At 12:37 AM 10/29/00 -0700, Kristin wrote:
>> I'm sorry, but Ralph Nader is an extremist nut, and the major poitns of his
>> campaign platform, according to his own website, nationalized healthcare,
>> publicly financed elections, and an end to free trade have all been soundly
>> rejected by the American people. Even worse, many of his supporters come
>> from The Greens/Green Party USA, and those people are flat out lunatics,
>> with almost no understanding of economics, or good governance. The last
>> thing I want is a system that would enfranchise all of these people on the
>> fringes, from Ralph Nader to Pat Buchanan to Harry Browne.
>
>Soundly rejected by the AMERICAN people. *Sigh* it is a cultual
>thing; Europeans tax themselves to pay for nationalized healthcare and
>public electoin fnancing and the like, but Americans are descended from
>tax rebels and will never accept that. You are probably right about the
>people rejecting these things, but does that mean the rest of the world is
>run by extremist nuts? They seem to get along all right.
Well, it is my understanding that the Green Party is a fringe party even in
European countries like Germany. Also, "extremism" is a very relative
thing...... I don't know much about European politics, but over here
increasing taxes the amount Nader would need to in order to provide health
care for all (especially with Mexico being so close), gutting our 1st
Amendment (which is a state religion in these parts) for campaign-finance
reform, and ending decades of bipartisan commitment to free trade amounts
to nutty extremism. All three of those positions have been soundly
rejected by the American people, except for a marginal fringe, which by my
book labels them as "extreme."
JDG
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