After watching just briefly the vp presidential debate and also ralph naders running mate.. The biggest contrast I see is not necessarily in that of policy and would they would be able to put in action, but that of leadership and a perceived ability to hold strong and fast when for 4 years you'll have the highest pressure job.. Not only for personal decisions, but also tactful and political. Holding a hard line and enforcing or pushing environmental issues is *very* important and at the same time these people who want to make change must accept one thing first and foremost.. Politics isn't built upon innovation in the US, but by managerial like decisions where popularity and peeking order is still king. Until someone who is about change can prove and show a track record of success there isn't going to be a snowballs chance of them winning the presidential election.. (No mater how great their funding or policy isn.)
The green parties 20 year plan is what we should be looking at. Today we have a solid foundation which we should take advantage of.. slowly build stronger and also create realistic expectations for the results we as the green party will and can achieve. Focusing on local and state issues more than federal is the best start. Create a campaign based on success and not just about policy change.
The presidential and political influences start from the ground up.. The people. the businesses.. the morally conscious.. This is the start..
1) Win your friends and family
2) Win a race to be mayor and turn your city into a shining green example
3) Win a congressional/senate seat and win between doing the right
thing and also understand you are on enemy foreign territory playing by
their rules
4) Win a governor election
Independent nobodies regardless of how intelligent there are realistic face a much greater challenge than something trying to make a lateral job change. That's really what this is about.. the people voting to hire the next commander in chief.. Do you put the rookie with great ideas in charge or the manager who has been leading a branch of the company of one degree of success or another for the past 20 years. Open your eyes and face not only environmental issues, but political change ones as well. Radical change would only bring fear and uncertainty to unproven and sometimes only theoretical data.
Turn the ship one degree at a time...
