Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat

[Ken Burch]

543. You don't build turnout by silencing dissent.

You build turnout by actually making a positive case for people to vote FOR something.

We don't have to tell the progressive wing of this party to accept being in the back seat.

And the groups you listed in your categorization of "the base" were NEVER the ones who were demanding that we nominate candidates that gloated about being anti-liberal. They weren't the ones who were insisting that we nominate an execution freak in 1992(at a time when the murder rate was plummeting except in the states that HAD the death penalty).

Stop thinking the worst of your fellow Democrats. Few, if any of them were demanding that we be an anti-progressive party, a party that privileged defense contractors and ceo's while leaving peace activists, labor and the Rainbow out in the cold, throughout the Nineties. The country simply wasn't THAT right-wing. We never had to settle for "slightly less bad".