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The Green Party After the Election
Hawkins, Howie
http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4855Date Written: 2017-01-01 Publisher: Against the Current Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX21523 Until the Green Party has built a real power base of well-organized, dues-paying members and elected Green caucuses in city councils, state legislatures and the U.S. House, it will not be taken seriously in a presidential run by most media and most voters Abstract: - Excerpt: Greens should be friendly with grassroots Democrats in the Sanders/Warren wing as they quixotically try (again) to replace corporate Democrats with progressive Democrats. Greens should work with them in the fightback against Trumpist scapegoating and oppression of immigrants, minorities and women, expansion of the security and surveillance state, imperial wars, climate madness, cuts to public health care and schools, union-busting and on many other fronts. But the real power structure of the Democratic Party - the corporate donors and their political representatives, led now by the corporate neoliberal Chuck Schumer - will do what corporate Democrats always do with progressive Democratic personalities: use them as bait to lure progressives into a supporting corporate Democrats as the lesser evil. Subject Headings |