In 2000, I supported Ralph Nader's bid for the presidency. This year, I'm not. Here's why:
2004 is not 2000 This election is not a referendum on four more years of Clinton-Gore; it's a referendum on four more years of Bush-Cheney. As a supporter of third parties and political reforms to open up the process to ordinary people (and take it away from giant corporations and the wealthy), I wish the presidential election could be about more than that. But ever since Bush revealed himself to be an unabashed unilateralist, a crony capitalist of the first order, and a millennial madman who imagines that 9-11 has given him absolute authority, it's been hard to hope that the election could be about much more than stopping him.