Not an endorsement but I will say the US Greens seem to be better than most international green parties, so far as I can tell. In many countries I think the greens exist to fracture the coalitions of labor/socdem parties, whereas in US for most people they're a protest vote against the conservative tilt of the dems.
Yeah, I vaguely remember hearing this as well. Some slight amount of research had me digging up that a month ago he wrote something in the WSJ with a conservative saying Desantis' plan to accept a Classic Learning Test over the SAT/ACT is fantastic basically. A test used primarily by home schooled kids and private schools seems fishy to me.
Yes, this is what is currently criticized as support for tests which do filter out plenty of people for classist and white supremacist reasons. However I personally don't know what the Classic Learning Test is supposed to be. But I wouldn't like to learn the classics for university exams and wouldn't want tests in any case.
The Green Party in America has such a scattered organizational structure that in a sense reminds me of how a lot of socialist parties operate here. They have a top level leadership that supposedly does coordination, and they print out pamphlets and stuff, but on the ground organization is very autonomous.
Because of that, local green party branches can often be far more radical than others. I used to talk a lot with the Green Party out of New Orleans, and they absolutely called themselves socialists. They used to hang out with a lot of Trots in the area. This was like 10 years ago, but they would regularly do volunteer work in poor areas. They did a lot of gutting houses after hurricanes or floods. Good people. I should also point out that Howie Hawkins was their presidential nominee in 2020, and he does identify as a socialist and was a lifelong union organizer. Where I live now the Greens are more tepid though, and mostly try to be slightly more left Democrats.
Personally I think the Green Party in the US has a hard time focusing, and if I didn't know any better I'd say they're mainly just a pet project for very out of touch rich liberal types, like professors with book deals or heirs to oil fortunes who feel guilty about it. They can't seem to decide if they're a serious electoral party or if they're a grassroots movement for environmental issues. I wish I could take them more seriously.
They also have a serious, serious problem with allowing in various "woo" things like anti-vaccine rhetoric, stuff about alternative medicines, weird proposals regarding education. They're also staunchly anti-nuclear, which is one of the absolutely goofiest party platforms you can have as supposed environmentalists. The only anti-nuclear socialists I can take half seriously are the ones in Japan, because at least with them I can understand the trepidation. Like I still don't agree with Japanese socialists on that, but I get it.
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because usually they are not socialists, just bike-riding capitalists. at least that's what they are here in Canada.
Not an endorsement but I will say the US Greens seem to be better than most international green parties, so far as I can tell. In many countries I think the greens exist to fracture the coalitions of labor/socdem parties, whereas in US for most people they're a protest vote against the conservative tilt of the dems.
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I call them the Salt-Spring Liberals.
cornel also has been saying sus stuff lately. dont remember exactly tho cause im a bimbo
Yeah, I vaguely remember hearing this as well. Some slight amount of research had me digging up that a month ago he wrote something in the WSJ with a conservative saying Desantis' plan to accept a Classic Learning Test over the SAT/ACT is fantastic basically. A test used primarily by home schooled kids and private schools seems fishy to me.
I'll have to see if I find anything else.
Yes, this is what is currently criticized as support for tests which do filter out plenty of people for classist and white supremacist reasons. However I personally don't know what the Classic Learning Test is supposed to be. But I wouldn't like to learn the classics for university exams and wouldn't want tests in any case.
2012 - "Raegan was good actually for squashing communism" - West, apparently. I think his tweet about it is still up, but its easily findable.
The Green Party in America has such a scattered organizational structure that in a sense reminds me of how a lot of socialist parties operate here. They have a top level leadership that supposedly does coordination, and they print out pamphlets and stuff, but on the ground organization is very autonomous.
Because of that, local green party branches can often be far more radical than others. I used to talk a lot with the Green Party out of New Orleans, and they absolutely called themselves socialists. They used to hang out with a lot of Trots in the area. This was like 10 years ago, but they would regularly do volunteer work in poor areas. They did a lot of gutting houses after hurricanes or floods. Good people. I should also point out that Howie Hawkins was their presidential nominee in 2020, and he does identify as a socialist and was a lifelong union organizer. Where I live now the Greens are more tepid though, and mostly try to be slightly more left Democrats.
Personally I think the Green Party in the US has a hard time focusing, and if I didn't know any better I'd say they're mainly just a pet project for very out of touch rich liberal types, like professors with book deals or heirs to oil fortunes who feel guilty about it. They can't seem to decide if they're a serious electoral party or if they're a grassroots movement for environmental issues. I wish I could take them more seriously.
They also have a serious, serious problem with allowing in various "woo" things like anti-vaccine rhetoric, stuff about alternative medicines, weird proposals regarding education. They're also staunchly anti-nuclear, which is one of the absolutely goofiest party platforms you can have as supposed environmentalists. The only anti-nuclear socialists I can take half seriously are the ones in Japan, because at least with them I can understand the trepidation. Like I still don't agree with Japanese socialists on that, but I get it.