[lbo-talk] Anybody But Bush?

[Joseph Wanzala]

I think the more political movement the better - i.e. the more 'Democracy in 
Action' the better. I am still perplexed by anti-Nader antipathy among the 
'Anyone but Bush' crowd. There are, at this point, at least hundreds of 
thousands of Greens who are simply not going to vote for a Democrat, anymore 
than they would vote for a Republican. Beyond that, just as there are 
millions of Democrats who voted Republican in the 2000 presidential election 
and in the 2003 Governors race in California, there are some Greens who, if 
mobilized to the polls by Nader - or McKinney for that matter, will vote 
Green locally and vote Democratic (and perhaps in some cases Republican) 
thereby beneffitig the 'Anyone but Bush' movement by marginally offsetting 
the Democrats inabilty to mobilize their own base. Thus, demouning a 
Nader/Green Presidential run, is really spiting oneslef politically because 
while a Nader run will not hurt the Democrats - it might actually help them. 
Underlying the Nader-bashing sentiment it seems to me is an odd tendency to 
view the Green Party as the disobedient stepchild of the Democratic Party 
instead of an autonomous political party in a mture Democracy.

Joe W.


>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: [lbo-talk] Anybody But Bush?
>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:19:29 -0500
>
>Someone writes about me in another forum:
>
>>He has recently begun to dip his big toe into the "Anybody but Bush"
>>camp but does not seem to have the guts to be explicit about this. It
>>mostly amounts to Green Party bashing on his part.
>
>I'll have the guts to be explicit about this: almost anybody but Bush. Not 
>Lieberman. But just about anyone else. And if Nader runs, he will reveal 
>himself as a grandiose and destructive naif and the ludicrous reincarnation 
>of Harold Stassen.
>
>Doug
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