Reply #48: Once checked on Green success internationally + they didn't seem to ever get more than . . .

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10% of the vote. But, Europeans have many parties -- and still we can see that they were pulled to the right. Whether it was a legitimate pull or more dirty tricks by the CIA, I don't know.

US worked from the end of WWII probably til now to ensure that no truly liberal/socialist government could arise.

And certainly an environmentally concerned party would have been seen as radical.

The Green Party platform is great -- and I worked with the Greens while Nader was running -- though I didn't vote for him because my kids were scared that Bush would get elected!!! --

BUT . . . NOTICE . . . rather than the Democrats trying to use the Greens to do just that -- bring the parties to the left -- the Democrats have done all they can to keep third parties at bay --
and to co-opt the Green Party -- in fact, trying to pull the Green Party to the right!!!

The "scapegoating" of Nader which was so highly successful in taking attention off the many criminal things that happened in the 2000 election . . . from black box voting and uncounted ballots to butterfly ballots -- from the fascist GOP rally at Miami-Dade Election HQs to shutdown the vote counting -- to the final AX of the Supreme Gang of 5 putting Bush in the White House . . .
created such venom among Democrats who believed this lie that I think the GOP have succeeded in keeping Dems and Greens from uniting or working together in any way against them.