The Green Party allows socialist candidates to run in the primaries, as it did with @fatsocialist. She won the primary in Alaska (where a rebellion against Green Party national headquarters forced the state party out) and won delegates in the primary throughout the country. The ICFI/@SEP_Australia is a capitalist-owned corporate party as shown by many of your own arguments. The entire election is a bourgeois election, but socialists participate in bourgeois elections in order to raise the awareness of the workers about the anti-democratic processes that prevent their issues from being debated.

When there are many anti-democratic processes and only one democratic process, the U.S. Constitution, then the democratic process slows down, fails, and halts. Opposition to participation in bourgeois elections is a syndicalist position, but as Lenin explained, we need to meet the workers at their level of spontaneous consciousness and raise that to the level of socialist consciousness. The spontaneous consciousness of the workers at the current state still proves the necessity of breaking them from the Democratic Party.

Bourgeois ideology can still control that situation by lining up the rebellion against the Democrats with Peter Daou, the chief executive of Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016. Clinton and other Democrats under @peterdaou notoriously attacked the Greens to take them off the ballot, so to appoint a Clinton employee to lead the Greens naturally puts the Green Party executives at odds with the majority of their party. Only Marxism can explain this process as the outcome of the class struggle, with Clinton representing capitalists’ interests within the @GreenPartyUS and @fatsocialist representing the workers’ interests.