AtDTDA (4) 101: Communications from far, far away

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 08:05:27 CST 2007


This discussion is as futile as the votes cast for Nader, but not
nearly as tragic.  "Fighting the good fight" in that case equaled
handing the election to Bush, and everyone knew it, including Nader,
long before election day.  But fanatics (and egomaniacs) care less
about results than they do about posturing.

David Morris

On 3/7/07, Bryan Snyder <wilsonistrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> come on... getting a third party is a much more important and larger goal than any one election.  Horrible president, but he's not going to usher the end of mankind or anything... most elections at such a level provide no real choice anyway.  The people responsible for Bush's "presidency" are:
>
> a.  the people that funded his campaign
> b.  the people that voted for him
> c.  the supreme court
> d.  the standing senators who refused to sponsor the several representatives' motions to do a recount.
>
> ...among several other groups of "people" but blaming someone for voting to get a 3rd party is discouraging them to continue to fight that good fight.



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