The Green Party candidates offered real alternatives for progressive voters

[Kaleva]

but they got smoked.

I've read a number of comments here about how many voters didn't bother going to the polls this past election because there wasn't anyone worthwhile to vote for. Just Republican and a so-called Republican-Lite candidates to choose from.

Here in Michigan, I had a chance to vote for the Green candidates for governor, lt. governor, secretary of state, attorney general, US senator, US representative, University of Michigan Board of Regents, MSU Board of Trustees, Wayne State University Board of Governors and state board of education. But I didn't. I voted straight Dem.

However, this does show to those who complain there were no candidates to vote for who share the their values that there indeed were, in many cases, such candidates.

I think one could argue that the positions on issues and values of what many here say are bedrock, liberal Democrat principles are pretty much the same as a Green's.

So why don't more progressives who say they are disaffected by the centrist, corporatist, same old same old Dem candidates offered to them instead vote Green rather then stay at home and not vote at all?

[NYC_SKP]

1. Maybe we needed a "Green Underground" more than a Discussionist discussionist board.....

I don't know. I love this site, not too crazy about some of our "Democrats".

[Kaleva]

2. Or a Green Underground along with DI

I dunno. For all the talk about how many disaffected progressive voters there are out there, one would think Greens would do more then poll single digits in state wide and national elections.

[Ykcutnek]

3. Anyone who doesn't vote surrenders the right to identify as a "progressive"

There's nothing more regressive than not voting.

Fuck 'em.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. As a Democrat, I have voted Green several times and expect to do so again.