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Green Party a real alternative
By Marc Estrin, The Times Argus 4/28/2004
As George Bush and John Kerry compete for who can be tougher on terrorism, who can be more supportive of Israel, and who can be the most credible champion of American global hegemony, many poor citizens look around for some real alternative to bipartisan destructive madness.
That alternative is there. Candidates from the Green Party in more than 40 states are running on platforms that embrace the four key Green values: ecological wisdom, nonviolence, social justice, and grassroots democracy, free of corporate control.
It is true that at the moment Greens will not be winning national office: the anti-third party bias - locked in over many years by Democrats and Republicans - is too great. But Greens will be winning more and more local and statewide elections. And in running, they will articulate for the public language and ideas uncommon in normal, mass-media discourse.
The Green Party values which will emerge during this election season will make it clear to Americans that the two-party system is more like a 1.2 party system, and that alternatives are not only possible but urgent.
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