no apologies { Never gonna happen.
I will never apologize for voting for Nader in 2000, which was voting my conscious. So I think everyone will just have to get over it...or go cry in a corner.
But on a more serious note, at this point, continuing to bash 'Naderish Voters' will accomplish nothing except alienate more liberals. Is this not (still for now) a free country and open society? Is not the electorate supposed to be allowed to choose their own candidates?
P.S. Ouch, saying Green Party members work for the Republicans, that's low.
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I too voted for Nader in 2000, and I too have no reason to apologize.
Then again, we live in Minnesota, which was going for Gore no matter what. I might have given a closer thought if I were a Florida voter, but here, I felt just fine. There is nothing wrong with tactical voting. It is my vote to do with as I think proper.
The two-party-winner-takes-all American system of elections is just stupid. We need preferential voting and proportional representation. If I can get away with playing games and offering a 'fuck you' to the two-wings-of-the-bank-party system and still end up having the more progressive electable candidate win, I'll do it. I don't owe any party a thing. Parties are tools, nothing more.
My opinion is that the Green party is often (but certainly not always) much closer to my views. If I can pressure the Democratic party to stay a little more liberal and not water down what is the correct thing to do, then I'll do so.
Wow! That was quick. I was writing a comment and am almost too late.
The logic with the-Nader-voters-lost-Gore's-presidency is flawed. I wrote a comment like 8 posts ago.
Seriously, Kucinich '08! He's gettin' my money!
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