You can add the German and the Irish greens there too. Basically every single Green Party that has got more than 5% of the vote has shifted to the centre or centre right.
I agree that Greens always slide right over time even when they start off radical but as I wrote in another comment: couldn’t the argument be made that voting for Greens is akin to the John Oliver->Breadtube->Anarchism/Marxism pipeline? Like Green gets the 5% and more exposure, is fucked out of the federal funding and all the fervent Green voting libs can more easily get radicalised into supporting and doing activism for PSL? Just spitballing here, don't know maybe it’s a dumb train of thought…
couldn’t the argument be made that voting for Greens is akin to the John Oliver->Breadtube->Anarchism/Marxism pipeline?
No. As I have already tried to explain, the result has been exactly the opposite in more favourable situations. The Greens give the illusion that you're breaking out of the politics of the ruling class and thus block the pipeline.
Like Green gets the 5% and more exposure, is fucked out of the federal funding
Why do you think you're going to get fucked out of federal funding? The amount is a pittance in the grand scheme of things and it's going to a party that does not challenge the status quo.
You can add the German and the Irish greens there too. Basically every single Green Party that has got more than 5% of the vote has shifted to the centre or centre right.
I agree that Greens always slide right over time even when they start off radical but as I wrote in another comment: couldn’t the argument be made that voting for Greens is akin to the John Oliver->Breadtube->Anarchism/Marxism pipeline? Like Green gets the 5% and more exposure, is fucked out of the federal funding and all the fervent Green voting libs can more easily get radicalised into supporting and doing activism for PSL? Just spitballing here, don't know maybe it’s a dumb train of thought…
No. As I have already tried to explain, the result has been exactly the opposite in more favourable situations. The Greens give the illusion that you're breaking out of the politics of the ruling class and thus block the pipeline.
Why do you think you're going to get fucked out of federal funding? The amount is a pittance in the grand scheme of things and it's going to a party that does not challenge the status quo.