Oh please say it aint so.
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I guess I don't have anything against the Greens. If/when Lizbeth and I go back to New Zealand, if we end up staying I'll probably register as a Green. The Green party there actually enjoys a great deal of popularity and power (at least with the people I talked to). But New Zealand is a very small country and is still largely agrarian. The greens have no doubt played a large role in that and I am immensely grateful to them for it.
Nonetheless, in a country as large and industrialized as the US, with companies moving jobs overseas to countries without all those pesky emmissions and pay standards, I can't help but think that the exacerbation of such problems that the Greens would cause with well-meaning but expensive penalties against businesses would far outweigh the good they would (try to) do... at least in the short run.
Put it this way: I think that, if by some miracle they got someone like Nader into office, the Greens would do what we as a country probably ought to do, but also might ruin us economically in the process.
Whatever. I've never had much luck with these 'assess your political standpoint' tests. We took one in our government class in high school and mine came back split 50/50 between Republican and Peace and Freedom (basically, socialist)... WTF?
Either way, I really ought to do more reading before I talk about this stuff. =:\ <sigh>
The Green Party, You support equality and mother
earth.
Want to know what political party you really are?
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I guess I don't have anything against the Greens. If/when Lizbeth and I go back to New Zealand, if we end up staying I'll probably register as a Green. The Green party there actually enjoys a great deal of popularity and power (at least with the people I talked to). But New Zealand is a very small country and is still largely agrarian. The greens have no doubt played a large role in that and I am immensely grateful to them for it.
Nonetheless, in a country as large and industrialized as the US, with companies moving jobs overseas to countries without all those pesky emmissions and pay standards, I can't help but think that the exacerbation of such problems that the Greens would cause with well-meaning but expensive penalties against businesses would far outweigh the good they would (try to) do... at least in the short run.
Put it this way: I think that, if by some miracle they got someone like Nader into office, the Greens would do what we as a country probably ought to do, but also might ruin us economically in the process.
Whatever. I've never had much luck with these 'assess your political standpoint' tests. We took one in our government class in high school and mine came back split 50/50 between Republican and Peace and Freedom (basically, socialist)... WTF?
Either way, I really ought to do more reading before I talk about this stuff. =:\ <sigh>
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why am i not surprised?
Date: 2003-06-29 12:56 pm (UTC)The Few The Proud The COMMUNIST!
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Re: why am i not surprised?
Date: 2003-06-29 10:54 pm (UTC)Not quite. . .
Date: 2003-06-29 09:58 pm (UTC)We took one in our government class in high school and mine came back split 50/50 between Republican and Peace and Freedom (basically, socialist)... WTF?
. . .
D A R
Richter, baby. You two were soulmates and you never knew. How sad.
Re: Not quite. . .
Date: 2003-06-30 05:54 am (UTC)That's scary on so many levels...
=:P
Yeah, yeah, I know what you meant. Though I didn't know his political leanings could be characterized quite that way.
Maybe if Nader got into office but someone was there to keep him in line through persistent chest-poking...
just out of curiosity....
Date: 2003-06-30 09:23 am (UTC)Re: just out of curiosity....
Date: 2003-06-30 10:34 am (UTC)Like I said earlier, though, I acknowlege that I should educate my opinion more before making too much noise. Recommendations?
Re: just out of curiosity....
Date: 2003-06-30 10:53 am (UTC)mostly i'd recommend going to see him speak if you ever get the chance.
Re: just out of curiosity....
Date: 2003-07-01 10:25 pm (UTC)I had forgotten about the chest poking, although I can't imagine how as I stil have a 2 inch indentation from the boy. Gah. . .
I suggest D.A.R for this particular politcal position because I met him as a "struggling libertarian" complaining about how hard it was to meed good looking conservative women in Santa Cruz, and by junior year he was living in Peter Euben's office.
I voted for Nader in 2000 as part of a complicated scheme to further the private sector manned space program.
--Andrew