Greens to liberals: drop dead! (Comment).(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, July, 2002 by Meyerson, Harold
ASK ANY LIBERAL TO IDENTIFY the force in American politics most intent on destroying progressive prospects and causes and you're sure to hear that it's the Bush administration or the Republican right or some such reactionary power. Let me gently suggest, however, that a very different force has wormed its way onto this list, and may indeed be right at the top: the Green Party.
There's something so very pure about the Greens' destructiveness. The Republican right, after all, isn't committed to stamping out liberalism purely as an end in itself; it is also a means to advance its ...
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