On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 01:00:16AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
From: Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com> On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 10:15 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
A little search for e.g. "Trump marijuana" turns up some interesting articles and quotes. Left for the curious... Regardless of his position on drug prohibition, Rump is a terrible choice to lead this country. I wish Bernie was on the November ballot. Failing that, I wish Jill Stein had a realistic chance of winning the election; I really would prefer her over Hillary. The two-party system is broken. I don't really want Hillary, but I really, really, really don't want Rump, and a vote for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson (or for that matter, a vote for Charlie Brown or Santa Claus) could potentially help Rump win. Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com
Some of the first Green Parties were found in the 1970's, when Communism was dying and a bunch of European nuts were embarrassed about being seen as Communists. So, they figured they would form a crypto-Communist/Socialist party, pretend it focussed primarily on environmental issues.
The "Green Party" has been jokingly referred to as the "Watermelon Party": "Green on the outside, and Red on the inside". https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/05/green-party-conference-nata...
Funny, but sad in that it simply perpetuates the "communism is the great stupidity / evil / anti abundance" philosophy - and just as with democracy, we've rarely seen true communism (excepting perhaps the pre-Jesus Essenes). We need to bust the stereotypes and stigmas against personal political thought. We need to be proud to be whatever we see as uplifting and sane, be it aspects of "communism" or any particular political theory "wholus bolus"! When anyone saying something positive about some aspect of Communism, Stalinism, Anarchism, etc, gets shot down in subtle flames unchallenged, sure our conversation, and our world, is just that little bit more dead. Celebrate the positive, embrace one another's attempts to extract what might be of interest or utility or honour in not any conversation, but in every conversation. How else can we start? How else can we collectively improve/ grow?