[lbo-talk] Green Party 2004

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Yoshie:
> It is said that "[a]t least 174 Greens in 24 states hold elected 
> office as of May 2003" in the United States (Cf. 
> <http://www.feinstein.org/greenparty/electeds.html>) -- mainly at the 
> level of city councils and school boards, it seems.  You can access 
> the Green election results from 1985 till 2002 at 
> <http://greens.org/elections/>.  At this rate of bottom-up progress, 
> we may speculate that the party will not be in a position to become a 
> serious contender for presidency until well into the next century -- 
> if we believe in a gradualist theory of incremental changes.

There is something in between gradualism and immaculate conception.  For
example, strategic allocation of resources to capture governorship in a
state or two.  Seems like a better strategy than running a presidential
candidate, which - as a saying from my old country goes - is like
attacking the sun with a hoe. 

Wojtek