But downward mobility is hardly viewed as a virtue by the middle-class electorate. The potential for political expediency is likely to test the resiliency of the ranks as the activists move to muscle into the political arena. The U.S. Green movement was founded in Minneapolis' sister city of St. Paul in 1984. The Green Congress followed, in which elected delegates forged policy and strategy for the coming year. About 250 Greens attended the Congress.
Democracy is no tidy affair.
The Greens seem nearly always thick in procedural stuff. It's all words and punctuation and process. We want to implement our values now, to live them now, not later. The Green process of consensus-building is the lifeblood of the movement. Without the dazzling diversity of viewpoints coupled with vigorous strains of anarchic yearning, the movement long ago would have flashed into meltdown rather than fusion.