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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader - "Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump's Tyranny" [View all]Cirsium
(3,372 posts)I am not a Nader fan. I have never advocated for third party voting. Perhaps you need to read more carefully. Meanwhile, you are just repeating arguments that have already been more than adequately challenged and discredited.
Can you not see how convoluted your reasoning is? Democrats who voted for Bush don't count because they were "Dixiecrats" who were too lazy to change their registration, Nader duped other Democrats somehow who were not "Dixiecrats," Nader said there was no difference between the two parties (although he actually never did say that), which then made it close enough so that Jeb and the Supreme Court could steal it. Whew!
Clinton won Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Hampshire and Florida in 1996. 4 years later, Gore lost all of them. That is not because of Nader.
I think it is the Nader attackers who are desperate. They know that Nader's contention that the Democrats are too much under the influence of big money is true, true enough that it creates a vulnerability for the party. Instead of whining about Nader for the last 25 years, how about we eliminate that vulnerability?