By Mark A. Lause Brother Matt Hoke’s essay on “Regime Change” retains problems I pointed out when it came before the editors at The North Star, and its appearance without addressing these rather requires sharing some of the more important political points with our readers.[1] Anyone a passing familiarity with the Green Party would balk at using “regime” in any association with what it does, much less complain that “conservative bureaucratic resistance” by Machiavellian Greens is holding back what would be the headlong rush of the toiling masses towards electoral socialism. Delving as deeply as a consumer satisfaction card at McDonalds, Hoke’s critique begins with a website graphic calling for things like “gender equality,” “grassroots democracy,” and “economic justice,” which he finds so insufficiently roly proly that it makes him “nearly vomit.” From here, his gif-based “analysis” becomes even more overgeneralized, oversimplified, and ultimately overgenerous, ascribing a solidity and power to the Greens that—in all but a few places in the U.S.—bear as much resemblance to reality as the Tea Party’s views of the Bavarian Illuminati. His warnings against the “probably futile” project of “lobbying within the Greens to transform them,” for example, seems to reflects the regrettably mistaken belief that Greens are organized enough to have a lobby.
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