Well...starting this back up, cuz I saw Nader at my college today. He sold me. Basically same as below:
IcyMonkey wrote:
Why Nader? Well, I'm a left-liberal, as most of you probably know. America, in my opinion, is slowly turning into a plutocracy ruled by corporate interests. Large conglomerates contribute millions upon millions of dollars to both parties in order to ensure their continued loyalty. Because of this, the two major parties, though still different in many ways, are virtually identical when it comes to the issues most important for their corporate overlords. (What ever happened to campaign finance reform?)The only person with the balls to stand up to the large corporations, it seems, is our friend Ralph.
I personally would prefer a multi-party system to our current two-party one. I mean, what the hell? When it comes to choosing the leader of our country, we should be given more than two options. Unfortunately, in order to create a strong third party that could inject more variety into American political discourse, people have to overcome their idea that voting for a third party is "wasting" your vote. No third party will ever become powerful enough to challenge the rule of the Republicans and Democrats without people taking risks and "wasting" their votes on that party when it is still small. Admittedly, the American electoral system seems to be inherently structured against a multi-party election, but we're certainly not going to change that until we create an awareness of third parties as viable political entities.
Of course, Nader's running as an idependent rather than a Green this time; however, the principle still applies. In this case, rather than strengthening a particular third party, a vote for Nader would lend support to the idea that the two major parties should not be the only possible options in an election.
like I said, pretty much the same reasons. And I REALLY do think he's a VERY viable candidate, his problem is that he has NO exposure, he's blocked from the major debates, since the major parties control them, he doesn't take major corporation money, so TV ads are very hard...hell all he has is his own speaking and mostly word of mouth.
And anyway, he's the only candidate i've seen with NO flaws besides getting his messege out, so there's my vote already.
Hell, I'm goin out to get petition signatures so he can at least get on the presidential ballots.
Texas apperently has been a HUGE battle for him...he needs 100,000 sigs apperently, which is 20k more than the major candidates, and he has to do it in 2 weeks less time than the others. He's since sued over the whole issue.