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The Man With A Chronically Incurable Case of Stickittothemaneosis

October 6th, 2008 axiomatic, political

This video illustrates my thesis that the differences between the two major parties are merely superficial.

“Our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey.”

Patrick J. Buchanan
2000 Reform Party Presidential Candidate

Ralph Nader, love him or hate him, is an exceptional personality. He comes from Catholic Arab Lebanese descent, speaks Arabic, Chinese, Russian, graduated Princeton and Harvard, has been a consumer rights activist since the 50’s, and a 5 time presidential candidate.

He is lambasted by the Democratic party for causing Gore’s defeat by 527 Florida votes in 2000. To this he responds: each of the seven other 3rd party candidates got more votes than the spread, Gore lost his home state of Tennessee, the controversial Supreme Court decision blocked a recount, and 250,000 registered Florida Democrats voted for Bush.

He says if the Democrats can’t win 2008 in a landslide, they ought to just wrap up, close down, and emerge in a different form. I gleaned some good thoughts from him on the spirit of the 3rd party concept this weekend:

“There comes a time when the least worst is just not good enough for America.”

“How is it that the 65th seed in the NCAA tournament is given a chance to win the whole thing but a 3rd party presidential candidate is not allowed to debate with the other two?”

To know and not to act is not to know. (Chinese Proverb)

Ralph Nader
2008 Independent Presidential Candidate

“Better to vote for someone you believe in and lose, than to vote for someone you do not believe in and win, because that someone will surely betray you.”

Eugene Debs
1900 3rd party presidential candidate