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In reply to the discussion: Just a reminder- today is yet another consequence of not getting out the vote in 2016 for Hillary [View all]W_HAMILTON
(10,401 posts)You can't same the same about the Green Party and Democrats. The only difference between the two is how far they are willing to go in terms of achieving those ideals, with the Green Party wanting to go so far that their ideas become unfeasible politically.
I went through and actually compared their platform with the Democrats back then and the only difference was that the Green Party was against nuclear energy and the Democratic Party was for it -- and even that could be considered more of a difference in extreme rather than ideology.
Compare that to Libertarians vs. Republicans, both of which believe in some completely different things, most notably, the right to have an abortion (even though that has become somewhat of a murky area recently, as Libertarians are a small party and thus prone to having failed Republicans infiltrate them and re-direct their ideals and policies). But this wasn't the case in 2016, when Libertarians were in favor of legalizing abortion.