> > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 5:41 PM Travis Reid via groups.io <travis.reid= yahoo....@groups.io> wrote: >> ............ >> Some of you may not be old enough to remember the 2020 election (means the 2000 election), but I cringe when I think of how Gore lost by an only a handful of votes that would have come his way had Nader not run. > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 4:04 PM Dennis Brasky via groups.io <dmozart1756= gmail....@groups.io> wrote: . . . > It's remarkable - and depressing - that so many on the left continue to mindlessly regurgitate this falsification of recent history. Once again, and briefly, many Black votes in Florida were thrown out, giving Bush his "win." Jesse Jackson demanded that the Democrats challenge this in court, but Gore conceded, rather than win and be beholden to Black America. ... >>
The myth that Nader cost Gore the 2000 presidential election was used successfully to pressure the Green Party's leadership not to run Nader again in 2004. The Green Party caved to this pressure in late 2003/2004 and rejected Nader's offer to run again - imo Nader rallying antiwar sentiment and building on the success of the 2000 campaign would have fostered a serious growing challenge to the capitalist's two-party political system. Instead the Greens ran a nationally unknown token candidate David Cobb, initiallly contemplating a "safe-states" strategy on behalf of John Kerry it turned out that the Cobb campaign was too insignificant to matter. The 'Nader cost Gore the 2000 presidential election' myth is now central to the arsenal of capitalist system 'lies our teachers and the mainstream media teach us' (like 'Israel is a democratic state'). The reality is that half of Florida's registered Democrats didn't bother to vote in 2000 and 12% of them - over 200,000 - voted for Bush. In addition to Nader/Greens, each of the other seven third party presidential candidates on the Florida ballot in 2000 got more than the 543 votes that supposedly made the difference, see < http://www.cagreens.org/alameda/city/0803myth/myth.html>. Along with the effect of voter suppression and related Republican dirty tricks, Gore didn't even put up a fight for a full Florida recount. Later recounts indicated that Gore had actually won the Florida election. dayne -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31428): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31428 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107506784/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
