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| Introduction : the Green Party's missed opportunity in 2004 - and the opportunity still at hand | 13 | |
| Introduction part II : missing documents and summary of contents not included | 51 | |
| 1 | Run, Ralph run! | 57 |
| 2 | Appeal to Nader | 60 |
| 3 | The avocado declaration, initiated | 61 |
| 4 | The Green Party and the 2004 elections : a three-dimensional plan | 79 |
| 5 | For a Green presidential campaign in 2004 | 83 |
| 6 | A Green Party "safe states" strategy | 92 |
| 7 | Green Party 2004 presidential strategy | 96 |
| 1 | "Strategic voting" is strategic suicide | 99 |
| 2 | Debating the election : the democrats don't deserve our support | 103 |
| 3 | Debating the election : we have a responsibility to work to defeat Bush | 106 |
| 4 | Statement on Green strategy 2004 and call for dialogue and action | 109 |
| 5 | Run Ralph run, but as a Green | 112 |
| 6 | Letter to the steering committee and the presidential exploratory committee of the Green Party | 119 |
| 7 | Letter to Ralph Nader urging reconsideration of withdrawal | 122 |
| 8 | Endorsement, not nomination | 124 |
| 9 | Greens should endorse Nader | 126 |
| 10 | An open letter to Ralph Nader | 128 |
| 11 | Whither the nation? : an open letter | 130 |
| 12 | 2004 and the left | 134 |
| 13 | Endorse Nader | 141 |
| 14 | Letter to the nation | 146 |
| 15 | It's not easy being Green | 147 |
| 1 | Green Party unity | 149 |
| 2 | A few thoughts for the Green Party | 152 |
| 3 | The Green Party's step backward | 154 |
| 4 | Green and growing : an activist report back from the Green Party convention | 160 |
| 5 | How the Greens chose Kerry over Nader | 166 |
| 6 | Suicide right on the stage : the demise of the Green Party | 172 |
| 7 | Why I changed my voter registration today | 177 |
| 8 | A reply to Norman Solomon and Medea Benjamin : believing in a Green resistance | 178 |
| 9 | Growing the Green Party | 181 |
| 10 | Rigged convention, divided party : how David Cobb became the Green nominee even though he only got 12 percent of the votes | 184 |
| 11 | A response to Miller and Hill | 188 |
| 12 | Cut and run : the Green Party 2004 convention | 197 |
| 1 | Why vote for Ralph Nader? | 205 |
| 2 | A letter to the black caucus from a black woman living in South Central | 207 |
| 3 | From "maverick" to attack dog : Howard Dean's gay bashing of Ralph Nader | 210 |
| 4 | Vote Kerry and Cobb : an open letter to progressives | 212 |
| 5 | Money vs. people : the mystery of the 2004 elections | 214 |
| 6 | What you won't hear : twelve topics democrats will duck at convention | 218 |
| 7 | David Cobb's soft charade : the Greens and the politics of mendacity | 222 |
| 8 | Parties to injustice : democrats will do anything to keep me off the ballot | 224 |
| 9 | Only progressive unity can defeat Bush | 228 |
| 10 | An open letter to former Naderites running scared in 2004 | 231 |
| 1 | Political independence is the lesson of 2004 for progressives | 233 |
| 2 | New Mexico : a sobering lesson for practical fusion | 235 |
| 3 | The Greens are enduring, debating, and learning | 243 |
| 4 | Resurgence : the Green Party's remarkable transformation | 250 |
| 5 | Narcissism runs rampant : diagnosing the Green Party | 253 |
| 6 | Lessons from the 2004 elections | 256 |
| App. 1 | Reexamining the Green Party nominating convention : a statistical analysis | 271 |
| App. 2 | Proposals to the Green Party of the United States from the Greens for democracy and independence, Green Party of New York State | 292 |
| App. 3 | Which way forward for the Green Party? | 299 |
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Lori Stanick
reviewed Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate on March 05, 2009
Independent Politics
The world of progressive politics changed in 2000, when Nader took the left by storm, educating many people of the complicit injustices of both major parties. I was one of those people, a Libertarian at the time, and I found Nader extremely persuasive. He either argued for my Libertarian views, or else he persuaded me, but when all was said and done, I changed my voter registration to Green.
By 2004, it started becoming clear that Nader wasn't a typical Green. In fact, he wasn't a Green at all. He only played one for that election to help build it as an independent third party. In 2004, the Greens allowed themselves to be co-opted by the Democratic Party for fear of another term of Bush. This seemed to me like a suicidal move. What's the point of campaigning if your strategy is to avoid being too successful? Nevermind that Nader did not in fact spoil the election for Gore in 2000. In this winner-take-all system, "election spoiling" is the only possible way a third party could succeed. Exactly how bad does the Republican need to be before the Greens go running back to the Democrats? If they're unwilling to spoil elections for another party, why not just pack up and move in with that party? In fact, that's exactly what many Greens did in 2004.
This book helped me make sense of this whole charade. It's a collection of articles by various Greens, making up the gist of the debate between running a "safe states" strategy versus being a truly independent party. It's well-balanced, and presents all arguments, although the editor was arguing for independence. Peter Camejo did a beautiful job at articulating the independence argument in the Avacado Declaration. In other articles, it was argued that the primary election for David Cobb and the "safe states" strategy was unfair and biased. I didn't before realize just how many internal problems the Green Party has.
My verdict is that the Green Party is an immature, scattered, disorganized, harmless little party consisting mostly of socialists and disgruntled Democrats. Aside from Nader, they don't seem to take themselves very seriously. The Democrats in the Greens will ensure that they never really upset their chosen party, which basically renders them irrelevant. When they're not busy bickering with each other, or trying to avoid speaking up too loudly for fear of the Democrats, they make some good arguments. But they're not Nader, and I'm neither a Democrat nor a socialist, so I probably won't be voting Green anymore.
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