Feb

6

(DV) Goldsmith: Don’t Be Evil

[From Dissident Voice]

In a recent article, Bernard Weiner addressed the issue squarely: do we continue to pressure the Dems and work within, or start a new party? For my own part, I can no longer support the Democratic Party. I have no interest in a Vichy government. I don’t want to collaborate, but they obviously do, jumping up and applauding a dictator as he tells the nation during his State of the Union exactly why he’s had to set aside our laws and constitution.  
 
We need a total change of paradigm. Nothing else will do. It seems to me the one platform that unites most Americans, and most citizens of the world, is a Green platform. While we are being manipulated by images and bloodlust illusions from the past, the future is evaporating. 2005 was the warmest year since records started being kept about a hundred years ago. Five of the warmest years on record occurred in the past decade.  

 

That’s why I’m going Green.
 
I’ve thought about this for a long time, but I’ve been held back, in part, by my lingering hatred of Nader from 2000 through 2004. But I can admit now what I couldn’t admit even a year ago: there is no difference between the two parties. The true test of that proposition is not whether the world would have been a different place had Al Gore taken his rightful office — and here I still vehemently disagree with Mr. Nader — but whether Gore had the power to take office after winning. He didn’t. Even with Bill Clinton the sitting president, all the institutions of government closed ranks against Gore, including the Democratic leadership. 
 
It’s time we stop pouring all our organizing resources and energy into a rigged electoral game. We certainly have to stop believing that a party that won’t make fair elections its number one priority is the hope of the future. It’s insane! 
 
We are going to have to find a different way to send a message. We need to target Republicans and corporations directly. They still need to manufacture some level of public acceptance and consent, and we have to disrupt that. You don’t do that by writing a letter begging Hillary Clinton to filibuster. 
 
God knows the Greens have their problems. They are divided, too, because the Dems, via Progressive Democrats of America, are looking to acquire the Green Party as a far-left (in their terms) political boutique. If people want to get involved in reforming a party from within, I suggest they put their efforts where they might actually make a difference, within the Green Party, where the burning question is at least being addressed, namely, do we try to partner with corporations, through the corporate parties, or do we stay clear of them entirely? 

 

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