There are much more important things at stake than the presidential horse race. I've no intention of 'radicalizing the middle class' as you suggest Nerd. The middle class has long been a lost cause politically. They are, after all, the people who put Bush in the White House.

Now the Democratic Leadership Council Democrats like Big Mick and yourself, do want to believe that Bush being in the White House is all Nader's fault. Big Mick is the Democrat propaganda party line when it comes to Nader. He spouts every lie and myth told by the party--it is all so dull and predictable. But the truth is, Bush is in the White House because the Democrats couldn't get enough votes to decisively defeat Bush. If they had the country behind them, the Florida debacle never would have happened, the Supreme Court would never have intervened, and they wouldn't be guilty today of ignoring all the African American voters disenfranchised in the 2000 election to keep their votes from being counted. Not one Democrat stood up for the African American voters. Not one.

And I'm sorry to disappoint you Nerd, but if you think the radical left is in business to win elections, you are sadly mistaken. The radical left is in business to further an agenda of social and political change. Some leftists do electoral work, but most don't. We work in ways that puts pressure to bear on the political system, but that doesn't mean we participate beyond voting or occassionally working for progressive candidates.

More myths and lies from the middle class mainstream is what I'm seeing here, but no one talking about the issue raised in this thread: official censorship of political dissenters at the highest levels by the Democratic Party. Treating the progressive wing of the Democratic party as terrorists and criminals.

I am obviously now willing to pay the price you are willing to pay for victory and putting that pathetic excuse for a candidate in the Oval Office. Demonizing and criminalizing political dissent in order to win will never be the answer.

But I'm sure I can't scare you guys, you're sticking with the empire.