The EU Elections
Why the Greens are failing
For 3 reasons:
1. They are not telling the truth for the sake of telling the truth. Last week a world expert suggested that we have a 40% chance of losing European civilisation in the 2030s because of the AMOC collapse. There needs to be a completely different tact - the situation cries out for raw emotion and real realism. No more being nice.
2. Greens are for the status quo. Whatever they say you can feel it. They are born out of the system (i.e., university educated). Instead, they need to name the beast - capitalism - which is going to destroy itself and take us down with it. They need to say over their dead bodies will ordinary people pay for the emergency transition - it is the rich and powerful who got us into this total mess in the first place and they should pay. And they should sound like they actually fucking mean it.
3. They should stop being a political party and become a social movement that stands in elections - using assemblies to choose policies and candidates including working class and people of colour communities - so they come from the people and look like they come from the people.
Never ever should they ever go into alliance with social democrats and the other zombie carbon legacy parties. And never never should they be “responsible” and vote for budget cuts for their communities.
Of course this is not going to happen - the vast majority of Greens still want to have their cake and eat it. Maybe that was true in 2000, just possibly in 2010, not a chance in hell in 2024. It's 1.6C - we will be over 2C in a decade, all hell is going to break loose, and the neoliberal regimes will collapse. In a strange way the Greens are the biggest climate deniers.
What we need is a whole new political system and revolutionaries to create it, who enjoy telling the truth and acting as if it's real because at this point in history they find expediency existentially repulsive (i.e. full of shit).
I know at least a few Greens out there know all this - so...?
theguardian.com/world/articl…