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But political action is not merely symbolic. It also has consequences. And my view of responsibility (which has led me personally to many sleepless nights for different reasons) is that you must always ask, in anything you do or say, will my actions harm those causes I care most strongly about. Most of the time, for most of us, the answer to this question is easy: most of the time, for most of us, they just won't matter. But when it does matter -- where your words would make the difference -- you should take responsibility for what you do, or do not say.

All that is re 2000. The issue now is 2004. We know again that there will be a close race. And we have seen in this race a much more articulate, passionate and powerful candidate than Nader pushing Nader-like positions: Dennis. And but for the stuff about free trade, I would be the first to say Dennis's views are powerful and right. But we live in a nation which doesn't reward Dennis's views with votes. Nor would they reward Nader's views with enough votes to make him president. Instead, they would reward them with enough votes to make Bush president again.

Doing something that has that effect is, in my view, wrong. And (and this was the point of my post originally), my saying that doing something that has that effect is wrong is not, under any view of the word, "censorship."