Dr Butch Ware Discusses Vanguard Politics, Real Solutions on Inner City Left
In this candid conversation with Inner City Left, Green Party candidate Dr. Butch Ware lays out a clear theory of change: a revolutionary party channels people from issue-by-issue mobilization into durable organization and power.
He connects California’s 187,000 nightly unhoused residents to an extractive housing market and a “poverty industrial complex,” arguing for a tripartite fix: single-payer healthcare (including mental health & addiction care), state-held at-cost housing with rent control, and targeted UBI.
Dr Ware also discusses transforming the U.S. Greens, armed self-defense in oppressed communities and organizing for Palestinian liberation amid captured media narratives.
If we change California, we can change the country, by building institutions that outlast the news cycle.
“Socialists don’t win by converting everyone—they win by delivering material solutions to ordinary people’s problems.”
🗳️ Why This Matters
California’s crisis isn’t a matter of optics, it’s a systems failure.
Dr. Ware’s case is that protest without institutions leaves power untouched; his plan turns moral outrage into material change. It also treats narrative as infrastructure: organize to set the story, not just react to it.
With a top-two primary, even 15–20% in June 2026 can force a one-on-one and make California a lever for national transformation, if we organize.
💚 Get Involved
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