What happens when people vote for Nader?I love sites like this. Why? Because they don't really _stand_ for anything beyond "Vote the Party Line."
http://www.ralphdontrun.net/
I was listening to the Tavis Smiley interview with Nader, and what interested me was the commentary on issues where the Democrats have simply failed us. Nader mentioned the dergulation of the credit industry, and the rise of predatory lending practices. Good issue, and one which the Democrats should've been all over like white on rice.
So why aren't we seeing websites devoted towards urging the Democrats to take up these issues? There are a few out there: places like AlterNet.org, for example. But when people shove this "ralph don't run" nonsense under my nose, I have to ask: what are you doing to get the Democrats to earn my vote? Are you trying to make the Democrats a better party? Or are you just flacking for whoever they put up to run?
That's what amuses me about sites like the above. They adopt this pose of being wised-up and pragmatic, but they'e utterly value-free. They stand for _nothing_ beyond making sure the winner has the proper brand-name on his back. And they wind up encouraging even greater losses of the country. Look at the tendency of the logic. We have to vote for someone who's "electable," which means we can't nominate anyone who's going to be terribly radical. If the candidate sold us out in the past, well, he _had_ to do it, or lose re-election. If his policies and political platform isn't terribly liberal, then that demonstrates his "electability."
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