In the latest Montana Green Party newsletter, party secretary Paul Stephens makes the Greens sound as far from American liberalism as, say, the right wing of the Republican Party:

"American Liberalism is best exemplified by such programs as the New Deal, the Great Society, and such figures as the Kennedy's, Adlai Stevenson, Lyndon Johnson (a strange blend of Southern populism with social democracy), and Bill Clinton, et. al. Yet, all of these, you will notice, are militarists and Cold Warriors extraordinary, and not very attractive people in their private lives. None of them was particularly interested in the environment, or even in egalitarianism or 'grass roots democracy' as such. And all were viciously partisan, masters of Realpolitik in all its forms. Now, we call them 'Neo-liberals,' 'corporate Democrats' or 'corporate liberals' for obvious reasons. ... My view has nearly always been that this 'tendency' (corporate liberalism) is wrong or ill-fated in nearly all respects, just as Soviet Communism was, and for many of the same reasons. You can't force people to be free and prosperous. You can't help people by killing them. Government by a privileged, professional class is not good for the rest of us. It seems obvious enough to us now, but for those who came from, or still maintain contacts with the Liberal Establishment, it is a lesson we simply can't seem to communicate to our erstwhile liberal associates."