> http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2003/12/03/
> nader_is_said_to_consider_a_2004_run/
>
Being that half of eligible voters don't vote, I always wonder why some Democrats are obsessed with the 1-2% of people who vote for a party to the left of the Democrats.
It's perfectly obvious. These DLC "new" Democrats are perfectly happy with half of Americans, mostly poor and working class Americans, being disengaged from politics. That's where they want them to be. Which is why they spend all of their time attacking a grassroots, bottom up party that embodies progressive principles, instead of being just one of the two heads on the Republicrat body. You see this over on Democratic Underground - thread after thread about the danger of the Greens, but very little worried about the half of Americans who do not vote. Americans who might vote when they learn that unlike the Democrats, Greens have reparations for slavery, gay marriage, and the like in their platform, and a candidate who actually says in general speeches "repeal Taft-Hartley" (when was the last time a Democrat said that)?
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