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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader - "Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump's Tyranny" [View all]ClimateChangeisReal
(91 posts)that they got duped by Nader's big lie that there were no differences between Al Gore and W. Still think there are no differences between Al Gore and W? Now for a lesson on Florida politics. Your pointing to supposed dems who voted for W. The reality is, those votes came from northern Florida where many of the old racist dixiecrats lived who never got around to changing their voter registrations to repugs. In addition, there have been numerous post election studies done that show that the overwhelming number of the 97,000 Nader votes would've gone to Al Gore. One of them has been posted by another poster in this thread. Let's also not forget the more than 50,000 legally registered African-American dem voters that Jeb/Harris wrongly purged from Florida's voting roles on top of the several hundred thousand mostly democratic votes that the Rehnquist 5 stopped from being counted.
Nader's campaign was dishonest because it was based on a big lie. Nader really isn't the progressive that his apologists claim he is. For the record, Nader is an out of control egomaniac who took $5 million from the repugs to pay for his tv ad campaign that he ran in Florida spewing his big lie and his 2000 campaign financial disclosure forms shows that he invests in the big companies that he publicly claims to hate. Nader was a willing accessory to the killing of democracy in Florida in 2000 I guess the truth is too much for Nader apologists.