Not easy being Green?
I have been thinking recently about the upcoming election. I know that lots and lots of people feel torn about who they are going to vote for, and at the current time, that is pretty understandable. Wars, taxes, security, environmental concerns, gay rights... there are so many issues in the spotlight right now that it seems impossible for one person to do a good job at addressing all of them. I have been thinking of an alternative.
This might sound crazy, but I may vote green party this year (my hair gets me in trouble again). It is not that I want Nader to be president (in fact, I wouldn't want that at all). All I want is for there to be a third nationally funded political party in future elections. The fact is that if a party ever gets 5% of the raw vote, then their party's campaign will get federal fundinng the next time around. Federal funding would allow a party to be a viable option in a national election. I am so tired of having only two options when it comes to politics. I think that a new political party would force the two existing (and dated) political parties to re-adjust some of their stances on issues. In many cases, there are 2 sides to a situation, Democrat or Republican. A third opinion would not only bring new aspects of old issues to the light, but they may also address things that are currently glossed over in politics.
I have not fully decided yet, but I am leaning in the direction of voting green. Last election they missed their 5 percent cutoff by literally a few thousand votes. They were SO close. All it would take is a few more votes to bring a third player to the stage in a whole new way. It is something to think about anyway.
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I say if you're goin for a kook 3rd party, Libertarian is the way to go. I actually agree with some of their points. http://www.lp.org/issues/
The green party isn't running Nader this time I think because they are scared of a 2000 repeat. In fact, they said that they wern't going to heavily campaign in tough battle ground states where they might affect the outcome of the election. Just doesn't sound like a real serious party to me.
sounds like a smart party to me. But are you sure about those facts? I heard he was running again.
I agree with a lot of what you have to say, Collin, I just have not been swayed by any of the finge parties enough to support them with my vote. I am a little sick of bipartisan politics, but the green party?!
I've always kind of liked libertarian politics. . . Ralph Nader is kind of a goof. I'm writing in a vote for MyNym. His State of the Union will leave the average American scratching his head, it should be fun!
Thanks but no thanks.
"....why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise."
--Ode for Music by Thomas Gray
Green Party Platform:
"[Their National health plan] would cover all standard medical procedures, treatment, diagnosis, etc. as well as drug treatment, dental care, medication, chronic and terminal illness, and abortion."
http://www.gp.org/platform/2000/index.html
"We affirm the right to openly embrace SEXUAL ORIENTATION in the intimate choice of who we love.
4. We support the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people in housing, jobs, civil marriage and benefits, child custody – and in all areas of life, the right to be treated equally with all other people."
(Ib.)
"We support affirmative action to remedy discrimination, to protect constitutional rights and to provide equal opportunity under the law." (Ib.)
Etc.... "We love mommy Earth and everything of the Yin. We must protect her from humans." The Malthusian solution is to kill more humans by abortion, euthanasia, etc. Greens, "We hate everything of the Yang like a father God. So we blame crime on guns, injustice on wealth and generally just blame anything that men do to provide for and protect their family/nation. Then we do whatever we can to eliminate the Yang/masculine in general." If you want to touch a nerve among such, criticize effeminacy. If you want to get along with them, uplift mommy Earth, bring down the big meanie Father God and emphasize things like nuture, tolerance and love. Note that the term descriptive of fatherlessness "bastard" is typically used an insult associated with crime, vice or perversion with reason.
There are other minority parties to vote for without supporting abortion, sexual perversion, idolatry, racism, other patterns also typical to Nazism, etc.
Maybe you didn't read what I said Mynym... I don't want Nader elected, just a 3'rd point of view.
also, There are other parties, but the greens are the only ones with a realistic shot at federal funding.
"Maybe you didn't read what I said Mynym... I don't want Nader elected, just a 3'rd point of view."
Your writing illustrates some passivity. Maybe you should think about why this is so, perhaps, perchance...possibly?
I read what you said and it is wrong in many ways. Ah, I just said something is wrong! Danger, run for your lives! ;-) (Drummer, you can probably stop reading here because the rest gets a little lengthy and complicated.)
Are the Republicans really more Christian in being closer to the principles of Jews and Christians? Yes. Are they corrupt? Yes. Are they increasingly corrupt? Probably, although there has always been a high level of corruption among sinners. Instead of saying, "They are corrupted so I'm going to vote for a bunch of pagan perverts instead." You could vote for other third parties that would influence the nation to go further to the right instead of the left. Republicans do and would take note of losing votes to their right.
E.g.
http://www.constitutionparty.org/
I suspect that such a party will be anathema to you and that there are reasons that you're trying to find a way to support the Greens. However you may want to try, you can't really make it make sense to vote for the Greens/pagans as a matter of Christianity. A third party of its nature would drag the nation toward paganism/Nazism, not away from it.
"...There are other parties, but the greens are the only ones with a realistic shot at federal funding."
Look at the history of third parties, now is probably not the time in which any will be created. Any that are created on the Left are a negative and will tend to influence national tendencies if they are lifted up and supported.
Tocqueville argued that democracy tends toward mediocrity, see if you can imagine this happening now:
"Having become wearied of the follies of what are called 'leaders,' the people took the matter into their own hands, and decided the contest in a manner that has astounded all, not even excepting themselves."
(William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856, (1987) :137)
"It was no ordinary contest, in which political opponents skirmished for the amusement of an indifferent audience, but it was a great uprising of the people, in which the masses were politically, and to a considerable extent socially, divided and arrayed against each other. In fact, it was a fierce and angry struggle, the character of a revolution."
(Harry V. Jaffa, The Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates 23 (1959))
"He concluded in summary about the victorious Republican campaign that "there was a sense in which "the people' had taken it over" from the politicians and the media."
(Yale Law Journal. June, 1999 108 Yale L.J. 2237
SYMPOSIUM: Constitutional Moments and Punctuated Equilibria: A Political Scientist Confronts Bruce Ackerman's We the People
By Walter Dean Burnham)
The question, "What are we fighting for?" has to have an answer for positive change to happen. If people fight for change but do not know the correct answer then their revolution is a negative. Note that the Republican party and the revolution of its creation was greatly impacted and led by abolitionists. Abolitionists formed the party and sought to drag the nation away from the pagan tendency of a physical focus and deriving values from Nature which underlied slavery and pagan tribalism. In contrast, history shows how Greens/pagans will tend to influence a nation.
So, what are we fighting for? What are you fighting for?
Perhaps you should think about how it is that you've somehow found an excuse to support Nature worshipping Hedonists with their gods of Molech, idols of the Asherah trees, their typical perversions and the like.
It's not just the hair...a mere symbol. As we all now know, our choice of symbols/patterns/stereotypes is totally meaningless.
;-)
Ralph N. is actually not running Green. http://www.gp.org/ -- they have a different candidate. And Green isn't going to run in states where it is close between W and Kerry -- that would most likely include PA, since it's a fight there, with W ahead slightly. DE is probably solidly Kerry, so chances are Green would run there.
Again, I am leaning towards a write in vote.
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