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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Catfish who wrote (119657)	12/26/2000 10:35:32 PM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<It is communism with a different name. Their platform will not influence the Republicans, but there are indications that they can influence the Democrats. In his campaign, Gore started leaning even further left due to the threat of Nader. < Well, I'd call it some sort of utopian socialism rather than communism. But, in either case its totally whacko. It's important to remember that even the minimal popular support that the Greens did get was based more on sympathy with their environmental concerns and their concerns that mega-corporations were wielding an unbalanced amount of power over people's lives with little or no counter balance, than it was a statement about what sort of economic system we should have. While I don't agree with much of anything in the Green platform or with what most of their core supporters believe, I do think that their concerns about long term environmental problems and unbounded corporate power are not without merit. People on the far right are paranoid about the power of government, people on the far left are paranoid about the power of corporations. I'm not particularly paranoid about either. But, if I had to chose I'd be more paranoid about very large corporations. They are better at keeping secrets than the gov't is(BY FAR) and they have been structured so that they aren't really accountable to anyone except the people who run them(anyone on SI probably understands full well how little accountability to shareholders management's really have or take).