Reply #62: That's only your opinion [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

Economic conditions are worse than at any time since the Great Depression.

Half the population doesn't even vote anymore. Not all of them are ignorant or lazy. There are some intelligent people of my acquaintance who refuse to vote because they're heartbroken liberals. They know that voting third party is useless, they hate the Republicans, but they are desperately disappointed in the Democrats. They feel that there is no point in voting when the Democrat in the race is pro-corporation, pro-war, and pro-welfare reform, just like the Republican. I've had a lot of arguments about this subject in the past, including before the 2000 election.

Nader's candidacy should have been a wake-up call. But instead conservaitve Democrats acted like the wronged party in an adulterous relationship. Instead of asking, "What's wrong with our relationship that my partner wasn't able to withstand temptation," it's easy to call the outside lover the devil's own spawn and be done with it.

See my post #46 and try to tell me that voters would reject someone who offered real, easily explainable solutions for the pressing economic and social problems that I list. I've raised this challenge many times over the past two years, and no conservative Democrat has ever responded.