Does anybody really care?

but i'm sure his mom does. he lied in 2000: gore doesn't and never did equal bush. gore was right, on several levels, bush has been wrong on so many things, you need a scorecard to keep track. that nader is so blinded by ego, as to not be able to tell the difference between the two, is a sufficient indictment of his complete unfitness for public office.

Anyway...

Learned of this in the last week, as my family gathered for a funeral of all things.  My little brother was in Afghanistan last year, in the mountains of the south, in and out of Waziristan, where Bin Laden is believed to be hiding out.  He was instructed by a superior in the Army (my brother is a captain in the Marines) to burn down a certain village.  My brother flatly refused, having worked with the people of the village, and knowing that their refusal to help Americans was tied to their conviction that the Taliban will kill them immediately if they do help Americans.  My brother knew these villagers were good people, knew we just needed to be patient, work with them more, and he would not torch their village.  Enduring the threats from this Army superior, my brother fought for what he believed was right, risking his own position of security, and he ultimately won.  This village was not burned down, these people's lives were not destroyed.

While I think we years ago abandoned and f*cked the people of Afghanistan with Bush's Iraq wet dream, I take comfort in knowing there are some soldiers who will stand up to power and do the right thing.  For all of our political differences on many issues, I am so proud of my kid brother.  But he's back to Iraq in the winter (his second tour there) unless something drastic ends this sh*t.  

That does NOT mean, however, that Nader was (or is) a viable alternative candidate. I think, however, that if he did run, he would definitely draw more votes this time. I wouldn't vote for him, but then I'm not planning to vote for anyone. Been there, done that. All it does is encourage them! And the corporate authoritarian state needs no help from me...

The problem is not the candidates or the parties. The problem is our world-view, something almost no one understands (least of all me). Our civilization is utterly unsustainable, as are our politics, and it all derives from our erroneous understanding of the relationship between matter and consciousness.

The greatest threat to our way of life comes not from the terrorists but from our own complacency in allowing a creeping authoritarianism to change our definition of what it is to be a free people.

All it took was a handful of religious fanatics with a willingness to commit suicide to make an awful lot of Americans forget that.

Then elsewhere these same liberals admit that the election was stolen by the Florida GOP and the Supreme Court.  

I keep hearing that Nader is for Bush and is to be blamed for everything W the fascist did.  How stupid can you fools get.  

I voted for Nader because Gore's middle of the road crap made me sick.  I will vote for him again if the Democratic candidate does not promise to withdraw the troops immediately and unconditionally.  Otherwise, the Democrats will continue to accept the votes from leftish voters, then crap on them.  

Clinton ran on platforms such as the the rebuilding of America's infrastructure.  He turned around and spent bupkus.  

Nader speaks the truth that nobody wants to hear...our democracy has been bought.  Democrats and Republicans are the auctioneers, selling us out a piece at a time.

He's got my vote already...Nader or whatever 3rd party guy is on the ballot.