What do you think of this Green Party Issue Position Comparison?

[Gothic Sponge]

In a better political climate i would probably be a Green.

http://www.therealdifference.com/issues.html

[mzmolly]

1. This is SUCH bullshit! If ONE democrat supports X, it is added

the the "Democrats support" category. Goes to show you the lack of integrity this site has.

[mzmolly]

2. Here's a better - more realistic comparison from the Green Party

http://changein04.com/mainContent/bvsk.php

[sffreeways]

3. They neglected to mention

civil rights for GLBT Americans. Which is important to me.

Aside from that they have always had a platform I like. But I can't do it. I can't in good conscience vote for them knowing it would help Bush get in again and hurt the nation and the rest of the world. Maybe when the republican party has been scattered and crushed I would entertain the idea. I'd like to see the two national parties be the Green and Democratic parties. That would be a nice change for the better. I think it's like that in France. Their conservative party is alot like our conservative democrats and their liberal parties are green and left of green.

edited for an unresponsive keyboard. I have to pratically hammer on the keys. I hope Kerry wins and this damn economy improves so I can get a lap top.

[whalerider55]

4. in this climate

i am one of the 200 elected greens in the country. on the local level, the small city/town level, party affiliation doesn't matter here in massachusetts, where independents outnumber either party.

my politcal positions are green, they would be comfortable for any democrat i know to vote for; and i have never and probably would never vote for a republican.

i have worked in over a dozen democratic campaigns as a volunteer, going way back to McCarthy, McGovern and the best candidate never to get elected, Mo Udall. Senate, presidential and congressional.

My own personal position, argued often with the national and state green parties (two different entities) is that Greens should be running in local races to gain experience in the governing and legislative process; and not at the federal level- yet. the way most states have structured their recognition of parties forces the greens to run a national candidate and get a percentage of the national vote to remain on the ballot as a party. them's the rules. change the rules would be fine by me.

and please keep in mind. Nader was endorsed by the party in 2000, he was never has never and is not a member of the party.

and as much as i truly admire David CObb, there was a lively debate as to whether the stakes were too high to run a national candidate.

hence greens for kerry, which i strongly support.

whalerider55

[Warpy]

5. The Greens need to grow up

The leaders have to give up their little fiefdoms and figure out how to build a coalition party with all the other little progressive parties around the country. If or when they do that, they will have a membership that can't be ignored, and they'll have a chance of dragging one of the two big parties a few millimeters to the left.

Factionalism always screws up the left, and it's done that job very nicely with the dozen or so little progressive splinter parties out there in various parts of the country. Only when the largest of these parties realizes that the only way it's going to be much of a force is to compromise, make deals, and actually start exercising politics in building a progressive party everybody can live with.

[mitchum]

6. Are they still around? I thought that they surely imploded after...

their ill-considered hustle for matching funds in 2000. I'll stick with the Dems for "left lite"

[paulk]

7. it's easy to take unworkable and unrealistic positions

when you have no chance of being elected.

The Greens had a chance to build a real party but they blew it - they went for Nader's instant gratification instead of doing the grassroots work they should have been doing...

They are very close to becoming irrelevant.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. I'm a Green regardless of the climate. But in this situation

feel I have to vote for Kerry to get Bush out. Not the first time I've voted for a non-Green. Probably not the last either.