There's an alternative universe out there where Ralph Nader didn't run and there was no Green Party spoilers...
In that universe, guess what! Gore runs to the right chasing Bush; the Florida election is still a mess; Gore still loses! The only difference is that Maria Cantwell doesn't get elected because there's no bump from Nader voters who vote DP down the ticket. In my neck of the woods, Stabenow loses to Spence Abraham for the same reason (Nader got 2% in Mich, Stabenow won by 1%, the Green Senate candidate got .09% so Nader voters bumped up Stabenow). So in that universe the Senate is controlled by the Republicans.
Read Sam Smith's analysis of the vote in Progressive Review. Nader's vote was mostly from new voters not disaffected Democrats. Had Nader not run, they would not have voted. Those were not Gore votes. I would not have voted for Gore.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that Nader's to blame for everything bad. You act like Nader ran a shell game on the voters. Approximately 5 million voters leaning toward Nader voted for Gore (assuming Nader had 7% going into the final stretch, compared to the 2.74% he ended with). The voters who stayed with Nader knew he wasn't going to win and they voted for him anyway, because they were saying this system sucks and screw the consequences. Nader got 2.88 million votes in the end and while I acknowledge that some of those votes were from hard-core sectarians like myself, most of them were from that group known and beloved as the 'masses'. Are voters idiots for protesting? I hope you're not saying that.
Gore ended up with 50,999,897 votes to Bush's 50,456,002 (FEC website). Your candidate won the popular vote and by all fairness should be president. If you want to be mad, be mad at the Electoral College and the whole way we elect presidents.
Fraternally, Alan Jacobson