>At 04:37 PM 10/31/00 -0800, Brad wrote:
>>>Aha!!!! I have found our problem, Michael..... I know more about your
>>>movement than you do. You will notice that I never wrote "the Greens,"
>>>but rather The Greens/Green Party USA. Not the capital "T" on The.
>>
>>
>>Bait-and-switch. Not one person in a thousand knows the difference
>>between the Greens and "The Greens/Green Party USA." Only someone
>>trying *hard* to deceive his or her interlocutors would refer to the
>>second in a discussion about the first.
>>
>>This goes too far, and deserves censure.
>
>Oh please, Brad.
>
>Consider the context. I don't understand how one person in a thousand can
>mistake The Greens (with a *capital* "T") *slash* Green Party USA for being
>anything other than a proper noun?
Not one person in a thousand knows that there is a "The Green Party
USA," or that "The Green Party USA"'s positions are... different...
from those of your standard, representative member of the Greens.
Bait-and-switch I said. And bait-and-switch it was. Shame on you.
Brad DeLong
