Maybe Ink/TOWTM is a politician, his zombie horde is his constituency. Which would make
Little Ones something like community organizers.
The US government has infinite experience working with groups like this. You identify their concerns and grievances, fix institutional problems and bias, and co-opt their leadership, with the goal of helping them assimilate. It's pretty much how the system works here, though it does add new meaning to terms like melting pot, and bringing home the pork.
And I expect that once they're reframed as a special interest group that zombies would be welcomed into the Democrat party with open arms. After all, zombies treat women, racial minorities and gays equally, and they're very much opposed to private ownership of firearms.
