The Green Party is a democratic party.  It is even more

 

democratic than many of the actually titled Democratic Party

 

representatives.  The Green Party is a grass roots democratic

 

party.  Many Democrats have overused the term to claim they

 

have done grass roots work but in fact have watered down the

 

meaning.  As an Indigenous student of the east coast Iroquois

 

Confederacy whose consitution was used to create the

 

constitution of this great country, I know what real democracy

 

is.  Unfortunately the original Iroquois constitution was

 

watered down in various areas by the "misinterpreters", hence

 

forth so was democracy.

 

Democrats had their time.  Some still have it.  Some even have

 

their moments.  But if one arrives at their meetings, many times

 

it is business, many have become complacent, comforted by

 

contributions, their guidelines are corporate and not the

 

constituent.  The soul has been sold. They have lost touch with

 

the constituent and what is left of the community they have

 

sacrificed. 

 

Arrive at a Green grouping and the openess of mind is felt. 

 

Progress is felt.  The soul has not been sold.  There is not

 

temptation for the soul to be sold.  There are no corporate

 

contributions.  There are only pittances from members and

 

supporters.  From the people. 

 

At the lowest level and most closely associated with the people,

 

the city councilwoman/councilman position is one of the most

 

important representatives.  If this position is sacrificed by

 

bowing down to the values of the upper echelons of

 

government to the highest tier of the executive office then

 

the government is serving itself or the elite and that is not

 

democratic.  That is oligarchic.

 

Javier Tlaloc Enriquez

 

Post Script:  The rest of the free world knows the essentialness

 

of third parties in a democracy to have all its people

 

represented.  In the rest of the free world the Green Party is

 

another party like a Republican or a Democratic party and not

 

another third party (a term used to keep all other parties on the

 

exterior by connotating them in one lump group as third parties

 

and maintaining the two party system in the center of it all and

 

always in the number 1 and 2 positions).  There needs to be

 

a proportional representation as most democracies have.