[Yorick]

Originally posted by Skunk: quote: Originally posted by Yorick: quote: Originally posted by Skunk: And as you can see, in the Core Values of the British Green Party, environmental issues only take TWO of their 10 main Core Value Points. They are not 'single issue' parties:

This is irrelevent. I mentioned "The Greens" which initially were an Australian single issue party, before diversifying, not the European Green Party, which I posted as being a "narrow issue party".

Furthermore your view flies in the face of opinions like this:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves
largess out of the public treasury."
-- Alexander Tyler, 18th Century Scottish historian

Which would make the single issue of "What's in it for me" the ONLY reason voters vote the way they do.

You are wrong because as usual you have presented no statistics, no history, no analogies or comparitive examples. Only a sociological opinion presented as fact. As ever you do, as always you will it seems. [/QUOTE]Check out the manifesto of the European Green Party organisation then:
http://www.europeangreens.org/info/principles.pdf

As you can see - it is NOT a narrow one issue organisation.

I'm sure that Alexander Tyler was as knowledgable on 20th Century society as you appear to think - but nonetheless, the issue of "What's in it for me" nearly always encompasses more than one issue - rarely just financial well-being as was the case in Tyler's world of 230 years ago. [/QUOTE]Need I say it again? For the third time, you made the assertion. Post stats that prove your p.o.v. or retract.