Green Party candidate Cornel West currently owes about half a million dollars between unpaid taxes and unpaid child support, according to tax records.

ABCnews

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 years ago

    Here’s a source for you. Note that People’s World is a socialist new organization.

    From the article, “The GOP has a long history of using the Green Party as a tool to siphon votes that might go to Democrats and of playing a spoiler role in our two-party, winner-take-all electoral system. And the Green Party leadership has opportunistically embraced the support, playing the role of what some describe as ‘useful idiots.’ […] In 2016, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein garnered 30,000 votes in Wisconsin; Trump won the state by 23,000 votes.”

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      There’s an entirely other way of reading that data, which is to say that Hillary could have picked up 30,000 more votes in Wisconsin if she had been a better candidate and run a better campaign.

    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      this does not prove that i would have voted for hilary clinton in 2016. because i wouldn’t have.

      • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 years ago

        I didn’t either–I voted Green–but the state I lived in at the time went solidly for Clinton. I didn’t like her then, I don’t like her now, but if I’d lived in a state where it would have been even remotely close, I would have voted for her rather than Trump.

        I disagree with Clinton’s politics. I disagree with Trump’s existence.

        • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          I didn’t either–I voted Green–but the state I lived in at the time went solidly for Clinton.

          i voted for jill stein, too, and my state went to trump. i didn’t want him to win. i also didn’t want clinton to win. that’s why i didn’t vote for either of them.

          jill stein wasn’t a spoiler: she was the candidate i wanted to win.