This is no way to run a democracy!

The electoral process in the United States is terribly broken - and that is the primary reason anybody should be annoyed with Ralph Nader's decision to run for president yet again. Let's all be honest here and just admit that Nader is a spoiler. He is a spoiler because the system is rigged to favour the two mainstream parties and his presence only serves as yet another cog in that dastardly machine. His acceptance of donations from republicans and the fact that Mike Huckabee even blatantly admitted that a Nader run was "a good thing for [the republican party]" should drive the point home. Ralph: get wise and understand that you are being used as a pawn in the same system you claim to be railing against.

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