I see your point. It wasn’t my intention to insult the Green Party. I like the Green Party and in an ideal world, I’d prefer if there was a viable Green Party candidate that could run right now against Sanders without helping to usher in yet another Republican administration or corporatist Democrat like Clinton.
That said, it’s Hedges that’s saying Sanders should run as an Independent and that’s why I’m addressing the issue in that manner. My point about Nader was that most Americans think he ran as an Independent. They really don’t give a shit what party it was called. That’s our reality. All they care about is that they think Nader helped to spoil the election and Sanders will do the same thing if he runs as an Independent right now.
If we had to sit and explain to people all the nuances of Nader’s campaign on top of convincing them that Sanders wouldn’t be a potential spoiler, we’d be wasting valuable time and losing mass amounts of potential voters in the process. There’d be zero hope for Sanders. There’d be no point.
I think it’s highly debatable that Nader spoiled the race, but that’s beside the point. The point is if Sanders ran as an Independent or Green Party candidate, he might as well had not run at all. There’d be very little support and I know for a fact there’d be critical, powerful grassroots organizations who wouldn’t have wasted their time on a plan guaranteed to fail. Sanders and Hedges would be sitting in a bubble together bitching about all the dire problems within the United States instead of performing lasting progressive actions with the power and influence of the executive branch emboldened by a huge grassroots movement.
I’m already seeing where Hedges’ bullshit is already causing internal nitpicking and distractions that are only going to help Hillary and/or Republicans win against Sanders. I’ve already given Hedges too much of my time already on this and the more I think about Hedges, the less I’m able to contain my anger with him. I’ve got real work to do. Hedges can spin his wheels within his defeatist, pipe dream bubble in the meantime.
I’m not going to wait on that pipe dream “revolution” that Chris Hedges called for some time ago. Yah know… the one that makes the rich “panic” overnight with bullshit platitudes and zero real-world strategy? Get real, Hedges, you’re in a bubble.