Green Party Politics

The Green Alternative
In the annals of “mainstream” America, the Green Party is known quite well for the role they played in “spoiling” the election of 2000 for the Democratic Party. However, it is imperative that informed citizens note that the Greens were simply garnering votes from liberals and Greens (of course) that felt Al Gore was far too moderate and George W. Bush was far too conservative for their precious votes. I felt it was vital to understand more about the Green Party than the sometimes-comical assertion about Ralph Nader being a thorn in Al Gore’s side. To my previously general understanding, they present alternatives to the industrial-commercial-consumerist development that has run rampant throughout the same “mainstream” America that was mentioned before. The purpose of this paper is to express what I learned about the Green Party along with how I felt about what I discovered.
The Greens are probably best known for their principle of “ecological wis...