Green Party
...tates that Grassroots democracy is important to instill Green initiatives. By increasing the publics’ political participation, politicians may be liable to the people they serve. Making the public involved in decision making by establishing a direct democracy so that communities mat address grievances and issues they are concerned with. It is the hope that communities will share views to make a “prosperous, just and free society” through the avenue of trying to make the best decisions through the sharing of information. The Greens contend that because the owners of pension funds, public airwaves, public lands, and savings accounts are separated from having any power over their assets, which is amassed by a small number of wealthy people, the American system of democracy is damaged by “the often-converging power of Big Business (and) Big Government”. The Green Party views the United States as a place of unequal opportunities and social injustices. It wishes to make community-based programs aimed to distribute resources equally, and decentralize government. By eliminating biased based on gender, race, disability, age, and relying on a philosophy of supplying aid from the “bottom up”, not ”top down”, known as “supply-side economics” plans supported by Republicans like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 1980’s, the Green Party of the United States sees improvements in public transportation, healthcare for both children and adults, universal childcare, and publicly funded educational programs as helping to build stronger communities and put more power into the hands of everyone, regardless of economic status. Environmental issues and the value of “Ecological wisdom” is the main power behind the Green movement. Knowing that one is part of the ecosystem and not above it is “Ecological Wisdom”. When humans pursue short-term goals like profit, they can cause irreparable damage to their environment, and elected officials should be working to build a sustainable society, instead of catering to the interest of corporate conglomerates who extract natural resources at what is many times a great cost to the surrounding ecosystem. The group would like for one day to stop using gasoline and switch to either renewable or cleaner burning resources, the party calls it “transition energy strategies”. The Green environment plan addresses the problem of imperfect nuclear waste disposal sites, suggests that states develop energy policies that fine or tax the causes of energy “waste” and fund research for “alternative and sustainable” sources of power, and states implementing a policy of “true-cost pricing”, a system which assesses the cost of damage to surrounding ecosystem to produce energy, to make a more realistic assessment of sustainable energy choices. If the current energy crisis is not decisively resolved, Greens fear the situation will surpass a point where the condition is redeemable, making political and economic concerns almost seem less threatening in the face of living, or not living, in an intolerable environment. The Green Party believes in peacetime that the $300 billion defense budget must be cut to increase funding to social programs. Also that foreign policy should shift to negotiating within the boarders of human rights and civil liberties instead of economic or violent coercion. This attitude is present in the effort to end the prolonged economic exploitation of Cuba on the part of the Green Party, who view unfair practices of economic exploitation as a violation of human rights. In addition, the Nation Green Party Platform declares nuclear disarmament accompanied by a treaty for an international sanction against nuclear weapons would be in the United States’ best interest. The Green Party views community-based economics and economic justice in the terms of working to institute “economic and workplace democracy,” where workers can in some cases democratically elect managers and have a serious voice in what is done at their place of employment, and the idea that everyone is entitled to a living wage job, housing, healthcare, and education. The United States’ Green Party believes that their political culture is patriarchal and biased towards women when it comes to politics and economics. The enlightened citizens must work to remove these gender biases, that on hinder collaboration and success between men and women in both public and private atmospheres. Trough “educational diversity”, not absolutely endorsing any belief system above all others, and various programs aimed at encouraging coopera...