Reply #57: Go Greens ... BUT [View All]

[Taeger]

I think it's great that the Greens are focusing on Regionalism. Get VERY local. Run LOCAL candidates in the areas where their ultra-progressive platform will WIN.

IndianaGreen - I like you. But growing the Green party in Indiana (I live here too) is like growing grass in Death Valley. Indiana needs a more "center-progressive" ideology to capture local races (like councilmen, mayors, state reps, county reps, sherrifs, and Congresman). Indiana needs an alliance that looks like the following:

1) Pro Agriculture and Blue Collar workers (anti rich fuckers!!!). This is the prime demographic.
2) Pro Religion, but not Religious domination. Get out your Jefferson Bible and start quoting away ;-)
3) Progressive state taxation (Indiana taxes are VERY regressive). As you know, this is a SERIOUS issue right now with the botched re-assessment job.
4) Pro-family care and services.
5) Education reform including a serious pro student discipline stance. More money for industrial arts training at the secondary level. Money for county bootcamps that can successfully separate problem students (the ones who DISRUPT school, not the one's with poor grades) from the general student population and teach them discipline.
6) Pro-law enforcement. Get money for MORE cops.
7) Anti illegal immigrant. There are TONS of immigrants in Northwest Indiana, but MOST of them are legal. Don't believe that legal migrants don't RESENT illegal migrants since the illegals drive down wages without having stood in line like the legals.
8)Pro Racial Unity. Policies should stress the similarities between folks of different creed. The enemy is poverty and shitty jobs for poor WHITE, BLACK and LATINO populations. Poverty ISN'T a racial issue.



Etc... you get my drift.