Scott McLarty is the media coordinator for the national Green Party. Read his full piece on OpEdNews.com:
The traditional spectrum of Republican-conservative on the right and Democrat-liberal at the left, with a gray area for moderates in the middle, belongs in the trash. The ‘centrist’ gap between the two parties is really an overlap where Republican and Democrat politicians are most enthusiastically loyal to corporate lobbies, with euphemisms like “Republican moderate,” “Democratic Leadership Council,” “blue dog,” and “triangulation” to describe them.A more accurate spectrum would find most Republicans at the furthest extreme and most of the Democratic Party next to them. This is the side that serves corporate power, profit, and privilege. It embraces the ideology that underpins state capitalism, a condition in which major corporations have grown so powerful that government’s chief purpose is to take marching orders from them.Think of government as a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric, Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Monsanto, Wall Street, the insurance and pharmaceutical cartels, and other top industries. (China, which now provides cheap labor for corporations, has shown us that both communism and capitalism can be subsumed into the state capitalist system.)What’s on the other side of the new spectrum? In the US, not much, if we’re talking about political clout. Some Democrats like Dennis Kucinich, Greens, environmental and community activists, socialists, unions that haven’t placed allegiance to Democratic politicians ahead of their members’ needs, even some libertarians and traditional conservatives who recognize that unrestrained corporate power is as much a menace as state power.
……even some libertarians and traditional conservatives who recognize that unrestrained corporate power is as much a menace as state power.
Yes. And vice versa as well.
Kimberley
My first thought as well. However, moot point. The national Green Party is dead. They have not released a financial statement since 2009. The National Greens have stopped even discussion. I follow their “work” via the GP website. As a former delegate, I know how to do that.
As an aside, I have been banned from posting comments on Op Ed News (along with many other “progressive sites”) because I and others dared tell the truth about president Oily-Bomber. BEFORE the election. I had been a regular contributor and had articles published.
So I am not terribly surprised that Green Party media coordinator Scott McClarty is “allowed” to have articles published on Op Ed News.
Also…I am not enrolled in the Green Party anymore. But, really, should someone paid to be a media person for the national Green Party even waste his breath praising major party elected officials? What is the real point? And, is doing so appropriate?
Some interesting ideas in the blurb.
Though…
It worries me when people congratulate Dennis Kucinich. When Kucinich had a chance to say PEACE with himself and his delegates at the Democratic Presidential Convention (when, was that…2004?…hmmmm?…) he really whimped out. Big time. He whimped out. He sold out. He showed his bottom line.
Also, when a Green Party elected was running for office in Maine, Dennis Kucinich’s campaign targeted that green’s district, and basically tried to suck the progressive sap from fledgling green energy, instead of actually focusing on his own campaign, and his own best chances for votes.
So, Kucinich is not the knight in shining armor some people wish he was. (In fact, maybe he is wearing some of the armor, and that is why he can’t truly stand up for peace…)