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**The only candidate who was booed louder than Clinton at Saturday's presidential debate was the unlikely left-winger Dennis Kucinich. He made the mistake of aping one-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader, who regularly attacked the Democratic leadership as a bunch of sellouts. "Why don't people vote?" Kucinich asked, rhetorically. "It's because they don't think there is much of a difference between the two parties."**
Dennis Kucinich is not an "unlikely" left-winger, he was the *only* left-winger at the Kosfest, which seems to have been dominated by people who put loyalty to the craven and corrupt Democratic party above loyalty to their country or leftist principles. It is sad the degree people who ought to know better by now will go to bullshit themselves. There may be differences between the two parties, but at this point in the game, they are differences of degree, and not of substance. Corporate plutocracy and war with abortion rights vs. corporate plutocracy and war with gun rights, is about the difference as far as I can see. On most major issues, the majority of Dems, particularly Clinton, have been in bed with the Republicans. They are indeed sellouts.
