Re: RAT At least do no harm

[Gleaball@aol.com]

In a message dated 08/12/2000 7:52:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
bards@independenteye.org writes:

<< time to vote our
 consciences rather than our nightmares. >>

Yahoo! I say...

Vote FOR!  Yahoo!

When was the last time you actually wanted to vote FOR someone? 
 
When was the last time you heard a politician actually own up to the fact 
that making $6-8/hour (and yeah, that's a good job by the standards of most 
of the people I know') is truly an unlivable wage?

The poor of this country deserve to hear what Nader has to say. There are 
alot more of us (although we have alot less money),  than there are of them 
that holds the puppet and purse strings of the other candidate (and I'm using 
the singular purposefully, 'cause really - what is the difference between the 
two?)

Please, if you have not yet visited http://www.votenader.com and read Nader's 
acceptance speech for Green Party candidate, I beg you to do so.  I am not 
normally "engaged" in politics, but this man engages me.  This man speaks 
about issues and does so in meaningful and tangible ways.  This man actually 
blew the smog of paranoia and distrust that I feel for all politicians into 
the wind long enough for me to see a horizon of possibilities. I may be 
admitting too much at this point, but I actually shed a layer of cynicism 
through bitter tears when I read his words - not because they were 
strategically crafted empty, patriotic, "feel good" rhetoric, but because 
they reflected so many of my own ideas.  Somebody out there with a world view 
similar to my own  hadn't given up on the system yet.  Nader seems to  see 
the corruption and pollution and poverty and injustice and instead of turning 
his back on it and zoning into the amnesia of money or drugs or sex or 
whatever acts as the Collective Morphine Drip, has instead stood up and made 
a case for why we should all re-engage; why we should all wake the fuck up 
and do what it takes to change before it's too late to do so.

Vote Nader!

GB
in 
LA