… to draw attention to my opinions on my ‘About Me‘ page.
My primary concern is that the world becomes a more Just, Equitable and Sustainable place. The best way to do this, I feel, is through the political process, and in particular through the work of Green parties.
My concern in politics is that we achieve what we set out to do, whether that be short term goals like contesting elections, mid term goals like drawing up election strategy, or long-term goals like drawing up and implementing policy. We should try not to get bogged down in internal disputes and take level-headed, fair and non-partisan approaches to any problems we meet. Also, we should avoid pissing people off (unneccesarily).
Diplomacy to me, is acting to solve disputes, with restraint, and without flying off the handle. Often times, the political disputes I’ve seen have tended to be on arcane internal matters (because the policy matters are less contentious when we generally share a common philosophical basis). A lot of energy, therefore, often goes into disputes, instead of into more constructive pursuits like, say, winning elections. Hence, I aspire to be Green and Diplomatic (with the ‘(a)’ signifying that I don’t want to be the only one, and the ‘?’ signifying, that it’s really up to other people to make that judgement).