The Green Party Politicians

Are they hypocrites? You decide.

The Green party states in the Preamble of their party platform that they have a "structure of democratic decentralism", yet they call for more federal legislation and/or funding multiple times in their platform and call for so many regulations on other people that it couldn't possibly be done without the force of a centralized federal government.

They also state, "The Green party carries forward the traditional values of the left: freedom, equality, and solidarity." Let's take a look at each of these traditional values.

Freedom

Almost every plank in the Greens platform calls for forcing someone to do something against his or her will. Much of what they call for is to force companies, especially banks to give up their business to the workers who did not take the risk or put up the funds to establish and grow the business. This is how socialist think. They want to do as little as possible and reap the benefits of a business owner. People who invest in publicly or privately owned companies take risks that these workers were not and are not willing to take. They want to have someone else build a business, provide the funds and through the force of government have the company taken away from those who built it and give it to the "democratic" workers. It is agreeable to remove the corporate structure as it exists today. Corporations are run by people who know that they do not have to take responsibility for much of what they do. However, that would involve simply removing the government sanctioned cloak that corporations operate under. In other words, less government is required to remedy theproblem, not more government.

The Greens also call for "publicly funded" health care, child care, socialist security, job security, education, candidate advertising, more farmer subsidation, and media broadcasting. The Greens idea of freedom is much the same as slave owners of the past in the US, they had the freedom to earn a living and the good life on the backs of their slaves. Just where do the Greens think that "public funds" come from.

Hard working Americans pay enough in taxes, but the Greens, in a guise of being a friend of labor, want to tax them more. The fact is, socialism makes slaves of all of us who work for a living. Socialist are not the friend of labor. Just the opposite, they are your enemy. They want you to do the work while they reap the benefits of your labor. The slaves were freed over a hundred years ago. The Greens would make us all slaves to their big brother government publicly funded programs. The Greens, like all socialist and communist, are elitist. The fact is, the only people who benefit from socialism or communism are those who are in power and the puppets who get the handouts. These systems, however, always fail, because the number of people who provide the benefits, or public funds, dwindles while those who reap the benefits grow. The system is destined to fail as it has in every other country in the world.

Equality

The Greens state that they favor equality, yet they also state that they want to "Strengthen civil rights, anti-discrimination, and affirmative action laws, programs, and enforcement." They state this after the heading "End Institutionalized Racism, Sexism, and Oppression of People with Disabilities". Affirmative Action programs in and of themselves are racist discriminatory programs by nature depending on the program. (See Affirmative Action; the Racist Movement.) Obviously one cannot have government discrimination and equality at the same time. It is appearant that the Greens have good intentions, but lack the logic for carrying out those intentions.

Solidarity

Well, solidarity doesn't sound so bad. If they are speaking of solidarity in the sense of a united America. United we stand, divided we fall, and all that. We are one country. Many of the left, including the Greens, express a desire to have an America the focuses on "diversity". They talk about forcing people to recognize other cultures. The United States of America is a culture, too. Most people who move here, do so to become part of the American Culture. If we spend a lot of time focusing on our differences, how will we learn to become joined in the American solidarity?

If, they are speaking of solidarity in the sense of protecting the collective and putting the collective ahead of the individual's rights, then we will definitely have a problem. They tried that in the Soviet Union. The people finally had enough of that, as Americans are starting to grow tired of it as well. Too many people are starting to realize that too many freedoms have to be given up to protect the collective. One cannot defend the Bill of Rights and protect the collective at the same time. The Bill of Rights is written to protect the individual, not the collective.

It is our Constitution, which includes our Bill of Rights, that makes our country great and so appealing to so many from around the world. It would take a change in the Constitution to use the form of solidarity that the Greens are appearantly (judging by the language of the rest of their platform) attempting to accomplish. Changing the Constitution to allow for this form of solidarity would make the United States the same as so many other countries around the world, thus removing us of the freedoms that our Constitution allows, thus removing the U.S. of its appeal to those from other countries. Hmmm, maybe that's the goal.

The Good Side of Green

Not all of what the Greens stand for is bad. It is a good thing to want equality for all, a healthy environment, even to bring our military back to this country where it belongs. It is a good thing to want to care for people and make sure that everybody has a job. There is nothing wrong at all with the plank of the Greens to support the Bill of Rights in full force and to end the failing "War on Drugs". These problems will only be solved logically, not emotionally.

There are a number of good intentions in the Greens platform, they just need to take a more educated look at how to apply solutions to the problems they address.

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