Thanks. I'm glad it works as an essay. I was a little concerned that the emotional tone didn't flow well, but it pretty much followed how I was feeling. People with Emotional Focus Deficit Disorder (a just-invented syndrome) deserve essays, too.
I don't think that voting for a third party candidate splits the vote in any injurious way if you weren't going to vote for the major candidate anyway. The point wasn't that people were voting for Nader, it's that people who otherwise would have voted for Gore voted for Nader instead.
In re revising Niemoller: One thing I realized during the run-up to the war in Iraq is that history is a lot harder when you're in the middle of it.
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Date: 2004-11-02 08:40 am (UTC)I don't think that voting for a third party candidate splits the vote in any injurious way if you weren't going to vote for the major candidate anyway. The point wasn't that people were voting for Nader, it's that people who otherwise would have voted for Gore voted for Nader instead.
In re revising Niemoller: One thing I realized during the run-up to the war in Iraq is that history is a lot harder when you're in the middle of it.