[lbo-talk] Paul Felton: Open Letter to Progressive Democrats

[John Adams]

On Sunday, April 4, 2004, at 10:09 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> Jeff Melton, a Green Party and Solidarity member and a Green candidate 
> in Indiana's 9th district <http://www.meltonforcongress.org/>, writes: 
> "That there was much more interest among Democrats in scapegoating 
> Nader for the outcome of the 2000 election than in seriously 
> challenging Bush's theft of it is [a] telltale sign that the 
> Democrats' chief concern is not that a third party like the Greens 
> would 'spoil' their candidates, but that a third party in conjunction 
> with a strong mass movement would challenge the two-party duopoly and 
> the rule of the corporate elite that both parties support.  This is 
> also suggested by the fact that the Democrats' efforts to stop a Green 
> from getting elected mayor of San Francisco, where there WAS NO 
> REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, were just as strenuous as their efforts 
> elsewhere"

One reason the Greens are worse than useless, that they are actually a 
backward step for the left, is that they find stupid fucking idiots 
like this Melton guy and run him for office--not for dogcatcher, mind 
you, but for a congressional seat.

So, what's the evidence this guy is a stupid fucking idiot? That he 
thinks the Democrats trying to win an election against a Green is proof 
that they're in collusion with the Republicans.

My new Green Party theme song: "I'm a loser, baby, why don't you kill 
me?"

Or maybe "Poor little greenie",

	John A