Jim wrote:
Is the Nader campaign the best way to build the mass movements we need? especially considering the fact that Nader is going to run it?
Vote for Nader 2004 = Vote for Camejo 2008.
Might it make more sense to simply ignore the presidential election (as Carrol's first comment above suggests), leaving the issue of actual voting to each individual's conscience (since it won't have much effect anyway)?
If all ignored the presidential election, it would make sense for us to ignore it, too, but the state of politics is not close to the stage where the government has lost its political legitimacy completely and elections do not matter at all any longer.
If the non-DP left ignore the presidential election while others are paying attention, we simply help perpetuate the rhythm of US politics: three years of protests, one year of electoral campaigns for Democrats during which the gains made in the previous three years are lost, and then back to protests again. -- Yoshie
* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>
