The Green Party missed the boat?
I’m currently reading Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men which is long overdue in a lot of ways (hey, I was waiting to check it out at the library — honest!) but I finally got around to picking it up.
And while reading it I couldn’t help but see the Anti-Corporate left that pre-9-11 and post 9-11, which has been vastly ignored by the media for a while now.
I started thinking, “Who will have to step forward from the Dems to counter this corporate oversaturation in government?” and yet I’m back at the realization that both of the major parties are covered by dead presidents and promises of more dead presidents…
I looked back a tthe Green Party, which I voted for in 2000, and I turned up my nose to it, despite agreeing on their principles. Why? Why would I do this?
The answer is Ralph Nader. Not because I don’t like Ralph, not because I don’t think he is the voice of the Party right now… It’s because Nader might be able to make a stink on things but his ego is keeping him from running for office that is below the president, getting into government and helping Greens in general by being a stepping stone.
How is a true 3rd Party going to finally come to ralization if the 3rd parties aim so high and don’t build up nationally? How can they build up nationally if the only prominant office they are running their top party member for is President?
And after Ralph retires from politics - who’s next? There’s no one in the Party that truly stands out right now, and at times the party is so left that it alienates the common voter.
Is the Green party missing the boat by not getting someone into a lower level national office, yet continually offering a presidential candidate? Is the Green Party missing the boat on national causes for personal crusades?
Posted by John F at June 29, 2003 05:42 PM
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please check out Dennis Kucinich, the only candidate who is courageous enough to call for a peace dept (and the dismantling of the perpetual war machine with increasingly higher profits); a single payer health care system which maintains freedom of individual choice (thereby taking a giant step forward in getting money - or outrageous profit- out of what now passes as health care, more appropriately labeled sickness care); taking down the WTO and NAFTA together with agribusiness and re-establishing the small farmer supported by local, not global, markets - which is a giant step forward in decreasing energy and pesticide use while helping to remove the massive threat posed by biotech AND most importantly helping reinvigorate local and rural economies, not to mention our health and a cleaner environment. for more info on how big money influences policy read Death in the Air by Len Horowitcz and Alternatives to Economic Globalization which is a report of the International forum on Globalization. Also note that Kucinich is the only candidate who has endorsed POCLAD'S book Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy. And he is is the least subsidized candidate, because big money by and large do not stand to benefit from his proposals.
Statement's like that make me more alienated by the left every day.
THere are many more DOMESTIC issues, Geraldine, than national issues. I don't care about a Peace department, I care about that abomination called the Homeland Security Department which I think it should be dismantled, with the DEFENSE Department getting back to basics (Toe, Bigga -- Tony Dungy should run for president :) ). I don't care as much about the farms as much as my tax dollars and how they are being wasted to further corporate interests in Iraq, and how my tax dollars aren't breaking the corporate stranglehold on monopolies in America.
I care about education, I care about Health Care, I care about the state budget crisis'... The issues that are really facing the US.
