Voters are drifting away from the stagnant Gore campaign. Faced with a real Republican and an ersatz one, many Democrats will go bowling. Al a little further in the hole. What's more, his supporters, still a tiny band, are the only enthusiastic-sounding people anywhere. Both national parties now exist as wholly owned subsidiaries of corporate America.
Someone has to do something.
Fact is, throughout American history, almost the only way the major parties ever get nudged in the direction of progress is when third parties scare em. We have forgotten it was Norman Thomas and Eugene Debs, heroic democratic socialists, who laid the groundwork for unemployment insurance and Social Security. Big business has been colliding with American democracy and democracy has been losing. We are working longer and more stress-filled hours than ever and even though this is the greatest boom in history, taking home less than in 1973. What Nader wants to do is not win the election, but wake America up.