Perry County Green Party
Greening the Governorship

 Hello everyone,

I am running for Governor for you the planet and the Green Party in an effort to win a ballot line for them in Tennessee, it only takes 50,000 votes.  Currently the major political parties represent corporate interest over the interests of  the people and they fund political campaigns to make sure their position and policies are upheld.  We can no longer afford to let them do this.  The Gulf Disaster is an example of the world we can expect if we continue to support these corporate funded campaigns.  Greens recognize that there is a collective human intelligence, it needs to be awakened.  Our European relations use less than half the energy we do, we are not suggesting austerity, we are calling for an end to the gluttony. It does not matter what religious or non-religious beliefs one has, what matters is that we all have good relations.

It is difficult for a Green to get their ideas out and understood in a society guided by two polarized philosophies; individualism and socialism. Despite their differences, the two dominant philosophies are both human-centric and industrial. Green political thought is based on a philosophy that includes the 30 million other species our existence is interwoven with, and on which we depend for food, water and the other necessities of life. The current economy is parasitic, turning the biomass of other species into more human biomass as industrial activities propel extinctions of others at an accelerating rate. The writing is on the wall, our planet is finite, and while only a minority is seeing it, Greens have a plan to repair the damage.

We would begin with redirecting the state’s priorities away from service to extractive corporate clients to re-establishing viable, resilient and self reliant, self-governing, sustainable communities, organized by watersheds. We would proliferate facilitated Community Dialogue Projects so people could come together to get to know one another again to research and discuss what was best for their community. Communities would be helped with Community Resource Assessments to determine the talent, ideas and materials available to them for building a resilient local economy. We would pursue equipping communities with community scale technologies for food, fiber, fuel and energy as well as regional manufacturing of essential tools and equipment for them. Our five priorities will be 1. economy 2. ecology 3. health 4. security 5. education. In green philosophy these are all interconnected and are the primary concern of all living things, all communities. Communities would design their systems so that all nutrient and material loops would be closed, wasting nothing, operating within the limits of their environment and in harmony with it. Solar resources would be utilized to the max, directly or indirectly. Science would be freed from only experts to encourage innovation and invention. We would establish community banks and a state bank as a bulwark against the funny money of Wall Street. Education would be integrated into the fabric of the community teaching real skills as well as critical thinking and problem solving. We would be designing a stable decentralized system, one with plenty of redundancy for security. A centralized system is vulnerable at its center, with no center to attack a decentralized system is much more stable and secure. Its the difference between a one legged stool and a 5 legged stool.  In the weeks to come I will articulate the 5 legs of this stool for Tennessee.  If you would like to get involved in helping this campaign, please let me know.

Bless our Planet and all our Relations.

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