Many voices, some his friends and allies of yore, counseled him not to do this. They miss the point. The point is to participate in power, not lower your expectations so that you meekly accept assurances that the government will fix our problems. If you put first the need to protect yourself from the worst, you give your vote away to a lesser evil. That way lies the attrition of your power and the atrophy of your freedom.
Freedom is participation in power.
Nader said that often. Not Whole-Hogging It Look again at the word Participation . This kind of behavior and attitude has now fully seeped into Washington and threatens whatever is left of our democracy. It is not the Green way. We look for models to Lech Walesa and Poland's Solidarity Movement which brought the Comnmunist regime to the bargaining table in the spring of 1989, an event that led directly to the toppling of the Wall in Germany later that year.