[lbo-talk] nader and his detractors...

[Rodrigo Llmar]

You got it right. One thing: In times when a presidential elections is
not so important, it is good to have a national candidate for the
education it brings to voters about the Green Party.

Have you ever read the Green Party platform?  It's an amazing document. 

Cheers,
RL

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:45:36 -0400, ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> could someone from the nader camp summarize, to humour me, in as logical
> a manner as possible, why the following argument does not hold?
> 
> a) bush is a particularly vicious menace to the world and replacing him
> with kerry would make a small but significant difference (i will throw
> in a simple example of something that may improve: environmental
> protection).
> 
> b) the best (and perhaps only) way to make third-parties and their
> candidates viable is to start at the state/county/town/city level, both
> in terms of growing such parties, and fighting the practices
> (winner-take-all, lack of runoffs in elections, etc) that make them
> infeasible.
> 
> thank you,
> 
>         --ravi
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