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  • It looks to me that the Green Party has consistently failed to understand how to gain power in the US electoral system.

    There are several issues. One is the repeated nominations of woefully underqualified candidates for president. Another is the focus on presidential races rather than congressional, state legislative and municipal elections.

    And then there’s the history of Russian funding of the Green Party, using them as spoilers to help fascists win office.

    If you’re serious about gaining political power, you need to get qualified candidates to run in local elections. Imagine if the Green Party held 15 seats in the house right now. They would be the power brokers. Nothing could get done by the plurality party without them.

    A small minority can get big things done. The temperance movement was a minority movement with a single issue. They were willing to throw their support behind anyone who would support a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol. Because they prevented any major party from having a majority, they were able to get their agenda through by trading their support for just about anything in exchange for support for the 18th Amendment. The Green Party could do something similar.