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In reply to the discussion: Re: the recent spate of "will you vote if_____?" - aka "loyalty" threads. [View all]progree
(10,890 posts)[font color = brown]>>Yes, it's a little harder to blame his voters -- most of them were clueless about the realities of our political system. And for those who were a little less ignorant, it made them feel good being pure and wonderful even if they knew they were throwing away their vote.<<[/font]
[font color = blue]>>I don't believe any of the Nader voters feel like they "threw away" their vote<<[/font]
Any? Out of 97,488 votes for Nader?
Well, perhaps a lot fewer than I think thought that they were throwing away their vote at the time.
But now, I betcha most of them wish they hadn't thrown away their vote now on an egotistical bozo. Unless they are happy with all the 5-4 Supreme Court decisions we've had over the last many years and all the wars and the Great Recession.
[font color = red]On Edit:[/font] And if some of them thought that voting for Nader would build up the Green Party or Nader's prospects for the next election, well, that didn't work out either. Support for both were much diminished in the 2004 election and after. And despite Republican funding of several Green Party candidates in close races.
And progressive superheros like Michael Moore and Barbara Ehrenreich who supported Nader in 2000 sang a very different tune in 2004. Seems like quite a few learned their lesson (people like Nader are called spoilers for a reason).
More on not blaming the voters -- just about everyone in this thread blames Gore for the outcome ... but wasn't it the primary voters who made him the Democratic nominee? And don't we in DU spend lots of time and energy ridiculing the Republican base's voters -- idiots who vote against their own interest and all that?