Oh there's plenty of anger to go around. I'm angry at every one of those things. I'm most angry about the supreme court and the disenfranchisement of black voters (similarly, I'm furious about Jeb Bush failing to recuse himself from election reforms, despited an obvious conflict of interes). I also believe the following to be true:
1.) No-one, not even Dan Savage blames the _entire_ election debacle on Nader, though they may be mad that the margin that he did sway probably helped us get into that Florida mess (not that it was his fault mind you). Still, he helped put us where we are today, even if it was unintentional... which I doubt. He knows he's a "spoiler."
2.) Ralph Nader started being a potential ally long ago and is following his own weird agenda. This is especially clear with the hindsight of the last four years and his decision to run again/ the way he's decided to frame his campaign.
"Aaron MacGruder said at one point that the Democrats are such losers that they were able to lose an election that they won."
I like Aaron MacGruder, but the irony of that is he's perpetuating the Democratic stereotype of loser-dom that he's satirizing. What I like about the Democratic party is that we're open to nuance and subtlety, but what seems to go along with that (and I don't know why, because it doesn't have to) is a negative fatalism. What we need to do, if we want to win, is to band together behind a unified party. That's where the Republicans always have us beat, as monumentally vexing as it is-- they're on message. Even if that message is evil and wrong. They spend enough time calling us losers without us doing the same thing to ourselves.
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Re: Wrong Again, Marge
Date: 2004-09-30 11:15 am (UTC)1.) No-one, not even Dan Savage blames the _entire_ election debacle on Nader, though they may be mad that the margin that he did sway probably helped us get into that Florida mess (not that it was his fault mind you). Still, he helped put us where we are today, even if it was unintentional... which I doubt. He knows he's a "spoiler."
2.) Ralph Nader started being a potential ally long ago and is following his own weird agenda. This is especially clear with the hindsight of the last four years and his decision to run again/ the way he's decided to frame his campaign.
"Aaron MacGruder said at one point that the Democrats are such losers that they were able to lose an election that they won."
I like Aaron MacGruder, but the irony of that is he's perpetuating the Democratic stereotype of loser-dom that he's satirizing. What I like about the Democratic party is that we're open to nuance and subtlety, but what seems to go along with that (and I don't know why, because it doesn't have to) is a negative fatalism. What we need to do, if we want to win, is to band together behind a unified party. That's where the Republicans always have us beat, as monumentally vexing as it is-- they're on message. Even if that message is evil and wrong. They spend enough time calling us losers without us doing the same thing to ourselves.