don't wanna know about evil
Meredith Kolodner has a must-read piece posted on Counterpunch's website.
Black Commentator has another interesting one on about voting "the lesser of two evils."
Honestly, I don't know what or how to feel about this. Increasingly, I'm coming to feel that casting a ballot for Nader may in fact be the only viable option for anti-war/anti-militarism voters this year, despite the hoo-hah about how important this election is. Indeed, casting a vote for Nader may be the best way to go BECAUSE this year is so important.
Not because there are no differences between candidates, or parties. There are, though on fewer and fewer issues, and with no interest really on "winning" those issues precious to the core or base voters.
The Dems have totally conceded what may be the most important issue in America politics today, if not the world - the invasion of Iraq. By standing aside for - and even backing - the hit on Howard Dean, by strong-arming Kucinich and his supporters at the drafting of the platform in Miami and in Boston a few weeks later, by selling us this "band of brothers" garbage and "reporting for duty" crap, THEY took a meaningful vote away from us. THEY took the war away, threatened us with the possibility of a Scalia Supreme Court and a few cabinet positions, and left us with the ravings of Eric Alterman.
And for that reason, perhaps the negation-power of a Nader vote, to paraphrase Jeffrey St. Clair, may be the only vote worth casting.
Lemme put it a little bit better - if they won't pay attention to the letters and the phone calls and the protests and the marches, will they pay attention to a Nader vote?
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