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Village Voice: "A Green Light for Nader"
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Jun 25, 2009 04:38pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Village Voice supports Ralph Nader for president.
Nader and the Green Party are the only national political force willing to speak out against the stranglehold that corporate America has on our political system. We believe Nader would battle poverty and inequality, rein in globalization and an imperial foreign policy, abandon the war on drugs, and work to ban the death penalty. The Clinton-Gore administration has done little in these vital areas, choosing to abet big money and placate conservatives instead. The Democrats and the Republicans, in fact, share common ground on most of these issues. A vote for Nader is a protest against lesser-evilism and the rightward drift of the Democrats.
Many progressives and liberals support Al Gore (see "Nader: Unsafe at Any Issue"), but we find his track record dubious. The Clinton-Gore administration gutted welfare, then failed in adding the jobs half of the "reform." They rammed through NAFTA and GATT and China's preferred trade status. They passed the liberty-shredding 1994 crime bill and the 1996 immigration bill, which in conjunction with the welfare bill stripped legal immigrants of access to social services. Clinton-Gore has funded Colombian counterinsurgency and backed the missile defense boondoggle. Gore pushed for passage of the crime bill, has promised to cover America in "a blanket of blue" with 50,000 new cops, and has urged prison expansion and mandatory sentencing. Like his vice-presidential nominee, Gore voted for the Gulf War. Lieberman backed California's Proposition 209 (which outlawed affirmative action) and voted with the GOP on the nomination of Sheldon Hackney to be head of the NEH. Is it any wonder we have trouble supporting the Democratic ticket? |
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