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...presidential candidate. By contrast, I am fortunate enough to have worked closely over several years with two of them. As the race gets serious and the fringe candidates fade away, this amazing coincidence gives me a unique perspective on the question all Americans will soon have to face: Nader or Buchanan...
...candidates and make a serious choice. Both men proved their seriousness this week. The Federal Election Commission ruled that Buchanan is entitled to the Reform Party's $12.6 million in matching funds, which makes him one of the nation's larger welfare mothers. And a federal judge ruled that Nader may continue running a TV commercial that parodies those of MasterCard. Given the continuing controversies over Gore's fund raising and Bush's commercials, it is obvious which are the two serious candidates...
...Nader has often been called bossy as well. And he actually was my boss for several years in the 1970s. It's a different kind of bossiness--more an insistence that you see reason and therefore give up all frivolous pleasures in life and less a brutal demand that you bend to his will. But I have seen Nader convince a roomful of young adults, albeit briefly in most cases, that they want to dedicate their lives to irritating others for the general good. Whereas Buchanan's general approach is to aggravate the irritations you are feeling about others...
...Nader's politics have changed over the years in a different way. In his early days, he disappointed many admirers by refusing to take an active stance against the Vietnam War for fear of reducing his effectiveness as a consumer advocate. In fact, he was thought of as somewhat apolitical, and the very notion of consumer advocacy was regarded by many on the left (and there were indeed many on the left back then) as an antipolitical elevation of trivial, bourgeois concerns. Seat belts? C'mon, there's a war going...
...fact that candidates like Nader and Buchanan have emerged indicates a shift in political attitudes yet unrecognized by either major candidate. Voters feel abandoned by the political process, as candidates promise campaign finance reform but take millions of dollars from private interests; while they argue about how the RATS got into their campaign commercials or how they can adopt each other's stance as their own. Many voters have simply become alienated from their own political process. Others are tired of waiting and have begun to work for and seek out their own choices. If the Debate Commission continues...