Claude, thanks for the link. I misunderstood Nader's goals -- I thought he was trying to build a bridge to a three-or-more-party system by getting the 5%, push the discourse left and stay out of Gore's way otherwise. That article makes it pretty clear that Nader has been about "heightening the contradictions" from day one. I personally think that strategy wrong-headed. Suppose that GOP excesses after 2000 do indeed shift the vote left: is it not likely that this will hand a subsequent election (please, please let it be 04) to a Dem candidate well before any kind of radical restructuring of the Dem party, or radical Green shift in the vote, can happen?
As one of the squat and ugly (Taibbi doesn't specify a tribe, so I assume he means all of us), I'd just like to offer the datapoint that I am not wiping anyone out.
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