Indeed, the Green Party is putting themselves on the machine. And the Party supports candidates who advocate for repudiating the system.
The Green Party and its prospective candidates may not be facing arrests, beatings, and further violent violations of civil liberties, but they are doing the grunt work for a free and more democratic society.
Whatever end result the antiwar movement may have in mind, supporting a guy who has been around for the antiwar movement like Nader and supporting the Green Party that is constantly a part of antiwar events (at least in the Chicago area) is a tactic worth employing in order to pull more people into the movement.
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