Headline: Vote theft rampant across country

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<P>Man, I really feel sorry for those poor embattled Democrats. Now they no=
t only have to fend off that vicious Republican-in-Socialist's-Clothes Nade=
r, but also The Pansexual Peace Party... (<A href=3D"http://members.tripod.=
com/Hail_Eris/eris/PPPP/platform/ppp03_0.htm">http://members.tripod.com/Hai=
l_Eris/eris/PPPP/platform/ppp03_0.htm</A>)</P>
<P>This particular party is kinda funny to me, as I don't understand the pa=
nsexual part...Maybe I'm just not up on the latest lingo (last I knew it wa=
s GLBTQA, any other letters are new to me). The way I stumbled upon it, tho=
ugh, was via this site:</P>
<P>(<A href=3D"http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm">http://www.politics1.c=
om/parties.htm</A>)</P>
<P>The site&nbsp;is great, as it lists a TON of third parties, from the obv=
iously-not-really-a-party parties to the Jesus-I-wish-this-were-not-really-=
a-party parties. More than anything, what I got out of it was that there ar=
e literally HUNDREDS of third parties out there. Hypothetically, all of the=
se parties are "stealing votes" from the two main parties. So why has Ralph=
 Nader drawn so much derision from the three heads of corporatist social co=
ntrol (R's, D's, and the media), while all the rest are simply laughed off =
and ignored? </P>
<P>Two reasons, so far as I can tell (and if I'm missing something or just =
plain wrong, I'd like debate on this) - 1: Ralph is a nationally-recognized=
 individual who has used his celebrity (of sorts) to create a trustworthy v=
oice that <EM>actively works against corporate interests</EM>. This one's o=
bvious. The second one, however, is the one that got me thinking: 2: The ot=
her parties listed there seemed to concentrate on one or maybe two issues, =
while Ralph has a global worldview rather than being a glorified (or deride=
d, I suppose) special interest group. Those parties following international=
ly established, but not domestically active political movements (Socialists=
, Nazis, and the ilk...) are an exception, but they've got basically the sa=
me problem in that their views&nbsp;are easily pigeon-holed by your average=
 American. I think that when a&nbsp;candidate (a) the people trust&nbsp;(b)=
 attempts to educate the populace about the state of our political system (=
c) from an anti-corporate stance is very dangerous. It's really quite simpl=
e to understand once you stop believing everything you read in your corpora=
te-owned newspaper, and I think that they're really afraid that Ralph will =
pop that bubble that's insulated the American populace from realizing how o=
ut of control they are. </P>
<P>A second point that can come up after looking over the number of third p=
arties is kinda related to this, that while there are literally hundreds of=
 third parties out there, only Ralph's campaign has a significant number of=
 followers nationwide, where significant is only meant in the statistical s=
ense. Why is it that Ralph is being blamed for his success? Isn't that why =
the capitalists are always railing on us Socialists? Regardless of that dou=
ble standard, can he be blamed for fracturing the left when he is simply on=
e of hundreds of voices? And isn't his blame directly correlated to his suc=
cess in (Dem's view) turning Dems away from Kerry or (my view) attracting p=
eople that otherwise would not have voted? Basically, I'm seeing that it's =
blame the second-most successful party in your general area, and you're in =
the moral right.</P>
<P>So, for those of you interested, I'm going to start a smear campaign aga=
inst...let's see here...Hows about the Revolutionary Communist Party (<A hr=
ef=3D"http://www.rwor.org/rcp-e.htm">http://www.rwor.org/rcp-e.htm</A>)? I =
don't know much about 'em, but they're splitting our vote, dammit! And when=
 you split the left that's splitting the left, you ruin democracy. </P>
<P>-A(m)</P><BR>
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