The Cool Green Party Platform

I am a really big Wendell Berry fan. I am delivering a paper at the Fordham Graduate English Conference in October on “Wendell Berry’s Poetic Against Industrial Agriculture.”

My political views on my Facebook, instead of the usual Conservative, Liberal, Moderate variety, are: Local Economies, Agrarianism, Micro-capitalism, Post-Colonialism, Pacifism, and Fair Trade.

I have found it hard to label myself a particular persuasion. As I read from the Anabaptist tradition I found myself drastically changing my political outlook and the reason I was political. Most people are political for their advantage…that’s why so many demographic categories swing one way or the other, because one candidate will help them reach their goals more than the other one.

I no longer see my vote as an endorsement of a candidate. It’s a contract. In a political environment that doesn’t include Jesus, choosing a candidate or platform is always the lesser of two evils scenario.

I am not endorsing the Green Party here, for I say along with Shane Claiborne: “I want to be an adviser to every politico that asks, and an endorser of no one but Jesus.” But I will say this, the Green Party Platform is cool. Here are the 10 Key Values of the Green Party: