| joy garnett on 29 Oct 2000 19:40:37 -0000 |
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| Re: <nettime> Nader is important: get rid of him! |
Ivan Zassoursky wrote: > [also To: [email protected], CC: [email protected]] > > <snip> > > > > Vote for Nader. It will make you feel better. > > ivan zassoursky > __________________________________ great, just what we need: a bunch of righteous idealists running around *feeling better*. After Bush gets elected and sets about the devastation of the environment in Alaska, the right of women to choose, and a host of other things we all hold to be dear, (not to mention a host of policy we don't even understand or think about). I'm sure those feeling better might start to feel pretty bad... Don't be fooled by Nader: he isn't so different from these other guys running. He'll do anything to get ahead in some way, just like them, including undermining Gore and his campaign. Afterall, he *is* a politician. Nader's appeal to progressive-minded, well-educated, disenfranchized liberals is manipulative and misleading; it will make a difference, one very big difference, if Bush gets in. This is so obvious and the appeal to 60s nostalgia so pathetic and wrong-headed you'd think any toddler could point it out at a distance. (And I used to really look up to Susan Sarandon); what we need is pragmatism, not dreamy 60s revival idealism that will remain just that. One thing that would help in this fight would be to face up to what a simplistic, right-leaning, puritanical culture this really is; the dream of Nader is exciting, it's radical, but it's a dream. I don't buy that voting for him is an expediant measure --not for an instant. As for *fear*: people are afraid of Gore because he is intelligent, and an aristocrat (god-forbid) and therefore not one of them. He represents a classic ego-threat to the American Puritanical Everyman... Keep the Republicans OUT. Just do it. This is a crucial election. Don't throw it away. Don't vote Nader. Consolidate: vote Gore for all it's worth. Vote against Bush. j. garnett flaming liberal pragmatist # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]