Ralph Nader recently published a 733-page book, “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us”, and he is touring the nation to speak about it, answer questions, and sign copies of the book. The work is fiction and imagines a scenario in which a Republican-majority Congress, and a Republican President, signed into law various bills making the type of reforms that Nader has long worked for.
The key to the outcome is that a group of retired billionaires who support these ideas had decided to work together and use all their money, and their knowledge of how Congress works, and their knowledge of how to get bills passed, to this end. Among the techniques they use are the creation of a new political party, the Clean Elections Party, which ends up winning 17% of the seats in Congress and holding the balance of power in Congress. Nader was in San Francisco on October 3 and is in Portland, Oregon, on October 4. For more about the schedule, see the book’s web page, here.
There will be a new party along the lines of the “Clean Elections Party” – I predict. In reality, not fiction, it will be created by the people and will replace the Republican Party as the “second” party in this country. It probably will be called the Progressive Party.
It would really be nice to see the honorable Ralph Nader as part of the effort. I do not think that the Party should run anyone against President Obama, though. That would be ultra-left, counter-revolutionary, and downright stupid, actually. It should wait until the 2016 elections to field a slate for president and vice president.