The National Green Party holds its annual meeting in Durham this week. Featured speaker: Cynthia McKinney. Brent McMillan, executive director of the party, tells the Herald-Sun he sees opportunity for his party in light of “disillusion” with President Obama.
McMillan thinks the party can benefit from what he called increasing disappointment with President Obama.
“I think there’s disillusion among many people with what he’s actually done and what they thought he was going to do,” he said, specifically pointing to escalation of the war in Afghanistan and failure to push for more substantive health-care reform.
Party officials also hope holding the meeting in the South will give the Greens traction in a place that has not always been welcoming to them.
“It’s hard in North Carolina to have independent parties,” said El-Amin. “North Carolina makes it very difficult to be registered here. But we really believe we are a growing movement, even here in the South.”
I’ll take his word for it that some on the Left are disillusioned. Defenders of freedom and free markets are alarmed about the long-term negative impact of the administration’s astronomical spending, borrowing, and intervention into the economy. Business leaders, for example, are unlikely to create jobs in an environment that is unfriendly to them. Unfortunately, high unemployment is likely to stay with us unless the Obama administration reverses course.
