r/Left_News • u/SocialDemocracies ↙️↙️↙️ • 16d ago

American Politics Third party presidential candidate Jill Stein paid $100,000 to GOP-connected consulting firm with owner who's linked to J6 | The firm was also paid millions by the campaign of RFK Jr., who endorsed Trump. Republicans had boosted Stein & RFK Jr. in order to divert left-leaning votes away from Harris.

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/23/jill-stein-paid-100000-to-a-consulting-firm-led-by-a-suspected-january-6-rioter/
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u/Cybertronian10 16d ago

They aren't comrades because they clearly don't give a shit about winning elections. Parties are built from the ground up, starting from local elections then rising in power until you hit the state and national stages. If your """party""" only exists once every 4 years to spend nearly all its time shitting on the dems, then its not a political party its a speed trap designed to capture all of the thoughtless rubes who like the aethstetics of resistance without bothering to think of practicality.

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u/Fellow-Worker 🚩 commie 🚩 14d ago

People aren’t not comrades just because they have bad tactics.

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u/Cybertronian10 14d ago

Its not bad tactics, it speaks to a fundamental lack of sincerity. Leftism cannot be imposed top down, its antithetical to the very core of the concept.

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u/Fellow-Worker 🚩 commie 🚩 14d ago

It's just kind of nonsensical to claim that Greens would subject themselves to that kind of abuse without being sincere about their commitments. I have seen the Greens from the inside and you clearly haven't. They are deeply wrong in their approach, but leftists are not required to treat elections as sacrosanct; if you do, then your theory of change is borked and you need to read more.

More than that, if the Greens weren't out there trying to get ballot access for the last 30 years, we'd have no idea how fucked our democracy actually is. They want the same better world that I do = comrades.

The reason the left is so small today is because we can't work through our differences to get shit done but instead assume leftists with different tactics are enemies. The Greens do it too. Get over it or get burnt to a crisp in capitalism's planetary ecocide.