Raw Story has this story about Ralph Nader’s recent appearance on C-SPAN for 4 and one-half minutes. The article also provides a link to the C-SPAN interview. Nader has some interesting predictions about 2016, toward the end.
Raw Story has this story about Ralph Nader’s recent appearance on C-SPAN for 4 and one-half minutes. The article also provides a link to the C-SPAN interview. Nader has some interesting predictions about 2016, toward the end.
Bring on the mega-billionaires and let them spend their money. I don’t think they’re fooling anyone. Anyone who would vote for a Bloomburg or Trump is probably not clear-thinking enough for a “little third party” anyway.
Ralph Nader has recently had an obsession with the idea that the super rich must come and save us. It has been the topic of his books, it has resulted in him flattering Bloomberg and others in the press, and it seems to be a plan he is pitching for Prez 2016.
I understand where Nader is coming from. Everything is stuck and hopeless. Something exciting and big is needed to “move the chi energy”, or kick the system in the butt in some way.
But, I think it is short-sighted of Nader to think that it can only be the super rich who save us.
I think what saves the day could be a big idea, a bold leader, or a sudden uprising (Occupy-revived, or an occupy that steers more clear of co-optation).
I wish Nader would try to run again. Maybe with the Green Party. Maybe with a different energy. But, have him run, with what he has learned.
Nader made a big splash. He has such power and potential. But, some of his mistakes — aligning with some elitist people, not being willing to register with a third party, being aloof to some cries about injustice, etc — some of his mistakes tanked him.
Why he is giving up “the struggle” and throwing away his own path, and his own foundations, I don’t get.
Rich people don’t get rich be accident. They get rich because they exploit people, or game a system, or suck up resources. And, even when people become rich by luck or inheritance, the money automatically changes them, engulfs them in a certain kind of arrogant culture, the money forces the people who hold it to act differently.
In New York, we thought when Governor David Paterson suddenly and unexpectedly became Governor, miracles would happen. He would be free to take risks, help people, and do what is right. But, regular politics, and the money in politics, sunk him in no time. It is not so easy as one noble person, or one noble rich person.
The rich people are not coming to save the poor. The rich people are not going to wake up and see the light. Their money blinds them.
Everyone has to hunker down and do the work. Everyone needs to focus on the people around them and the work they can do, instead of wasting time appealing to some far away savior, like “the super rich”.
You know, FDR and JFK came from super-wealthy families. IIRC, the Delano family accumulated its vast wealth through the slave trade,
Nah, it looks like it was the Chinese opium trade.
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Have you noticed that much of the left is financed by “mega-billionaire” George Soros?