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timun · 09-13-2022, 02:50 PM

I don't think they have much of a reason to exist anymore either. When they were a one-issue party (a very broad issue, to be fair) and no other big party was addressing environmental issues and had any meaningful policy, sure, there was plenty of reason for them to bang the environmentalist drum. But now every big party (...save arguably the CPC...) has an environmental policy. You could still argue they don't go far enough, but that's semantics at this point.

I voted for the Marijuana Party in the past because I thought it was absurd that it was treated as a narcotic and—to the surprise of no one, really—all the hullabaloo about the 'dangers' of marijuana have proverbially gone up in smoke after legalization. Now that it is legal the Marijuana Party is essentially defunct and serves no purpose. I'm sure there are advocates who still don't like how legalization was handled and there are quibbles with the various provincial policies and implementations on the retail level, but 99.9997% of people who wanted it legalized are fairly satisfied with the outcome.

Now that the NDP/Liberals/Bloc have taken up the environmentalist mantle to one degree or another, what's left for the Greens to quibble about? Nothing much, hence they're adrift and eating their own, alienating their own MPs as they argue about a policy position on Israel, worrying about "misgendering incidents" and other such chicanery that 99.9997% of the rest of us couldn't care less about and think represents the very worst of the "performative wokeness" that people in this thread were just talking about.

09-13-2022, 02:50 PM	#2089
timun First Line Centre Join Date: May 2012 Exp:	I don't think they have much of a reason to exist anymore either. When they were a one-issue party (a very broad issue, to be fair) and no other big party was addressing environmental issues and had any meaningful policy, sure, there was plenty of reason for them to bang the environmentalist drum. But now every big party (...save arguably the CPC...) has an environmental policy. You could still argue they don't go far enough, but that's semantics at this point. I voted for the Marijuana Party in the past because I thought it was absurd that it was treated as a narcotic and—to the surprise of no one, really—all the hullabaloo about the 'dangers' of marijuana have proverbially gone up in smoke after legalization. Now that it is legal the Marijuana Party is essentially defunct and serves no purpose. I'm sure there are advocates who still don't like how legalization was handled and there are quibbles with the various provincial policies and implementations on the retail level, but 99.9997% of people who wanted it legalized are fairly satisfied with the outcome. Now that the NDP/Liberals/Bloc have taken up the environmentalist mantle to one degree or another, what's left for the Greens to quibble about? Nothing much, hence they're adrift and eating their own, alienating their own MPs as they argue about a policy position on Israel, worrying about "misgendering incidents" and other such chicanery that 99.9997% of the rest of us couldn't care less about and think represents the very worst of the "performative wokeness" that people in this thread were just talking about.