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Thread ID: 12420 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2004-02-20
2004-02-20 03:43 | User Profile
"Don't Run, Don't Run, Don't Run, Don't Run..."
Whither The Nation? By Ralph Nader
[url]http://www.counterpunch.org/nader02192004.html[/url]
Much more than New Hampshire in 2000, where I received more Republican than Democratic votes, any candidacy would be directed toward Independents, Greens, third-party supporters, true progressives, and conservative and liberal Republicans, who are becoming furious with George W. Bush's policies, such as massive deficits, publicized corporate crimes, subsidies and pornography, civil liberties encroachments, sovereignty-suppressing trade agreements and outsourcing.
Since, like most Americans, I live in a one-party state and in various local rotten boroughs, it would be foolish to waste time voting. However, if I were inclined to vote, I would vote for Nader. If I lived in one of the handful of swing states, I would hold my nose and vote for Kohn-Kerry, on the theory that the devils I don't know who handle Kerry couldn't possiby be as bad as the devils I know who handle Bush.