Could the Democrats and Greens ever "marry".......

[Catchawave]

I just love the Green Party platform, especially:

"Sustainable Agriculture

Fair Farm Price Supports: Reform farm price supports to cover the costs of production plus a living income for family farmers and farmworker cooperatives.
Subsidize Transition to Organic Agriculture: Subsidize farmers' transition to organic agriculture while natural systems of soil fertility and pest control are being restored.
Support Small Farmers: Create family farms and farm worker cooperatives through a homesteading program and land reform based on acreage limitations and residency requirements.
Break Up Corporate Agribusiness: Create family farms and farmworker cooperatives through a homesteading program and land reform based on acreage limitations and residency requirements."

I've always wondered if the Dems just need to be more compassionate and less corporate.

The entire platform can be read here: http://www.greenparty.org/Platform.php

[AFSCME girl]

1. Hi Catchawave,

Thanks for posting this (and for the link, too.) I have been mulling over joining the Green Party for some time, but never really looked into it.

AFSCME girl

:hi:

[flvegan]

2. Well, I'm a Green.

Registered Green, even. My org came out for Nader's previous run in 2000. I, like many others, have aligned myself with the dems to make an impact with the party most closely akin to my beliefs.

E Magazine had a good editorial that briefly sums up what I'm saying. Check it out here:

http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2454&src=QSA040

[AFSCME girl]

4. This is a great link, flvegan..

thanks for posting it!

[CrispyQ]

3. Recently I've dreamed that

the true conservatives & the DLC dems join to form a new conservative party. The progressive dems & greens join to form a new truly progressive party & together, both parties kick those "we're afraid of change & anyone/thing different than us" neo-cons out on their useless bums.

Thanks for this link. I may consider switching to the green party based on their take of corporate personhood alone! You are spot on about the dems needing to be less corporate. You can't represent the people & the corporations at the same time.


snip from their section Economic Democracy...

Eliminate Corporate Personhood: Legislation or constitutional amendment to end the legal fiction of corporate personhood.

End Corporate Limited Liability: Make corporate shareholders bear the same liabilities as other property owners.