Greetings Mr. Pearce,

I wanted to write you an e-mail to try to understand why you feel that rather than trying to kindly guide Mr. Kerry towards taking a more progressive agenda, you instead feel it appropriate to disenfranchise voters like myself by guiding Mr. Nader out of the race and thus leaving me and other progressive voters without a real choice in this election.

The fact is that I cannot in good conscience vote for Mr. Kerry. It is not just that I consider him a slimeball, but rather the fact that I do not believe he stands for any of my values and has any chance of really guiding this country onto the path we need to step onto in order to prevent ourselves from slamming into the wall of unsustainability of our society. I also cannot vote, in good conscience, for someone who has been attacking Bush not from the left but from the right on the question of Palestine. The choice for me is not Nader or Kerry, but rather Nader or not voting.

Greetings Mr. Pearce,

I wanted to write you an e-mail to try to understand why you feel that rather than trying to kindly guide Mr. Kerry towards taking a more progressive agenda, you instead feel it appropriate to disenfranchise voters like myself by guiding Mr. Nader out of the race and thus leaving me and other progressive voters without a real choice in this election.

The fact is that I cannot in good conscience vote for Mr. Kerry. It is not just that I consider him a slimeball, but rather the fact that I do not believe he stands for any of my values and has any chance of really guiding this country onto the path we need to step onto in order to prevent ourselves from slamming into the wall of unsustainability of our society. I also cannot vote, in good conscience, for someone who has been attacking Bush not from the left but from the right on the question of Palestine. The choice for me is not Nader or Kerry, but rather Nader or not voting.

I may well agree with you that Nader’s candidacy is a threat to the election of Mr. Kerry as President. But this is where your stance is highly problematic — instead of seeking to deal with this “threat” (how dare Mr. Nader actually dare to excercize his democratic right to challenge the corrupted party of republicrats!) by requesting your preferred candidate actually does something to actually earn the votes of people like myself, you choose to try to pursue a path of unfair disenfranchisement. That path is not very much unlike that of Jeb Bush and Catherine Harris disenfranchising over 50,000 voters in Floriday.

I would really appreciate a response why rather than spending your time trying to get Mr. Kerry to actually earn my vote, you’re choosing to instead leave me with no choice but not to vote at all, as does a huge chunk of the American society. Your actions seem very undemocratic at their very core, and I really hope there is a good explanation for them.

With the warmest regards,

Vladislav Davidzon

P.S. I also want to note that your statistics cited in the article posted on commondreams are flawed because they do not take into account voters who will not vote for Kerry. Nader does bring a very significant amount of voters to the polls who would otherwise never vote.