Blog #12 Green Democracy

Would you join the Green Party or not?  

What aspects of green values do you believe should be ideally incorporated into a "green" party?  Do these align, do you think, with the Green Party? 

Also, are the Earth First! activists justified in their actions?  

I don't think that I could ever label myself as part of the Green Party, and currently, I don't consider myself affiliated with any one party. Some parts of their platform, such as doing away with political corruption, look good on paper but would be incredibly difficult to put into practice. I like a lot of their ideas but not enough to actually join the party. 

I think that for it to be a true "green" party, all of the green values should be incorporated to the fullest extent possible. This might be unfeasible because many of the values are rather anti national government and hierarchy, but since these green values define, in essence, how to be green, I think they should be a critical component of the Green Party. 

Currently, the Green Party does incorporate many of the green values we have previously discussed in class. They are non-violent, believe in social justice, promote ecological education, and decentralization. For the most part, I think that the Green Party and green values align as well as they can since the Green Party is a part of a national, centralized, government, they will never perfectly align since the green values don't promote that type of government. Maybe in the future, as the party gains more support, it will align even closer with green values.