Sorry – there’s just no other way to put it.
Look, I’m all about freedom of choice. I know the Green Party wants their voice to be heard. But when you run a candidate who will pull votes but has no chance of winning, the only thing you accomplish is looking like a spoiled brat who doesn’t care how the country is impacted.
We cannot risk another four years with a Republican hawk in office. We cannot risk another four years of a government that sees no problem with manipulating the public’s emotions, keeping them terrified of a threat that doesn’t exist.
Nader has the power and influence to make real changes but not on his own, not as an unelectable spoiler. Sometimes the best way to effect change is from the inside of the establishment. Maybe if he would change his tactics and work from within rather than from the fringe, he would be able to make some of his visions into reality.
Tilting at windmills may be played for romantic effect, but Don Quixote would make a dangerous leader.
Blogged with Flock
I can’t believe he is doing this again. He is not an activist, he is enabler of the GOP.
Couldn’t agree more. Thank you for the article.
I have a demented older brother who has a Nader ’08 sticker on his car. I told him Nader is an asshole. When he challenged me, I googled “Ralph Nader is an asshole” and came up with 314 hits. Yours was one of the best. Thank you.
Btw, you get more than a thousand hits if you google “Nader” and narcissistic sack-of-shit.