X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb889,b903033e9eb44859 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb889,public X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,e13b995bcc663f7b,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public From: Jim Bunning Subject: Go Green - Vote Nader Date: 2000/08/05 Message-ID: X-Deja-AN: 654928358 Cache-Post-Path: ns.ncd.co.jp!news.senate.gov!nntp.greenparty.org!gpusa@igc.org Approved: campaigns@@AdBusters.ORG X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.95.76.12 Organization: Green Party USA -- http://www.greenparty.org X-Original-Trace: news.senate.gov 2332272863 199.95.76.12 (6 Aug 2000 00:18:28 GMT) X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Newsgroups: japan.test,rec.arts.ascii 6 Aug 2000 00:18:28 GMT It's hard for me to believe that the next president of the United States will be George W. Bush or Al Gore. Both remind me of Hollywood movies that have been focus-grouped to death: they push all the appropriate buttons, but have zero original vision. Both stand for the same thing: corporate-driven business as usual. There must be some way outta here. Ralph Nader is no joker or thief. I think he and the Greens could give Al & George a good run for their money. At 65, Nader isn't running as fast as he used to, and the Green Party doesn't exactly have its platform figured out, but I think they have what it takes to inject a dose of radical democracy into the race. Unlike the two Tweedles, Nader is real, he stands for decency and common sense and he still commands a lot of respect in progressive and activist circles. And hidden behind the rainbow coalition of lefties, eco-feminists and crazies, the Green Party does have some great ideas. It's the only party that stands for the Tobin Tax, true cost markets, media reform and putting corporations in their place. In October, with a fired-up Nader hurling intelligent sound bites into the presidential debates, the whole game show might actually be worth watching. The alternative is the most sophomoric presidential race in American history . . . and the lowest voter turnout ever. I'm putting a GO GREEN - VOTE NADER graphic at the end of all my emails from now on. I'm betting that, between now and November, the American people will wake up to the fact that their sacred democratic experiment has now degenerated into a choice between a corporate-sponsored Republican and a corporate-sponsored Democrat. In these heady post-WTO days, a sudden, massive protest vote against Al & George is entirely possible and Nader would be the most apparent heir. With perhaps less than 25 percent of the people voting, an inspired Nader campaign could grab a surprising share of the action. And even if he does not come close to winning, at least imagine how his campaign might pull together some of the fired-up, post-WTO forces and lay the groundwork for something really visionary in 2004. 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