[Marxism] Re Fwd: An Analysis of Green Party Primary Results

[Alex Briscoe]

No, I really do support McKinney.

However, the Black workers I know through work haven't
heard of her.  Black activists, okay, but what percent
of the population are they?

Further, what happens if Obomber gets the nod? 
There's going to be tremendous pressure on McK to
withdraw or to soft pedal her campaign.  McK is still
a left liberal and this is her first time in such a
situation.

McK is known by one to five percent of the population.
 Facts are stubborn things.  It is also a fact that
starting in June, we know that the corp press, the
NGOs et al are going to blitz attack any serious Green
Prez challenge.  To withstand that assault we need a
cand that is known by 90%+ of the population and is
unreasonable enough to withstand that attack.  Nader
fits both criterion.  McKinney will be ignored because
she doesn't fit the first criterion and we don't know
if she'll meet the second criterion.

That's why I'm supporting Nader/McKinney this time
around.

Yours,

Alex Briscoe
Illinois Green Party



> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:16:37 -0800 (PST)
> From: Alex Briscoe <obeynow20001 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: An Analysis of Green Party
Primary Results

> --- Alex Briscoe <obeynow20001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I do support Cynthia McKinney as a national

Hmmm... Damning with faint praise, or something like
that?

> candidate.  However, in 2008, given Nader's greater
> and McKinney's lower level of name recognition, I
> feel that the best possible outcome for the Green
> Party, the movements and the candidates would be for
> Ralph Nader to run as the Green Party US

Now, this is exactly the problem, and a total
straw-man argument. Both
have "name recognition," Cynthia McKinney even more so
in the African
American community. It is more probable that Dader
enjoys more support in
the largely white, progressive, environmentalist
milieu that is the Green
Party backbone, but that is another matter, and is
more related to
palatability than name recognition. If the greens want
to remain locked in
their box, they will allow that criterion to reign. If
they want to build
a broader base and more relevant base, within
communities of color, they
will reflect a bit... If their strategy is guided by a
static and
superficial view of electoral demographics, they will
choose Nader. If
they are genuinely concerned about building an
independent political
movement, they will back McKinney. I, for one, won't
vote Green, this time
around, if they choose Nader.


> Presidential
> candidate and Cynthia McKinney to run as the Green
> Party Vice-Presidential candidate.  Then, in 2012,
> with greater name recognition, Cynthia McKinney
> would
> be positioned nationally to run as the Green Party
> U.S. Presidential candidate.



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