Everyone goes on about the secret lovers of Trump who will vote for him but won't admit it. There are probably also secret anti-Trumpists who fear ostracism and worse if they admit they're voting for bidenharris. Who knows how this will play out?
This is not an endorsement of bidenharris. I'm voting for Hawkins despite the flood of vitriol here against the Green Party, not all of which is undeserved, though the snippier examples are IMO wide of the Marxmail mark. Frankly, I'm voting for Hawkins as a protest because I live in the District of Columbia, which will automatically vote in a landslide for any Democrat who has not been officially declared dead. What I would secretly like is for Trump to be defeated and Hawkins to get the five percent he needs to qualify for campaign financing next time around. Fat chance, I know, but ... . I think Hawkins is an authentic ecosocialist even though as co-founder of the Greens he shares in the blame for the Party's many errors over the years. He has also pulled off a socialist coalition of sorts behind his candidacy. How substantial is this? Compared with the goofy Jill Stein candidacy of 2016, it's IMO rock solid. Hawkins was a Teamster for decades, loading and unloading parcels--that IMO BTW FYI qualifies him as working-class even given his middle-class family background. NB--not a personal smear agains Stein, whom I admire, but that campaign had all the traditional Green weaknesses on full display. Smears have been voiced here against the Greens. "Bourgeois hippies"--Ralph Nader isn't a hippy, though he is (in sharp contrast to Hawkins) pro-capitalism--a difference that shows signifcant evolution of the Green Party, which cannot now be considered a capitalist party as M. Lause demonstrated earlier. "Never elected anyone to office unlike Socialist Algernative"--the Wikipedia entry on the Green Party lists a significant number of Greens who have held public office over the years. No disrespect to Kshama Sawant BTW FYI. I don't regard Mark Lause's prediction that this is the last hoorah for the Greens as a smear because it may very well be true, alas. From what I've seen of Hawkins so far, I hope he himself can/will continue as a socialist, but idolatry in any form is a bad business that is sure to disappoint sooner or later, so that remains to be seen. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1385): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1385 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76751875/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
