I think Marty Jezer should not discount the impact that this Nader campaign is having upon both young people and blue collar workers. Nader's educational campaign on progessive issues is suceeding much more than any other program that the left has attempted in years. He has become the antidote to the Democratic Leadership Council's version of traditional Republican values. If Al Gore can't defeat George W. Bush, he doesn't deserve to be president of a lodge, let alone, the presidency of the United States. Jezer should look at the transformation, however temporary that the Democratic Party went through in the seventies. If Gore is defeated, the Democratic Party will be up for grabs. If Gore wins the seeds for a progressive party will have been planted. There will be less co-option of the Naderites by a Gore Administration than there has been of the Jesse Jackson Rainbow. It won't be easy, but it is a glimmer of hope for a progessive movement in 2000. chuck
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