Reply #71: No third party is solving the problem...

[DjTj]

Even if voters are disgusted with the Republican and Democratic parties, there is no third party that is sufficiently non-disgusting to bring people to the polls, especially not in this election.

Voting third party this year will do little except possibly but George W. Bush in the White House and alienate those voters closer to center that the third parties would hope to woo. The Green Party will not die out this year if its Presidential candidate gets very few votes. The Green Party will not rise to a prominent status if its candidate gets a few percentage points.

The reality of this election is that there are far more ABB people out there, and no third party is going to effect any "real change" this year. In many other years I might agree, but in 2004 a third party Presidential vote is truly meaningless.

Chomsky gets it.