Who the heck is this Nader guy that keeps getting mentioned on the list? Is he an American politician or something?
It seems to me that in America the two political parties both sing from
Anti corporate crusader Ralph Nader. Made famous by his campaigns and class action suits against car companies. American Green Party candidate and a generally swell human being. the
same proverbial hymn sheet. Is it really democratic to have a two party political system?
Other parties are allowed, but they simply don't have corporate backing - i.e. big money, so most people never hear much about them. You're in the UK right? How can you criticize the two party US system? Yours is almost identitical and on top of it, you've got those blithering old idiots in the house of lords and all those inbred royals to deal with. Tories/Labour, Republicans/Democrats, not much difference. The difference between Tony Blair (is that his name?) and Bill Clinton is one got press from spilling his seed in his wife, the other on an intern's dress. John Major was identical to George Bush, and Thatcher was Reagan in a dress. Its almost like you wait to see what happens in the US and then vote for the closest facsimile ;-) Perhaps that's just the way it
is in the most powerful country on earth, where you can vote for any president you want as long as they're right wing.
Oh now don't get too high and mighty. Your fading empire is just the same. Introduce some radical
lefties, communists or environmentalists or something and stir it all up a bit
And THAT would be Ralph Nader.
For what it's worth, I think anybody who wants to be a politician or president or whatever shouldn't be allowed within a hundred miles of an election because they're generally all in it for the ego trip and not for the benefit of the people who vote for them.
Well I won't really argue with that, but lets not put all the blame on the politicians for the lack of change. If everybody who isn't going to bother to vote - for example - went out and voted for Nader, real change would actually happen. "the people" have only themselves to blame. and Judy is a dick slap ;-) Ed +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+