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In reply to the discussion: how would a Clinton presidency look right now? [View all]shanny
(6,709 posts)and, in what I view as a spectacularly lazy, wrong-headed and self-defeating fashion blamed Nader for that loss, not vote suppression a la Katherine Harris, not the afore-mentioned 200,000 Democrats, not the butterfly ballot or the lack of an accurate count, and not the Supremes. I view the blame heaped on Stein to be similarly off base.
It was like the Titanic: so many separate things went wrong. If any one had been otherwise the result would be too.
As an old leftie I get REALLY tired of what I regard as hippie-punching. Nader has worked for the public good for longer than I've known him, a period that extends back to my college days and PIRG. I voted for him in 2000--a protest vote obviously, and one that had zero impact, as did all of my votes in blood red Wyoming.
Democrats--liberal or progressive--need to focus on what is actually costing us elections--voter suppression, election fraud including unsecured systems, gerrymandering, (the f@cking electoral college--see above) etc etc etc. Address those issues, and the elections won't be close enough to steal.