Reply #96: I too lived the history and, far from blaming Nader, I blame myself. [View All]

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Why's that, you ask? Because I knew enough history and should have dropped everything and headed to Florida to take it to the streets against the brown shirts sent to halt the vote count. (In my defense, neither Gore nor anyone of any national prominence issued a call for us to come to Florida to stand up to the brown shirts.)

I knew there was something completely rotten going on in Florida and got into several shouting matches at work with Repuke colleagues at the time. (On a semi-humorous note, I continued speaking to said Repukes until Operation Shocking and Awful kicked off :) However, despite knowing that a coup was going down in Florida, I shirked my responsibility to the sacred republic.

The newspaper recounts after the fact merely confirmed what I had known all along. The Supreme Court had to stop the vote counts because Bush did not have the votes. In tossing out the principle of 'one man, one vote' America was lost. And my failure to go to Florida to take it to the streets played a small role in that.