Comments on: Chris Hedges advises progressives to join the Green Party

By: paulie

paulie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:10:56 +0000

And quite a few vote for “bad” to keep out “terrible” and later realize they got “just as bad” or “even worse.”

But, bad habits are hard to break. Lord knows I’ve had my share.

By: paulie

paulie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:09:21 +0000

DSH,

“everyone” doesn’t say that.

A few do, but probably only because they don’t realize that “bad” and “terrible” are joined at the hip and whenever you vote for one you get both.

Two sides of the same bad penny.

The whole thing is rotten, and spoiling it is impossible.

No, I am most certainly not joking.

If I was, I would still be a Democrat. And I’m not.

By: Dale Sheldon-Hess

Dale Sheldon-Hess — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:04:00 +0000

Paulie, Sam: You’re joking, right? When, in retrospect, everyone who voted for your candidate smacks themselves in the head and says “D’oh; you mean, if I’d voted for ‘bad’ instead ‘good’, I wouldn’t've gotten ‘terrible’?”

GP Fan: State party meeting is suppose to be this month, we’ll see (although if there’s a residency requirement, I’m screwed, I just moved here.)

By: Green Party fan

Green Party fan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:41:54 +0000

Dale Sheldon-Hess,

run on the ballot as a Green Party candidate and advocate this message.

That’s how you do it…

By: Green Party fan

Green Party fan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:40:46 +0000

Chris Hedges, the Green Party thanks you.

By: Green Party fan

Green Party fan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:40:23 +0000

For Green Party leaders, and Green Party members this part of the article is especially welcomed, and kind.

” It is the only alternative left to save our embattled open society. We can begin by sending a message to the Green Party, McKinney and Nader. Let them know they are no longer alone.”

By: Green Party fan

Green Party fan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:32:27 +0000

Bravo!

Great Green Party story!

Thank you!

The Green Party IS both the short term and long term fix.

Put 435 Green Party candidates on the ballot in ever U.S. House race in 2010 and you’ll be delighted and amazed at how many get elected…

Whenever Greens put candidates on the ballot their ration of getting elected is through the roof and amazing!

Get on the ballot today as a Green!

By: Sam Holloway

Sam Holloway — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:09:47 +0000

Good question, Paulie. I await a reasonable answer.

By: chazzie

chazzie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:48:18 +0000

“We will be bombarded with slick commercials about hope and change and spoken to in a cloying feel-your-pain language. We will be made afraid. ”

So it will be another election year with the same ads from the two main parties… how insightful.

By: paulie

paulie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:56:53 +0000

until you spoil another election

How do you spoil something so rotten?

By: Straight ..........

Straight .......... — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:17:56 +0000

from a Perot, Perot, Nader, Nader, Nader voter”

“told ya so, told ya so, told ya so ………”

By: Dale Sheldon-Hess

Dale Sheldon-Hess — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:53:28 +0000

“A shift to the Green Party, McKinney and Nader, along with genuine grass-roots movements, will not be a quick fix. It will require years in the wilderness. ”

Years in the wilderness building support, until you spoil another election and 95% of your support runs crying back to the major party they came from.

The Green party needs to start supporting approval and score voting if they want to avoid this.