There was the Christian fundamentalist who realized that it was sometimes better to disagree with an honest politician and than agree with a dishonest one. There was the black mother who had voted Democratic all her life realizing that it was Democrats who had taken away her income support and sent her son 200 miles away to a privatized gulag for a minor drug infraction. There was the liberal who had listened to Democrats tell him for eight years that Clinton was the best president their political party could ever hope for. And so he left the party. It needs to change and the change begins with us, so after all these years, we will vote the Green Party ticket.
Every journey begins with that first step.
There were the voters tired of being called Clinton-haters simply for expecting their president to play the game straight. Things weren't meant to happen quite like this in the Third Way about which the media wrote incessantly, but as the Nader campaign was learning, perhaps there was a Fourth Way as well. Or maybe it was really just the First Way back again. A way with real, if uncomfortable, coalitions of mutual interest rather than with a false consensus created by the pornography of propaganda. Nader and the Green Party somewhat belatedly noticed that the crowd running ahead of them was their own campaign.