Reply #167: Gotta respond to this...

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These are the people who ran a candidate against Paul Wellstone

You're making a lot of assumptions in this one line.

I'm from MN. I have friends that are activisits/leaders in the DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) Party and the Green Party MN.

The Senate endorsement issue RE: Wellstone was a difficult issue for many Greens in this state. Almost half the Greens were either 1) in favor of "cross-endorsing" Wellstone, or 2) didn't want to endorse a US Senate candidate, because Wellstone was running.

I know a large number of Greens supported and campaigned for Wellstone, even though the Greens had endorsed a candidate. You see, Greens are typically not of a single mind in regards to issues like this: they can be pragmatic when they see a need to be-- which was especially the case in Wellstone's 2002 race.

I think the demonization of the Green progressives by the Democrats will only hurt them in the long run. If we somehow think that luring the 3% of the "swing voters" to the party (swing voters, I might add, who are usually not activisits of any sort) instead of an untold number of left-progressives (who usually ARE activists) makes more sense, then in the future we'll lose more elections than we'll win, IMHO.