Green Domestic Policy

In domestic politics, the Green party is strongly socialist. The ideology set forth by its foremost leaders detail a powerful government and an end to property rights. Like the far left of the Great Depression, Green spokesmen advocate full government control of all economic activity in the country. Industry would be controlled by government so that full employment could be achieved, even if it meant wage control and elimination of all profit.

In other words, Green industrial policies advocate an end to producer-driven market economics and a return to a Soviet-style command economy, where goods are not produced based upon their market demand, but upon government whims and the desires of those in power. This would most likely result in a return to a steel-and-coal economy, since these are some of the most labor-intensive industries, and would provide the highest number of "jobs".

Greens also advocate a type of economic isolationism, even in domestic policy, by means of "bioregionalism". This would mean an end to water reclamation projects and mass interregional transportation of goods. Greens insist that specific regions in the country become self-sufficient, even if the local resource base is insufficient for the market it serves, Greens insist that this points to a need to vacate the region, rather than increase interregional trade.

The human results of these policies are obvious: a slowing of economic activity, an end to consumer- and producer-driven markets, a surplus of overproduced goods which cannot be purchased by an increasingly impoverished society. Regions such as the American southwest would experience mass emigrations, and the Pacific Northwest would receive a fast influx from this migration. It's no wonder that most Greens originate from the Pacific Northwest.

The possibility is immense, however, that this potential mass migration would not be permitted by Green government, in which case import-dependent regions such as California and other populous and fast-growing states would experience social chaos and mass starvation as trade restrictions created empty supermarket shelves and a string of bankruptcies.

In sum, the Green domestic agenda would result in little more than a repeat of depression-era decline as seen throughout totalitarian Europe. Like the Nazi party, a scapegoat would be sought out. Based upon their priorities, it is easy to se who the Greens would choose in place of Germany's Jews: businessmen.

The Green party has an immense loathing of productive individualists. Businessmen are the last true legacy of this type in America today. Like the Jews of depression-era Germany, they are our most wealthy citizens, and they control the motors on which our economy depends. Thus they are an appropriate target for the party that wishes to usurp that motor for their own political agenda. Most likely, Greens would institute criminal penalties for profiting from a business transaction, or forbid businessmen from entering political office. In all likelihood, business owners and CEOs would be required to register as such, and as "profiteers", they would lose many of their privelages and rights as citizens. They would be seen as little more than pieces of factory machinery, designed to run the economic motors of the country, and not protest that they are being treated as lifeless, rightless machines. And if they protest, they'll be interned.

Green Foreign Policy

Like its domestic policy, the Green foreign policy is based upon isolationist political economy. Ralph Nader, the long-time Green presidential candidate, once remarked that he admired the foreign policy proposals of right-wing isolationist Pat Buchanan. His own detailing of his potential foreign policy matches that statement well.

Greens would insist on increased social spending, and would most likely strip the military of most of its budget to finance this - even if the money dried us as America's foreign interests were taken away undefended. A Green military would be entirely withdrawn from all overseas posts, destroying our security in such economically-vital hotspots as the Middle East and Asia, where many of the resources which drive our economy originate, as well as in Europe and Latin America, our foremost trading partners.

The goal of this military isolationism would relate to the Green agenda of economic isolationism. As our security abroad became more and more dubious, the Green desire to isolate American industry and economics would intensify. Nader has made clear that he desires a return to a depression-style tariff wall around the United States, which would encourage a macro-sized version of the Green policy of bioregionalism. Necessary foreign goods that could not be produced or acquired within the United States would become scarce, and the country would become riddled with black markets in things such as fossil fuels, precious stones, and computer chips.

Like Nazi Germany, an inevitable outcome of this summary economic decline would be eventual economic imperialism. Unfortunately, the Greens in this line of thought rely upon the assumption of America's powerful finances and military. In the dark days after their policies have come into effect, America would be far too weak to withstand an assault from freer economies should we attempt a Nazi-style expansion of our "resource base".

Green National Decline

The decline of America and the end of freedom is the only long-term guarantee of any Green control of American politics. Any free country which is usurped by irrational leaders will be destroyed, as has been shown in Nazi Germany, New Deal America, or most of the modern Middle East. The parallels between the Green political agenda and that of the National Socialist Party in Germany cannot be ignored. Would that Americans more readily saw them, and would that American businessmen more quickly fought them.

American businessmen are our last great hope against the spread of Green power and the rise of a Green political victory. If businessmen ignore the threat, as German Jews did in the 1920s, they do so at their own peril. It is a life or death battle.