Greens Go Nuts- Nominate opponent to Wellstone

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Tue May 28 19:40:00 PDT 2002



>On Sun, 26 May 2002, Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>> The Greens argued that they differed from progressive Democrats in that they
>> would create an organization that could consistently elect good candidates.
>> What Minnesota shows is all they have created is an organization bent on
>> nominating spoiler candidates, whatever their politics.
>
>Nonsense. You can't spoil what's already rotten to the core and oozing the
>most godawful rot. If Wellstone really want to practice what he preaches,
>then let him join the Greens or offer a substantive critique of our
>shitty electoral system, which no Third World country would tolerate
>for a second. But the Dems as an institution are just atrocious, a vast
>money and commitment-sink. The Dem-Rep machine is what the US has where
>the Soviets had the CCCP; in fact, in this Democratic Party, Mike
>Bloomberg is a flaming tax-and-spend liberal.
>
>-- Dennis

Can't fight rot with rot, though. -- Yoshie

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