I'm not picking on Bert, honest, but he is new to our ways and our pitfalls.
In isolation, his final paragraph about Gore-Nader does link from legitimate
Minneapolis issues, but he does not know that refighting Gore-Nader quickly
leaves our borders, takes over the forum, and decimates local topics like
gypsy moths munching through a domestic forest.
To all partisans: please resist the urge to re-fight the last presidential
election. (The bulk of Bert's post is perfectly appropriate; the gypsy moth
portion is left below for all members to steer clear of.)
David Brauer
List manager
Not a dictator, just a nice guy sincerely trying to keep the list on-point
(although this is probably what Stalin said to the Soviet people...)
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Subject: Re: [Mpls] Political Parties
If we are going to judge only upon recent events, let me say that I find the
arguments used by Mr. Nader and the Green Party in the past election
reminiscent of the Trotskyites. I sensed a "let's make it worse before we
make it better" mentality, a recklessness, a willing to play with history
and
a divisive attitude. Mr. Nader said (paraphrasing here) "If Al Gore can't
beat this incompetent Texan, what good is he?" The point, however was that
due to Mr. Nader and his Florida voters (and elsewhere), we are stuck with a
government that looks like it will cruise full steam ahead to do some
terrible things. While VP Gore is certainly responsible for his own
campaign,
I am sure that there would have been 1,000 Nader voters who would have
otherwise voted for Gore.
Bert Black
King Field
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