I am delighted to learn that the Green Party is going to run a candidate for president in this year’s election (“Green Party co-founder rallies local supporters,” Feb. 17).
I’m sure that Donald Trump is equally delighted, because in the 2016 presidential election the Green Party’s presidential candidate, Jill Stein, garnered more than enough votes in the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania to throw the Electoral College vote to Trump.
Since there is no chance on God’s green Earth that Howie Hawkins will win the presidency, the net result of his running is likely to be the re-election of a mean-spirited, divisive and dishonest president whose actions include crippling everything from the rule of law to our limited environmental protections, and whose goals seem to include undermining everything from essential international alliances to the American experiment in democracy.
Congratulations to Hawkins and those who support the Green Party’s running a candidate for president. Maybe in your campaign ads and ground campaign you can advise voters about what they should tell their grandchildren about why we failed to defeat America’s first would-be dictator — and why, in the process, we empowered and emboldened a president who thinks global warming is a hoax and science is fake news.
Stephen Arons
North Hatfield