Palestine Is The New Nader

In 2000, Ralph Nader ran for President on a progressive platform as a member of the Green Party, specifically hoping to appeal towards members of the left who disliked the person Democrats put up for President that same year, Al Gore. After George W. Bush won the election with 271 Electoral Votes, only crossing the threshold because of Gore losing by 537 votes, it became common knowledge among Democrats that Nader was the reason Gore lost. A website called RalphDontRun.net was created which begged Nader not to make the same mistake in 2004, and an episode of of Real Time with Bill Maher from 2004 saw both the host and guest Michael Moore — who had supported Nader in 2000 — begging Nader not to run out of fear he’d similarly cost John Kerry the election.

The evidence of Nader being the reason Gore lost is, to be blunt, rather shaky. John Nichols’s book Jews For Buchanan: Did You Hear The One About The Theft of the American Presidency? documented various corrupt tactics used in Florida to give to the state to Bush, including disenfranchising black voters and using the infamously confusing butterfly ballots that caused thousands of people to accidentally vote for Pat Buchanan instead of Al Gore. In other words: Nader couldn’t have cost Gore Florida because Republicans cheated to win the state in the first place, something they only needed to do because Gore had rightfully won it. (YouTuber Mr. Beat…