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Although not for the reason you think it is.

You do realize they're talking about Australia, right?

you to be really interested in the question, but anyway.

Hippies have indeed left Greens pretty much everywhere where they've become part of the system, Green Capitalism of urban liberals was a no-sell from the beginning. That doesn't mean hippies would not vote a Green candidate if and when they vote, hippies are not predictable.

last time I voted was a gay Green candidate for president or Finland, he got more that 40% against the conservative who won and no other candidate could have done better against that conservative.

have you gone in a time machine back to the 60s?

all I know about hippies is that it is some kind of twisted and sick insider joke, as no self-respecting hippie would never call itself by that name. Certainly not decent citizens and tax payers of Rainbow people, ecovillagers, bald dreadlock punk-reggae weirdoes etc. etc. etc.

I learned the expression "fucking hippies" from ecovillagers I lived with, most often in reference to differences concerning temporal realities.

"decent citizen and tax paying" culture. They've also recently bulldozed part of People's Park in Berkeley.

I currently subscribe to the narrative that when the original hippie movement almost immediately crashed and burned from overflow of energy, the warm heart, feet firmly on ground and heads far out in sky were preserved in the Rainbow meetings. And from there continued spreading and taking many forms. More mystical and mythical narratives are better to leave to camp-fire circles.

the Greens of the US or of Finland, for example

This piece, about Australia's Greens, is interesting because it points out the hazard of ignoring the slogan "All politics is local"

Here, the claim is that Greens elected to local city council positions, concentrated on abstract generic issues of no immediate local importance, instead of concentrating on local municipal issues, like potholes in the roads -- and for that reason suffered setbacks in the latest elections, losing support even from the people who generally agreed with them on big-picture issues

and with lot of variation, there tends to be general drift with political movements with common origin such as Greens, reformist social democrats etc., worth observing and discussing. Comparative method of finding meaningful generalisations.

Fully agree with 'think global, act local".