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murphyj87

(649 posts)
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 08:52 AM Aug 2012

Did you know that the Green Party USA has a single payer plank in their platform?

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Single Payer

http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2012/social-justice.php#SinglePayer

The whole thing

http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2012/

Having read it, basically, the platform of the US Green Party is to pretty much to Canadianize the US in virtually every way. The US Green Party seems to make Bernie Sanders into a centrist.

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Did you know that the Green Party USA has a single payer plank in their platform? (Original Post) murphyj87 Aug 2012 OP
I wish they had more clout............ kooljerk666 Aug 2012 #1
along with many other seeds of knowledge that can pull the USA out of it's troubles... nightscanner59 Aug 2012 #2
 

kooljerk666

(776 posts)
1. I wish they had more clout............
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 08:56 AM
Aug 2012

But when the GOP framents Liberals may be able to coalesce into a formidable force.

I left the greens, in PA w/ closed primaries, there was never anyone to vote for.

nightscanner59

(802 posts)
2. along with many other seeds of knowledge that can pull the USA out of it's troubles...
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 09:46 PM
Aug 2012

We can only hope happens before time's up. We are at the tipping point of worldwide ecological disaster. Mother nature will soon loudly punctuate the need for reforms. It's just not "time..." yet. There will be forces coming that will turn off the whole damn country to the messages of Faux and others regardless how dedicated they may seem to it now.
2016, or 2020, the message of the Green party may just resonate like never before.

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