[lbo-talk] Bush expected to announce candidacy any day now

[Shane Mage]

Doug wrote:
>...I know many people who voted for Nader in '00 - including two 
>members of my own household - who wouldn't do it today, and I think 
>there are many like us. The desire to evict Bush is uppermost in 
>almost every left-of-center American mind today, including many 
>who've surprised me. I've come across very few people who'd vote for 
>Ralph in November, much less any nonentity like Jonathan Farley, 
>whoever he is.

Considering that you live in New York, where the votes of people
like you or me cannot possibly affect the "race" between Ubu
and Kerry or any other Dumbocrat and therefore the only even
infinitesimally meaningful vote has to be a protest one, what
is your alternative to the Nader or Farley electors?  A sect? The Libertarians?

Shane Mage

"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all 
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even 
downright silly.

When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all 
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."  (N. 
Weiner)