Reply #50: Howard Zinn FTW [View All]

[B.S. Lewis]

or (gasp!!) Ralph Nader.

A lot of Democrats read Zinn and Chomsky and then happily vote for Democrats. It's like what they're reading isn't even sinking in. Vote for Democrats maybe, but not happily, just as the slightly lesser of two corporation-beholden, imperialist evils. At most, vote Democrat because they can win but channel the majority of your political efforts to things outside the electoral race, things that can potentially make any actual progressive difference. (That is, assuming you are concerned with economic justice and a non-interventionist foreign policy, rather than just domestic "cultural" issues like gay marriage and civil rights).

Zinn and Chomsky plan to vote Nader in 2004

Personally, if I lived in Ohio, I would vote Democrat, but because I live in CA, I will vote Green or Nader. In either case, I don't put nearly any importance in a vote, because the Democrats won't change things and Greens/Nader can't win. The idea that Nader/the Greens should run a full campaign in every state is absurdly anti-democratic. It's the Nader voters' "fault", not Nader's, if he takes votes from the Democratic candidate. To try and deprive people of the choice just amazes me.

Wow, this turned into a huge derail--Oh well.