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. We agreed with Mr. Nader, but believed 'he can't win.' . . . 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. In Mexico, the campaign appealed to the jodidos, which is to say, those who have been screwed. The phrase made its way north into the Nader campaign. In London, the new coalition included a woman who used to chain herself to buses and a man who once went to court dressed as a gorilla after refusing to pay a bus fare. 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.