got .2% on Election Day. This
was predictable. I predicted it in an article published two weeks ago.
The Green Party needs to stop making the Green presidential nominee's
numbers on Election Day the main measure of the party's progress.
There are some years in which the enthusiasm for defeating the
Republican nominee is so strong that voters who might otherwise vote
Green instead feel compelled to hold their noses and vote Democrat.
That's what happened in 2004, when both David Cobb (Green nominee) and
Ralph Nader (Independent and a nationally famous public figure) received
under half of one percent. It happened in 2008 when Barack Obama was so
popular.
That was the dynamic in the 2020 election. "Dump Trump" meant a vote for
Biden. (And who can argue with Dump Trump?)
The race for the White House is a multi-billion-dollar spectacle. It's
necessary for the Green Party to run presidential campaigns for a list
of reasons I don't need to rehearse here. But the Green Party should
never invest its future in a presidential campaign.
It shouldn't matter if the presidential candidate gets a small fraction
of one percent if the Green Party can rack up important wins in
down-ticket races, like mayoral candidate Emmanuel Estrada's victory in
Baldwin Park, California on Tuesday.
The party's top priority should be to get at least a half dozen Greens
seated in state legislatures. In my opinion, too many of our best Green
candidates mount unwinnable campaigns for Congress when they should
really run for statehouse, county commission, and municipal council seats.
The party needs to build up a real base of power -- as opposed to
imaginary power that comes with participating in a multi-billion-dollar
spectacle -- and that means winning lots of seats at state & local
levels. The Green Party will only have a future when we achieve that.
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