When U.S. Greens talk about creating a united national organization, it is vital to point out which Greens and what exactly it is they're trying to do. Weave together a social-political nervous system capable of communicating the ideas and agenda to the public at large. Many environmental, social justice and other progressive advocates are doing fine work on pieces of the puzzle.
Greens hope to show how the pieces fit together, out of the puzzle assemble the big picture.
To that end Greens have spent a lot of time crafting broad-reaching programs, working in coalitions and attempting to create organizations that reflect diverse interests. But when you're trying to build a vehicle carrying so much, it is easy to drive into any number of pitfalls, and Greens in the U.S. seem to have found them all. Efforts to gather large numbers of people with varying proclivities and priorities have generated centrifugal forces splaying splinter groups across the landscape. Groups have bogged in their own complexity, submerging under details of process and structure and seeming never to break surface. Sometimes arguments go on for so long people forget what started them in the first place.