What happens when a bunch of self-righteous fools in sandals form a political party? You get the Greens
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How I despise Ralph Nader (he did some good thinks once, but that was a long time ago) and his poor excuse for a political party. The Green Party is an arrogant gang of spoilers, the whole purpose of the party is to ruin the Democrats. I'm not sure if the Nader get this or not (or if he's too in love with himself to care), but the Democrats are the only engine of political change in this country. By weakening the Democrats the Greens only succeed in strengthening the Republicans. If the Greens were really serious about politcal change they would work inside the Democratic Party, lobbying for liberal legislation and creating challenges in the Primaries. At this point your average Green party Nader-worshipper will claim there is no difference between the two parties and say one of their reddi-whipped witty phrases ("Its the DemRep party" or "The Evil of two lessers"). However, the Left is very wrong in this analysis. There is a huge difference between the two parties (or at least a difference that's big enough to matter). Under Clinton we saw the first rise in real wages in a generation, the lowest poverty in decades and lowest black and hispanic unemployment rates in history! That the greens would scoff at such achievements and try to destroy the party, the men and the policies that helpe create them only show that the Greens are more concerned with maintaining their impotent righteous indignation than with actually improving the the lives of the downtrodden.