Greens voters total wankers, apparently

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Via The Australian:

About 70 per cent of Greens voters in inner Melbourne are rich, dislike unions and think suburban people are backwards, ­racist and bigoted, Labor has concluded based on its own research.

A six-month survey of Melbourne Greens voters has encouraged the Victorian Labor Party to give up on campaigning to most of them, arguing they do not share Labor values and are closer to the Liberals.

Labor has dubbed them “Teal Greens”, with teal being a colour blend of green and blue. The party has decided to target the 30 per cent “Red Greens” in Melbourne’s inner city who are typically university students or Millennials starting their careers.

“Red Greens” are usually renters who are more likely to come from Labor families, while “Teal Greens” own expensive inner-city homes and have parents who vote Liberal.

The qualitative research surveyed more than 50 Greens voters in inner suburbs such as Fitzroy, Brunswick and Clifton Hill, from January to June this year.

A sample of 50 hardly stacks up but it’s right in my experience, given it was not so long ago that I was one of them. To be honest, I don’t see much difference between them and Labor.

My change of heart has arrived as it has become increasingly obvious that working classes and youth are being persecuted by the open borders policies of these folk. Readers often mistake me now for an apparatchik Lefty but I’m not. I am still a blood-sucking capitalist with strong liberal beliefs. However, I recognise that without a genuine Left that addresses class war there will be nothing to stop capital from destroying my fellow man and hence liberal capitalism itself.

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There but for the grace of God go my kids.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.