Hi Allison,
thanks for writing in my guestbook.

Here's what I think on the election:

1. The closer Bush and Gore are in a particular state, the closer a vote for Nader comes to "equaling a vote for Bush." (But Bush close to Gore doesn't necessarily mean you should give your support to Gore... it depends on what you believe a vote is for.)

2. If the Gore-Bush race isn't close in your state, stop reading, vote Nader. If it is close, continue reading.

3. Statement #1 gets truer the more you believe that there IS an actual difference between Bush and Gore. If you believe that there isn't any difference, as Nader claims, then you're ok voting for Nader. I'm really not sure where I stand on whether Bush = Gore -- I think there IS a marked difference between Gore and Bush, and between their parties, and between the policies that their presidencies would manifest; however, in my mind "the direction America is headed" is related more strongly to stuff Nader talks about (corporate power and invented truths etc) than it is to whether Democrats or Republicans are in office. So...

4. To me it's most important that Nader and the Green Party get stronger. That said, maybe your vote isn't actually a vote for president. Maybe it's a vote for INFLUENCE. Since Democrats and Republicans each have well-worn cultures that probably weigh more heavily on their ideas than their actual living brains do, and since there is a third, equally established culture--the two-party political system--that probably adds to the likelihood that major party politicians are a bunch of suckers in a big insular sucker-world, I say vote for the good influence.
���A vote is the dumbest and the hardest of communications. There aren't any qualifications or explanations. If you want the truth to be known, you've got to vote like you mean it.


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