Policy 11/27/2011

• Nader didn’t “give us Bush”

  I don’t believe that Nader split the Democrat vote. I’d argue that the Democrats have co-opted the Green vote. And when we should all be working tirelessly to build a new platform with new candidates committed to climate solutions, instead we waste our votes on Democrats who are in pawn to the corporations the same as the Republicans. The greatest myth is that the Democrats will solve climate change – they will not. Only we can do that.

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  • Ross Hunter Climate change says we don’t have to the time to proceed on the current trajectory. Re-electing Obama and Democrats will NOT fix climate change in time to save us. Letting the old corrupt system fall wherever it falls and working for new climate-committed candidates is the only solution.

    I submit that if anyone votes Democrat simply from fear of the Republican alternative, they are being gamed by the good-cop, bad-cop system that has crushed grass roots movements for a century.

    And anyone who thinks voting once every 4 years is enough is missing the opportunity to work ceaselessly day after day for a true political solution – our own candidates, at all levels from local to national. This will take time but it won’t even start until we start.

    I used to like Obama but I prefer habeas corpus – the police state edges closer, and Obama’s record is truly scary in this arena. Republicans or Democrats, the rhetoric is different but the paymasters are the same – and they are opposed to climate solutions.

  • I was so glad to see DeChristopher lay this concept on the table. Voting for either of the the two main choices is NOT going to solve the climate crisis. The only solution must come from our own political action. Multitudes of deeply concerned good people must now begin to wean themselves away from their addiction to the Democrats, and not be afraid of the Republican bogeyman. It doesn’t matter who wins in 2012 unless it’s our own candidates – we will continue to lose, the planet will continue to lose even with a Democrat majority and Obama at the helm. Habeas corpus will still be suspended, the corporate police state will continue to encroach with approval from the White House, the planet will continue to warm irreversibly, and we will help to doom life on this planet because we couldn’t face the prospect of turning away from the Democrats and working tirelessly for political solutions of our own making.

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