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Third parties are not bothering to earn your votes either. They put in zero work except for presidential elections.
Thats the only time YOU start paying attention to 3rd parties, by parroting what youve heard from the media, who has a vested interest in keeping the oligarchy in power
Ok, show me all the Green party candidates running for local and state elected positions.
Wanting someone else to do the work for you? It's your job to pay attention not mine or anyone elses
Oh I'm pretty confident of what the answer is. I just want you to look for yourself.
I looked:
You haven't actually looked at the list of the 140 positions they're counting to get that already embarrassing number, have you? They don't even have a single state representative.
My state had more people running under a niche local party than the Greens, and we're a solid blue state infested with DINOs just begging to be challenged from the left. That's not a party trying to break the duopoly and challenge the neoliberal establishment. They're a joke.
Leslie Knope getting her start.
Thanks for linking the proof
Flags of convenience for local people elected to powerless neighborhood boards do not indicate the party itself actually did anything. It's actually not even that. They claim any win by a member of the Green party who's not a member of another party is a Green party win. So the criteria is more about the candidate themselves giving money to the Green party than any effort in the other direction. And no, winning neighborhood board seats is not the level of foundation needed to launch a presidential run.
Like I said, my state is a prime target for contesting elections from the left, but they do less than nobody parties organized around niche local issues. We've got low turnout, plenty of uninspiring neoliberal Democrats that are to the right of many voters (or even outright conservatives), and no real Republican party to worry about spoiling for. I've never even received so much as a flier from them. I had no idea they even fielded any candidates until well after the fact. This is possibly the best possible environment for Greens to come in and challenge the Democrats and it's hard to even call their level of effort an afterthought. They fielded candidates in two whole races in the entire state.