Democracy could be summed up as options. Totalitarian regimes have elections, but the defining difference between totalitarian regimes' elections and democracy is that in a democracy, the people have a real choice. How arrogant is it to tell someone not to run for office because if they run, your preferred candidate has less of a shot? Maybe having Nader in the race will hurt the Democrat's chances of winning, but so does having Bush in the race and no one is telling him not to run.
Apparently, there is a large contingent of Americans who pay great lip service to democracy until democracy means that their person might lose an important election. So, don't vote for Nader if you don't want to, but for the sake of our American values, do not tell other people they can't.
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