From: Robert Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>So, do not assume that the Greens are done. That is >>exactly the same >>as thinking that failed to foresee the bursting of >>the tech-bubble and >>the crash of the stock market.
No, it's not the same thinking. The fallacy of the tech bubble involved ignoring all historic trends of the US economy. This kind of thinking recognizes that the US historically has been a 2-party system and that it's going to be pretty difficult for a third party to compete. While I agree that the Green vision of public policy is indeed long-sighted (a "vision of public policy" also being something that the DFL would be wise to think about), I haven't seen a Green plan to implement their vision. How does the Green caucus propose to implement their key values on the city council, where they have a sizeable minority of votes? One of my problems with the Green party (apart from their platform and vision, parts of which I do not agree with) is that they're great at espousing "meta" statements about general things but seem to have *no* way to put their plans into action. I think they Minnesota Green Party would probably do better than the 2%-4% they got statewide (despite the fact they got the endorsement of the Strib for SOS) if they seemed to have their head out of the clouds a bit more, as it were. Patrick Peterson Dinkytown ===== __________________ PatrickPeterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim:a11235patrick tel:612.379.4722 __________________ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
