r/JewsOfConscience Non-Jewish Ally Sep 05 '24

News Jill Stein responds to AOC

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u/isawasin Non-Jewish Ally Sep 05 '24

Recently, AOC followed up her objectively dishonest appearance at the DNC with an ig love where she answered questions/platformed democratic talking points. During that stream, she directed pointed criticism at Jill Stein and portrayed the green party as a whole as self-serving opportunists.

Since then, that narrative has been taken up as a major talking point across liberal and pro-capitalist left circles on social media, including on this site. This was Jill's response.

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u/Taarguss Reconstructionist Sep 05 '24

Well unfortunately, they are self serving opportunists. AOC’s doing a bad job here but the Green Party in America is less than useless right now. They make no effort to build power and only pop up during the general election. They don’t do anything. Their strategy is bad. They want that 5% of the vote so they can be on national ballots, but do virtually nothing on a local or state level. it’s a top down approach that will never work.

If you’re not gonna vote for Harris, you may as well just not vote for president and just focus on down ballot stuff. There’s truly no good to be done by throwing a vote to Jill Stein.

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u/stormelc Sep 05 '24

I don’t want to pop your bubble, but republicans and democrats can’t get shit done either. Seems strange to discredit the Geen Party for something the 2 main parties are guilty of themselves.

Why perpetuate the broken 2 party system?

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u/Zealousideal-Skin655 Sep 05 '24

Millions of people have benefited from the work Democrats on the environment, healthcare, education, etc. to ignore this facts is childish and pathetic.

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u/stormelc Sep 05 '24

Lol WHAT work? My inhaler still costs me like $300 if I didn't have insurance, when I bought the same medicine for < $10 overseas.

WHAT meaningful change has been brought by the democrats?