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Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Mon Sep 28 07:23:16 PDT 1998



>Johannes Schneider wrote:
>
>> I wouldnt trust the Greens at all. On social issues (taxes, pensions,
social insurance) they are to the right of the SPD, because union influence is much stronger on the SPD. The electorate of the Greens is the well-to-do liberal middle class, even the 'lefts' within the Greens like Trittin have to take this into account.
>
>Thanks for the warning on the Greens. I didn't realize that, though I guess
I should have. An elitist group, eh?>

I am shocked, just shocked. After all, in the U.S. it's completely similar.

Oh, pardon me. They're not the "real" greens. The green greens. The green wing of that red-green bird of eco- socialist paradise. The kind we tend never to find, except in Lower East Side coffee houses.

MBS



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