"You have to legalize drugs to win that war [on drugs]." - Trump

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 01:00:16AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
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> 
>  From: Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at 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 at 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-natalie-bennett

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?