I've never had a chance to talk to a Green Party member, so I'm pretty ignorant on your guy's thoughts.

From what I can gather, Jill Stein and the main branch of the Green Party seem to be directing their statements towards criticism towards the Biden administration and candidate Harris, based on how they have handled the situation in Gaza. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this for 2 reasons:

1.) With the signaling that the Trump administration has been giving out, it seems like the Palestinian's say in Gaza would be worse than under a Harris one. Trump called Netanyahu last week to congratulate him on the Hezbollah attacks and signal his support towards Israel's actions, after Netanyahu went to visit Trump at Mar-A-Lago last month. Trump's had more contact with Netanyahu than Biden has at this point.

This is the guy that changed the US's official stance from a two-state to a 1-state solution, gave the green light on the Golan Heights annexation, and cut 235 out of 328 million dollars out of Palestinian aid while Israeli military assistance went up from $3.1 billion to 3.8 billion.

If Trump's picking a side, it's definitely not the Palestinians, and to a greater degree than the current administration. Trump seems to be signalling that he wants to give Israel carte blanche on how to police an already-tenuous apartheid situation. What's the Green Party's take on this?

2.) Bringing down a Harris administration to promote a Trump one also flies in the face of what I thought the Green Party's primary platform policy was: ecological preservation.

During his tenure, he rolled back ~125 environmental regulations, tried to push "clean coal" campaign, pushed fracking, and withdrew from the Paris Accord. If the Green Party is based on ecological causes, I'd imagine this guy should be their greatest boogeyman. Imagine Trump's views on the ten key values of the Green Party. Why does it seem like party's messaging has been focusing less on him and more on Harris?

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Mom and mom's boyfriend are coming to visit soon. I am trying to convince them not to vote for either Trump or Harris. I was thinking of making a google slides presentation outlining why I believe in voting third party. Any sort of helpful information, anything that might not have occurred to them (or me) relating to this topic, put it in the comments below and I will include it in my presentation.

I'm a lifelong Green Party member since I first registered to vote. I believe stewardship of our natural resources and environment for future generations should be among the top priorities of every level of government. I've voted for Dr. Stein in the last three presidential elections and plan to do so again. But I fail to understand what a buy back program for guns, mandatory or otherwise, has to do with the Green Party. There is no gun show loophole. Gun control laws do nothing to prevent criminals from obtaining guns illegally and only serve to disarm law abiding citizens. And gun-free zones and cities are the places with the most gun violence across the country.

I want to be aligned with my party on these subjects. Help me understand why infringing on the rights enshrined in the second ammendment of the Bill of Rights furthers the Green vision for America.

I live in a solidly blue state- the last poll I saw last week had Harris up by 8 points. There are Harris/Walz signs all over my city and the population of the pro-Trump rural areas is dwarfed by the blue cities and suburbs. The Democrat has won my state since 2008. Even Biden was ahead when he was the nominee. So there is basically no way Harris will lose and my vote basically doesn’t matter. But I don’t tell most people except a few trusted friends I’m voting Green because I don’t support genocide and to get them to 5% because we need an actual left party in this country. I don’t discuss this with Harris supporters because I know they- who are mostly rich, white limousine liberals- would lose it on me, a WOC who has actually experienced the oppression they almost fantasize about experiencing. If I lived in a state where my vote mattered I may make a different decision because I genuinely worry Trump will start a nuclear war because he has a McDonald’s fart he can’t get out. But like I said, a Harris win is basically guaranteed in my state so I don’t feel the need to compromise my morals and I want my vote to matter- I want it to send a message to Democrats that girl boss fascism is still fascism. How do others here handle these types of situations? So far I’ve just been silent but it’s getting harder and more annoying the closer we get to the election.

I cannot for a fact confirm this, because I am an online rando and not a senior Green Party figure.

But if what Jill Stein said is correct on Amy Goodman's show just now,

Noura Erakat wanted the party to drop out if Harris promised an arms embargo on Israel. Jill Stein refused this strategy.

It answered my earlier post, on whether the demand was for Harris to promise it, or for Harris to make the ceasefire happen by changing White House policy right now.

I must say - I am really surprised that the discussion centred on the former rather than the latter.

Of course politicians break their promises. Simultaneously, all the pro-Palestinian folk bring up Reagan's ability to end the destruction of Lebanon with a simple phone call. The demand should be for the White House to do it now, rather than to promise it for later.

I've noticed on several popular subreddits like genz for instance, someone starts a political discussion and then I participate wanting to genuinely debate democratic policies vs green party policies (I'm not fully decided yet whom to vote for, but definitely not Trump). The moment I start debating other democrats, first I get a bunch of rhetoric for throwing away my vote or Jill Stein is working with the Russians. If I persist, I get no further responses, but just a bunch of downvotes. This has the negative impact of my arguments being pushed down the order on reddit so nobody else sees what I'm saying. Just wondering if other folks on here have had similar issues?

For me, Greens would have to be taken over by horrible people the way that the Libertarian Party was. I hope our Party structure prevents that from happening. Let's focus on realistically, and not insane hypotheticals.

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Probably would need Presidential Executive Orders, because we all know Congress wouldn’t pass Green Party laws for it to be signed.