While the Green Party nominates a presidential candidate every four years as a publicity stunt, other politicians—Democrats and Republicans alike—have been steadily pursuing a green agenda in California. California cities are better off for it.

As unnerving as it must be to witness the presidential campaign of the Green Party from elsewhere in the country, it's downright bizarre to watch it from here in California. On the one hand, many, if not most, California voters share Green values. On the other hand, they've already voted for those values. They've just voted for a different party.
Columnist Dan Savage recently published a series of scathing critiques (here, here) of the Green Party. They’re fun to read both for the acidity of Savage's sarcasm and for the depth of his indignation. He essentially says that the Green Party’s delusions of grandeur are almost as vast as those of Donald Trump. According to a blog post by party Chair Andrea Merida Cuellar, the Greens have won plenty of elections nationwide—president being only the most lofty—and the Greens hold exactly 116 of them.
As I contemplate the Greens' latest adventure, and the havoc that protest votes could wreak on our world this year, I consider that the Green Party isn't merely small-time. It's behind the times.

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