[lbo-talk] Re: Greens for Nader!

[Seth Kulick]

> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:05:07 -0400
> From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>
> The Green Party's voting process of the electoral college that
> apportions electors to states based on their total populations rather
> than numbers of state Green Party members -- determined by the
> fearful technocratic faction of Medea Benjamins who cannot endure
> flaks from their Democratic friends and who need patronage of their
> Democratic benefactors for survival -- at its national convention was

I voted for Nader in 2000, and had many quite vicious arguments with friends
and family about it.  I've subscribed to the Green Alliance list for a number
of years, and reading it these days is a very depressing experience.  The
idea that fellow Greens can disagree with the Nader choice for any of
a number of reasons while still retaining common goals of change in society
and the growth of the Green Party is apparently completely foreign to most
contributers to the list.  It is full of this sort of stuff - the
"fearful technocratic faction", those who lack "principle" and "cannot
endure flak", etc. etc.  All the while engaging in the most ludicrous
fantasies about Bush self-destructing and it becoming a Nader/Kerry
race (I am not kidding - people really say this).  Joel Kovel's piece was
completely on target.