Our Man Ralph Nader And Voting With Your Heart

Joe R. Golowka joegolowka at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 15 11:11:40 PDT 2000


From: "Brad De Long" <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
> You move the center to the left by winning the battle of ideas--not
> by electing Republican majorities and a Republican president...

That only applies when you have a leftist vs. a right-winger. What we have here now is a right-winger vs. a right-winger. Electing right-wingers like Al Gore will not shift things left. A vote for Gore is a vote for a conservative.

-- Joe R. Golowka joegolowka at earthlink.net Anarchist FAQ - http://www.infoshop.org/faq

"According to the libertarian litany, if an industry or an institution is making a profit, it is satisfying "wants" whose origins and content are deliberately disregarded. But what we want, what we are capable of wanting is relative to the forms of social organization. People "want" fast food because they have to hurry back to work, because processed supermarket food doesn't taste much better anyway, because the nuclear family (for the dwindling minority who have even that to go home to) is too small and too stressed to sustain much festivity in cooking and eating -- and so forth. It is only people who can't get what they want who resign themselves to want more of what they can get. Since we cannot be friends and lovers, we wail for more candy." - Bob Black



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