He was so insistent that everybody who didn't vote Green was ignorant and controlled by the corporations. He used the word ignorant. Nader will save us, he said. Vote Green. Nader for President.
"Nader isn't running as the Green party candidate this year, man. He hasn't been the endorsed candidate for more than a year."
Decisions are made by those who show up.
To do my daily part of that, I read the news. You can be informed and Republican, informed and Democrat, i
He was so insistent that everybody who didn't vote Green was ignorant and controlled by the corporations. He used the word ignorant. Nader will save us, he said. Vote Green. Nader for President.
It's painful for me, as an occasional Green activist, when people still associate Nader with the Green ticket. He was very helpful to the party for the last two elections, primarily because of his name recognition.
But somewhere along the way (or possibly all the way along), he forgot that this isn't a Perot-style one-man show. Nader has an agenda that somewhat matches ours, but we have highly divergent ideas of how that agenda should be promulgated. He thinks it's all about the next election. We (or at least, I) believe it's all about the next generation.
The Green Party grew up this year at their national convention. It was no Repo-Demo style coronation, but a raucous exercise in true grass-roots democracy. In the end, one-time Texan David Cobb [votecobb.org] and his message of "build the party from the bottom up" won out.
I'm looking forward to the next election cycle... not the next Presidential election, but the next local election. Now that people know who we are, and we have leadership that's visibly dedicated to building the party, we can keep electing Greens to the local school board, city council, state legislature... and on up to the national level.
Hey Kids (Score:3, Insightful)
He was so insistent that everybody who didn't vote Green was ignorant and controlled by the corporations. He used the word ignorant. Nader will save us, he said. Vote Green. Nader for President.
"Nader isn't running as the Green party candidate this year, man. He hasn't been the endorsed candidate for more than a year."
Decisions are made by those who show up.
To do my daily part of that, I read the news. You can be informed and Republican, informed and Democrat, i
Re:Hey Kids (Score:2)
It's painful for me, as an occasional Green activist, when people still associate Nader with the Green ticket. He was very helpful to the party for the last two elections, primarily because of his name recognition.
But somewhere along the way (or possibly all the way along), he forgot that this isn't a Perot-style one-man show. Nader has an agenda that somewhat matches ours, but we have highly divergent ideas of how that agenda should be promulgated. He thinks it's all about the next election. We (or at least, I) believe it's all about the next generation.
The Green Party grew up this year at their national convention. It was no Repo-Demo style coronation, but a raucous exercise in true grass-roots democracy. In the end, one-time Texan David Cobb [votecobb.org] and his message of "build the party from the bottom up" won out.
I'm looking forward to the next election cycle... not the next Presidential election, but the next local election. Now that people know who we are, and we have leadership that's visibly dedicated to building the party, we can keep electing Greens to the local school board, city council, state legislature... and on up to the national level.
It's a great time to be Green!