The Green Party Takes Itself Very Seriously, But No One Else Should

[ConservativeDemocrat]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-green-party-is-a-joke_us_57a8c341e4b0aae2a5a0a464

HOUSTON ― Three Green Party activists walked into a McDonald’s. It sounds like the start of a bad joke ― and in a way, it was ― but three Green Party activists actually did walk into a McDonald’s on Saturday; specifically the McDonald’s in the University of Houston’s student center, where the far-left party had convened to nominate physician Jill Stein and human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as its presidential and vice presidential candidates.

“I try not to buy things from Walmart and eat at McDonald’s,” one said, frowning, his politics laid bare by his T-shirt: “WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE USA? Capitalism and Greed | Racism (White Supremacy) | Religion.” However, most of the center’s dining options were closed for the weekend, meaning attendees faced the unappetizing option of going hungry or stomaching a tray full of corporatist, anti-worker, GMO-laden bile washed down with a McFlurry.

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But the disorganization, borderline paranoia and participation-ribbon mentality (literally, if the press badges were to be believed) on display left little hope that the Green Party will be anything more than an unproductive nuisance through November. Even when one calibrates one’s expectations ― it’s a given that the Green Party convention will more closely resemble a gathering of nursery school music teachers than hardened political operators ― what transpired was dismaying.

There was the convention’s agenda. It allotted ample time for privilege-checking and inventorying of everyone’s contributions to the dominant paradigm, but very little attention for nuts-and-bolts organizing, get-out-the-vote plotting and press strategizing. During one of the first gatherings of party officials Saturday morning, delegates spent nearly an hour on breathing exercises and aimless discussion about their “anti-oppression skills.” Participants came away knowing how to locate the “deep blue indigo tunnel” at the “throat center,” but not how to write an effective fundraising email.

As a political activist, this made me laugh out loud.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I have been to many such functions, often led by similar people...

with a beautiful dream but no plan.

I am especially fond of one group, new to New Jersey politics, who met earnestly making plans to take over and clean up Newark.

I had to leave early.

Those were the days of the sainted Kucinich, in whose name one could do no wrong. Or much of anything, actually.

[bluestateguy]

2. Please just someody make the Green Party threads stop

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