Kindness and human decency weigh a tremendous amount with me, and more and more as I get older. But in politicians, and especially those who aspire to lead the country, with all the enormous complications and problems that involves, I feel intelligence (or at least the lack of stupidity) are a necessity.
7 hours ago
She could do a lot of good in the future.
My serious (but not far) lefty mates think well of her. I don't know much about her, but her participation in this absolute clownshow so far makes me wonder about her judgement. However, I agree that lefties do deserve effective political representation, and if she turns out to be capable of it, good.
Corbyn's judgement, on the other hand, is and has always been execrable. And most serious lefties of my acquaintance say he is also not very bright.
Zack Polanski's past as a hypnotherapist, and his (disputed) claims that he could hypnotise women to have bigger breasts, are rather hard to forget when considering how serious he is capable of being.
That aside, however, our politics are in such a mess at the moment, and most of the alternatives so frightful, that a vote for the Greens could make sense under some circumstances.
1 day ago
On Your Party, and lj's question, IMO the whole phenomenon demonstrates yet again the factionalism of the far/mid left, and its incredibly self-defeating tendency which seems to (in fact if not in theory) value purity and virtue as against electoral success and the ability to actually achieve anything. There's no question that there are "stubborn attitudes to anything on the left", although admittedly not in the same league as in the US, but the far/mid left makes it awfully easy for them. The Monty Python sketch has never been far from mind during these developments.
Kindness and human decency weigh a tremendous amount with me, and more and more as I get older. But in politicians, and especially those who aspire to lead the country, with all the enormous complications and problems that involves, I feel intelligence (or at least the lack of stupidity) are a necessity.
She could do a lot of good in the future.
My serious (but not far) lefty mates think well of her. I don't know much about her, but her participation in this absolute clownshow so far makes me wonder about her judgement. However, I agree that lefties do deserve effective political representation, and if she turns out to be capable of it, good.
Corbyn's judgement, on the other hand, is and has always been execrable. And most serious lefties of my acquaintance say he is also not very bright.
Zack Polanski's past as a hypnotherapist, and his (disputed) claims that he could hypnotise women to have bigger breasts, are rather hard to forget when considering how serious he is capable of being.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/zack-polanski-deputy-green-party-hypnotherapy-womens-breasts-5HjcmXc_2/
That aside, however, our politics are in such a mess at the moment, and most of the alternatives so frightful, that a vote for the Greens could make sense under some circumstances.
On Your Party, and lj's question, IMO the whole phenomenon demonstrates yet again the factionalism of the far/mid left, and its incredibly self-defeating tendency which seems to (in fact if not in theory) value purity and virtue as against electoral success and the ability to actually achieve anything. There's no question that there are "stubborn attitudes to anything on the left", although admittedly not in the same league as in the US, but the far/mid left makes it awfully easy for them. The Monty Python sketch has never been far from mind during these developments.