“The strategy of the Democratic Party is to beat the Republicans by becoming more like them,” Nader said. “How can they get away with that? If they become more like the Republic Party they start eating into the Republican vote. This usually would inflict a price on them. They would lose the left’s vote, but since the left signaled to the Democrats that their vote can be taken for granted because the Republicans are too horrible to contemplate, they get both. As a result, when you put this cocktail together, becoming more Republican to get Republican votes and hanging on to the left because they have nowhere to go, you set up a tug in the direction of the corporations. There is no discernable end to this strategy by the left. When you ask the left they say not this year, sometime later. But when? If it is not now, if it is sometime in the future, when? What is their breaking point? If you do not have a breaking point you are a slave.”

I voted for Nader in the past two presidential elections. Yes, it was an exercise in futility, save the fact that my conscience is clean. I took the Freeman's Oath seriously, and hold "...fear or favor of ANY person," to mean that I should not vote, out of fear, for the lesser of two evil candidates. I stopped voting Republicratic a decade ago as the "options" they present are nothing more than a duopolist con-job offering, in fact, NO option.

I vote for the candidate I think will do the best job. PERIOD.

I will NOT vote for ANY candidate beholden to war profiteers, corporate robber barons, or foreign entanglements!

I feel like a broken record, but it's going to take a few more slaps in the face for most "liberals," to realize the system is absolutely, completely and irreconcilably corrupt, deceptive and illegitimate. And slapped they will be.