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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat [View all]limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)He ran for President. That's it. That's what he did.
I think maybe the hatred is rooted in Democratic Party loyalists saying:
"NOBODY IS TO CHALLENGE US FROM THE LEFT !!! BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE IT! "
We should find a way to incorporate Green/Left ideas into the political debtate in a constructive way. Instead of telling it to shut up and get lost. Nader's views are not extreme at all. They are very mainstream, but they present a challenge to corporate power. I think it's pretty telling that the Democratic Party is not able to digest that viewpoint.
I've been a Democrat at some times but right now I would rather call myself independent because the Dems keep getting dragged further to the corporate right, and they exclude the Greens, Labor, and the left-wing viewpoints from their debates and in the way they govern.