A Green Party That Will Win-1
A Green Party That Will Win-1
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By Emanuel Pastreich (epastreich@asia-institute.org)

Dr. Emmanuel Pastreich's Column "A Green Party that will win" is being published in a series of four installments, one each week. Today's post is the first installment.

Moving on and Up
1. A Green Party that will win
2. Qualifying to be a candidate for the Green Party
3. A new strategy for the Green Party
4. The Green Party as a government that does not exist
Emanuel Pastreich, President of The Asia Institute (Washington D.C., Seoul, Tokyo, Hanoi)/ former professor of Kyung Hee University


The collapse of civil society, the decay constitutional governance, and the stranglehold on the economy of multinational corporations that work, hand in hand, with the military in a push for world war has created in America an unquenchable thirst for a political alternative. As a political party possessing a national infrastructure that is capable of offering something other than the punch-and-judy show put on by the Democratic and Republican Parties connected at the waist, the Green Party has an unprecedented opportunity to play the central role in American politics.

However, before the Green Party can seize this opportunity, it must first decide what sort of a political party it wants to be. 

The Green Party could transform itself into the most powerful political movement in the United States since the anti-slavery movement of the 1850s, and do so in a short period of time, if it vows to return the United States to the citizens and to wrest away control of government from the multinational corporations and banks--and the billionaires who lurk behind them. If the Green Party stands unconditionally for constitutional rule and an economy that is focused on the long-term needs of citizens, it can build a broad coalition of the disaffected who are disgusted with the prospect of a Biden-Trump zombie apocalypse. That is to say that is not too late for the Green Party to transform itself into a force that could win the 2024 presidential election hands down, and make deeps inroads in the Congress and in state politics. Moreover, by exposing the deep rot within the media, financial institutions, and political parties, the Green Party could set off a social and political revolution that will change everything.

Such a shift cannot be achieved by magic; if there were no costs involved, people would carried out that political revolution a long time ago. No, the rise of the Green Party requires the moral bravery to face crippling problems that other politicians are afraid to mention, the ethical vision to launch an ambitious plan restore deliberative democracy to the United States by ending the privatization of governance that stretches back to the unconstitutional establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913, and the ghastly contract with global finance signed in blood with the Kennedy assassination of 1963. That means the Green Party must be a political party with a real vision, not a catchy marketing slogan. It must be a party that is willing to take on the IT and finance giants and to rip the mask off the parasitic military industrial complex that has sunk its proboscis deep into the economy.

If there is moral commitment, the financial disadvantage of the Green Party will quickly become the decisive advantage in that the Democratic and Republican Parties have lost all legitimacy because they promoted devasting foreign wars after the notorious 9/11 incident (in which they are both implicated) and then they embraced together the COVID 19 operation in 2020 that allowed multinationals to wage unlimited warfare against our citizens.

Remember that the Republican Party in its original incarnation rose to prominence quickly when the rich and powerful tried to extend slavery throughout the United States in the 1850s and it was able to win the presidency in 1860 as a result of the vacuum created by the collapse of the Whig Party (a political crisis similar to the current corruption of the Democratic Party by IT multinationals).

That is to say that if the Green Party asserts itself as a political vanguard, the only party that is not financed by corporations, the only one able to speak out on issues that others will not touch, the Green Party will not only have overwhelming moral authority, it can effectively assert that the other political parties are NOT qualified to field candidates for any election because of their active participation in state crimes.

The Japanese philosopher OgyuSorai put it this way, “There are two ways to play chess. One is to master the rules of chess so completely that one can win in any situation. The other is to make up the very rules by which chess is played.”

That second option is precisely the strategy that will bring the Green Party to prominence: demand that the rules of the entire game be changed so as to correspond with the Constitution itself—a text that defines what is and what is not government. Then, and only then, can the Green Party demand that the interests of the citizens, not the rich and powerful, are the primary responsibility of government.  

But, if the leadership of the Green Party lacks the moral courage to take such a stand, to make efforts that could cut short vacation plans, there is another alterative that they may choose. The Green Party can be a feel good about yourself, “think left, live right,” weekend meetings over café lattes identity politics party that avoids hot topics that might disturb the digestion of some party members, topics such as the reemergence of slavery, the drive for world war by multinational corporations, medical mass murder by vaccines, and the spread of deadly secret governance at the federal and state level.

But if they make that choice, it will mean that Green Party has zero chance of winning any major elections in our lifetimes, but perhaps it can help ease the consciences of educated Americans who feel a need to affirm that they are doing something, anything, as long as there is no risk to their TIAA-CREF retirement funds, as long as it does not require them to confront the lies that they are fed day and night by the media and by academic institutions.

That would be a Green Party that gives the impression something is happening when, in fact, not much is happening at all.

There is no scenario in which the Green Party slowly expands over the next twenty years. Either the Green Party makes a moral commitment to the battle against global capital and the emergence of secret governance today, or it will be regulated to the margins forever, or perhaps made illegal—as Donald Trump suggested in his recent speech of June 27 for the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a speech in which he called for the deportation of all socialists and Marxists, including American citizens.

I attended Green Party meetings in Champaign, Illinois from 2001 to 2004 and I was delighted to meet others who shared my concerns about the growing inequity in American society.

At the same time, however, I was deeply disappointed that those members avoided discussion of the false flag 9/11 operation or of the blatantly totalitarian governance of the United States under the Bush administration. The greatest threats to the United States, then and now, were considered taboo for most members of the Green Party.

Where we stand today

I declared myself as an independent candidate for president in 2020 because it was clear that the Democratic and Republican parties were so corrupt as to be little more than marketing gimmicks for the multinationals. Moreover, it was also clear that the alternative parties were incapable of fielding anyone who would address the real crisis in America at the time: the launch of a military-directed, multinational fear and intimidation campaign, better known as operation COVID-19, which was aimed at frightening and then impoverishing the population, then killing millions with so-called “vaccines.”

For me there was really no alternative but to run a real campaign for president even if it bankrupted me, even if it forced me out of the United States, even if it ended my friendship with those who could not bring themselves to abandon the sinking ship.

Sadly, the campaign of Howie Hawkins in 2020 confirmed my apprehensions about the Green Party. My disappointment had nothing to do with the personal qualities of Mr. Hawkins. The problem was that, whether because of conditions imposed by upper-middle class donors, or by classified directives issued by Homeland Security, the Green Party limited itself to addressing the topics permitted by the corporate media in a somewhat more thoughtful manner than the Democratic Party. It did not seize the initiative and it did not try to define the rules of the political game


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