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In reply to the discussion: Questions for those Dems who think Nader and Third Party Voters are [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Or who simply didn't vote, as they didn't see much difference between the two men.
That Bush/Gore election did not have the big turn out that we saw in 2008, for instance. Many people stayed home.
But I do want to point out that Al Gore's Big And Huge Climate concerns didn't involve him until quite a while after that 2000 election.
In fact, early on in the Clinton Presidency, Gore helped the Big Industries and their bad practices by being the president of the Senate on the day of a tie-breaking vote. Had he voted for the Anti Pesticide bill then, we environmental activists would have secured the policy of Proven Safety - a policy that guides the European Union. In this policy, a chemical has to be proven safe before it can be used, rather than in our "wait and see" policy where companies can use a product until the bodies start piling up, or until some important aspect of the environment, for instance, the bees, are irreversibly harmed.
Besides this vote in the Senate, Gore also manipulated officials in France into letting Monsanto's Gm seed into their nation!