[Marxism] Green Party US on the edge?

[Mark Lause]

Craig,

I am an active Green and remain such.  The implication that I'm one of
those carping critics of the GPUS speculating lustfully about its
demise is simply wrong..

Also wrong is your misunderstanding of my statement that the GPUS
"equates" parties for representation with some idea that I'm saying
the state parties are represented equally.

How you see this as something to do with whether a party is officially
registered or not within the state is not onty wrong but
incomprehensibly wrong.

The GPUS' system of representation "equates" state parties to their
standing within the general electoral college system.  This is the way
the major parties work and the GPUS (like many of its predecessors)
opts to go down that route as well.  The problem is that the GPUS has
ENGAGED MEMBERSHIP in the thousands in some states and next to nothing
in other states.

Specifically, California and New York have large organizations.  Ohio,
where I am, is a rather contented little group with a four-digit claim
of membership based on who's signed up at the website.  But meetings
are tiny and almost all the important decisions statewide are made by
people who'd fit into a freight elevator.  And let's not get into
Kentucky and some of the states to our south.  Having all of these
states get to represent what their states have in the electoral
college (or some variation on population) is innately undemocratic.

More than this, that representation problem within the GPUS is
characteristic of a lot of historic third party movements and has been
precisely what has led to the downfall of a number of them.  Anyone
with any realization of this is rather duty bound to say so, right?

And for the good and welfare of the party itself, no?

ML