Remember the people who were saying we should be nice to Jill Stein?

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236. Over the years I have been involved with many far left groups.

Generally speaking I found the leadership in all of them to be mainly ego driven. If you can't be a big fish in a large pond you just find a smaller pond. Jill stein is a classic. Wealthy (by my standards) and arrogant. Typical upper class vanity. As far as the Green Party goes I have no problems with the members and even have a friend running for local office as a Green. We also have one city council person who is a Green. We had two but one went to prison for taking bribes. We had a D get caught, too. Corruption doesn't care about affiliation. The real problem with trying to build a party from the local level is that local offices are not really involved with policy, but the more mundane tasks of trying to match revenue and expense. There is nothing exciting about streets and sewers. Education policy is completely shaped at the national and state level. Even our roads, sewers, and light rail rely on federal and state money.It is impossible to make any major changes on the local level. This is why third parties are doomed under the electoral system. I'm sure if the Greens had control of the city council nothing would change. As federal power has increased in order to implement significant change you have to go to Washington. This has been an ongoing trend since the flood of 1927 and I don't see any hope for increased local control.