pollit and Nader

[John Madziarczyk]

I'd like to jump in here on the side of Nader. 
I haven't had any contact with any PIRGs but I do know
that in a little flier that the Monthly Review sent me
asking for donations they featured quotes from Nader
saying that working within the system isn't good
enough anymore because things have gotten so bad and
that now structural change is necessary. It follows
with an explanation by Nader pinning his willingness
to work within the system all these years to the
pragmatic non-theoretical no-nonsense atmosphere he
grew up with in the fifties and I suppose late
forties.  So Nader is for change and isn't just
looking to strenghten his position. But let me ask
you, since you obviously think that a candidate can
get into office without being on 'establishment'
debates and 'establishment' T.V. and maybe even,
although you don't say it, being courted by the rest
of the 'establishment' media how in the world do you
think that any candidate could possibly get his or her
point across? Maybe we should say that elections are
'establishment' as well and instead of having parties
try to have a massive write in campaign.
I wonder, do you actually think that a person can run
for president and NOT have himself be pictured as a
leader? Should everyone who runs just be wishy-washy
moderates that don't have any leadership skills or
people skills of any sort? And tell me again how this
person is supposed to get into office.  Nader is a
personality, that's why the Greens selected him, and
that's why, unlike McReynolds, Nader even get's his
name in the paper. Again, is that a bad thing, or is
he just selling out to the bourgeous press?  Should
all of the Nader volunteers just stand around, smoking
abandoningly, and say 'this Nader guy, what's so big
about him, should we even bother volunteering' instead
of commiting the sin of thinking that the guy they're
working for has made some important contributions? As
for this deal about respecting people who vote
Democratic, I'll be polite and say Rome wasn't built
in a day. You don't seem to realize that political
parties have to have a start some place and that they
take a while before they actually get a lot of
support. But then your supporting McReynolds, whose
org only has five hundred members so you should know
something about this right? Unless you believe that
the only valid new political party has to come through
some sort of mass uprising of what's left of the
industrial proletariat and instead of the revolution
there'll be the........party........my point is
generally self evident. I respect people who vote
Democratic too, that doesn't mean they're right. Oh
what a field day I could have with your self righteous
claim to be a union organizer and so one with the
'people'...

							John madziarczyk

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