Reply #18: Okay, please explain to me why the "blah blah blah.... [View All]

[Senior citizen]

parties are the same" ISN'T bullshit.

Neither of them wants a recount.

Both of them are pro-war.

Neither of them want to make corporations more responsible.

Both parties favor NAFTA, GATT, etc.

The pukes act like fascists.

The Dems act like kinder, gentler fascists.

In opposing globalization, corporate money-bought legislation, and by offering himself and his life's work as an alternative to the corrupt corporate party system, Nader WAS trying to strengthen the progressive/liberal movement. That's why the Democrats saw him as such a threat. He offered a real alternative to politics as usual and the status quo. And while the pukes didn't see him as a real threat, and in fact, felt that his candidacy might be useful to their election fraud, the Democrats DID see him as a major threat, and did everything possible to keep him off the ballot.

Many of the people who don't admire and respect Nader, think he was wrong to run at all.

Well, suppose that in your city or town there were some problems and you wrote letters to the papers, talked to civic groups, and went to your councilmembers with solutions to those problems, but nothing was done. Suppose that you decided that the best way to get those problems solved, or at least to get people to pay more attention to your solutions to those problems, was for you to run for office. And now just suppose that the people already in office, or backed by the major local parties, decided that since they had no real response to your position, they would just try to keep you off the ballot. How would you feel? This used to be America. This used to be a democracy where every citizen was free to run for office if they qualified, and the way to oppose them was to appeal to the voters, not to keep them off the ballot. Some of us old fogies remember those days.