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Hawkins, who has been active in alternative politics for many years, says the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class and the Green Party, as imperfect as it is, is the only possible vehicle for labor. “The Democratic Party ideology is the ideology of the professional class,” he says. “Meritocratic competition. Do well in school, get well-rewarded.”
They don’t stand all that strongly for people who work a job to earn a wage. “The biggest threat to the Democrats isn’t losing votes to the Greens,” Hawkins says. “Working class whites say, well, the Democrats don’t have all that much for us. And Trump sounds like he’s mad at the system. So they throw a protest vote to him.” And the Dems should also be worried about “the African-American, Latino, Asian working class. Barack Obama got them out twice, but he didn’t do a lot for them, and he’s not on the ticket this time.”
full: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/what-if-the-green-party-stopped-being-kooky-and-started-getting-real-214149
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