The Sins of Ralph Nader

[Boojatta]

1. He earned a reputation for himself. What arrogance! While he was busy earning a reputation for himself, the truly great were busy failing. Failing gives people an opportunity to help you and that makes people feel good about themselves. Meanwhile, Nader was busy making people question the wisdom of their consumption choices. Nader was making people feel bad about themselves.

2. He decided to become politically active in a party other than one of the two major parties. Elitist! The vast majority of people cheer on one of the two big parties. Apparently the tastes of the vast majority aren't good enough for old boy Ralph.

3. He caused the Democratic Party to lose the election.

Here is a helpful analogy. Suppose all employees at some company get equal say in the decision of who to hire for an important job. There are two major candidates for the job: candidate A and candidate B.

Now along comes candidate C, supported by only 2.6% of employees.
Now, the lunatic fringe will say that a good voting system should be able to handle the existence of candidate C. No, the voting system is perfect. The blame goes to candidate C.

The moral is: never apply for a job unless you know that you have a fair chance of getting hired. The danger is that the company will hire the wrong applicant! If the company doesn't sue you for throwing a monkey wrench into their decision-making system, then you can count yourself lucky.

In summary, Ralph Nader is obviously an arrogant elitist who should be blamed for the Democratic election loss.

[frylock]

1. frist!!!11

:popcorn:

[Clarkansas]

2. I blame Ralph for saying there was no difference between Gore and Bush

[applegrove]

16. I agree. The differences are huge.

[EFerrari]

3. I'm wondering how this thread contributes to election reform

and why it wasn't posted in GD? :eyes:

[Boredtodeath]

4. I'm wondering

How this thread relates to ANYthing, particularly reality.

[democracyindanger]

6. You've got a point

Nader has very little to do with reality.

[Boredtodeath]

8. As does the OP

Do you REALLY believe a company can sue someone for APPLYING for a job?????

You CAN'T be serious........you're funnin' me, right?

[Boojatta]

11. A question like that makes you sound reasonable.

I hope you're not another one of those arrogant people who are trying to earn reputations for reasonableness.

"Do you REALLY believe a company can sue someone for APPLYING for a job?????"

[Boojatta]

18. Would you like me to look for threads not clearly related to ANYthing

and send a PM of links to those threads so that you can post messages on them?

[Boojatta]

5. Reform is step two. Step one is admitting that there is a problem.

If I may repeat myself:

Now along comes candidate C, supported by only 2.6% of employees. Now, the lunatic fringe will say that a good voting system should be able to handle the existence of candidate C. No, the voting system is perfect. The blame goes to candidate C.

The moral is: never apply for a job unless you know that you have a fair chance of getting hired. The danger is that the company will hire the wrong applicant! If the company doesn't sue you for throwing a monkey wrench into their decision-making system, then you can count yourself lucky.

[EFerrari]

7. How long have you been reading this forum?

lol

[Boojatta]

9. Are you suggesting that this thread doesn't contribute to election reform

because the issues raised in this thread have already been raised enough times and do not need to be raised again?

[EFerrari]

12. No. I was wondering how anyone who has read this forum for more

than three days can possibly suggest that anyone around here doesn't know that a great deal is wrong.

[Boojatta]

13. "A great deal" is rather vague. You specifically said "I'm wondering how

this thread contributes to election reform."

[EFerrari]

14. Not vague at all to people who read this forum.

This Green is adding you to the list of people who waste my time. Have a good journey.

[William769]

10. This is how History will remember Nader.

[BillZBubb]

15. Nader is a self-serving ass.

He equated a President Gore with a President Bush. That ought to be enough for even the dimmest of wits to write him off. Some, alas, can't see it.

Nader is obviously a useful idiot for the right.

[Boojatta]

17. Why should a voter's approval of Nader at the ballot box prevent the voter

from also expressing approval of Gore at the ballot box?

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