The reds will know Nader and his supporters are serious about reaching out to the middle when they start advocating policies to get the feds out of our face. Look, if the blues insist on banning gun ownership, approving gay marriage and instituting all-out socialism, hey, good for them. Everything will be great just as long they don t impose their wacky ideas on us or, more importantly, ask us to foot the bill. If blues kind of government is so great, then they ll have no problem convincing the rest of the nation. What works works.
People are very practical out here.
But the left doesn t care about practicality. They re true believers owing fealty to a new secular religion, and its orthodoxies must be obeyed, regardless of the truth. Like some Hegelian fiend, this faith insists on its inevitability. Those who resist the new religion are to be brought into line, no matter the means, damn the law and tradition. For now, Middle America still resists the movement.