Cynthia Ann McKinney is a lifelong Democrat and long time member of the House of Representatives. She is running for President as the Green party candidate. In fact, she is running in Florida as the candidate for the Green party, the Mountain party, the Pacific Green party and the Wisconsin Green party. Her campaign website can be found here. Fortunately, the Green party has a very detailed platform and even more fortunately, they have an issues comparison chart comparing them to the Democrats and Republicans. The chart can be viewed here. Basically, the Greens are against pretty much every war the U.S. has been involved in in the past 20 years, they want to reduce our military, they oppose Israel's right to self defense, they support unrestricted abortions and nationalized health care and are opposed to the death penalty. In addition, they support carbon and greenhouse gas reductions (policies similar to those being instituted in Europe) which would barely make a dent in reducing greenhouse gasses and would certainly make a dent in our economic success. They support giving unions more power, they want to restrict free trade, they are opposed to the war on drugs, they want to investigate the 2000 Florida election, they want more campaign finance reform and they support restricting the use of GMOs or genetically modified organisms (pretty much all the food we eat in the U.S.). They seem to be opposed to all deregulation efforts which simply translates into bigger government and they are apparently for decriminalization of marijuana. Finally, they are opposed to the defense of marriage act and the candidates have included into the platform reparations for African Americans and full employment (a government guaranteed job to all).
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