Truthout Interview With Ralph Nader: "Only the Rich Can Save Us"

[babsbunny]

http://www.truthout.org/1014091

Wednesday 14 October 2009

by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Video Interview

Ralph Nader will always be remembered by his critics as the man whose bid for the White House in 2000 gave us eight years of George W. Bush. The disdain many liberals have for Nader still runs deep nearly a decade later.

But there's no denying the positive impact his activism has had on this country over the past half-century. Without Ralph Nader there wouldn't be an Environmental Protection Agency, an Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a Consumer Product Safety Commission, a Safe Drinking Water Act and so on.

[izquierdista]

1. Positive impact?

Nothing like helping Bush get elected so you can throw all that activism into the shitter.

[blondeatlast]

4. I finally realized why the 2000 election soiled me so on Nader and why I remain so angry..

It's that HE didn't see Bush for what he was. The man who could influence the auto industry did not anticipate the dangers of GWB.

Because of that, I simply can't take anything he says as in my best interest anymore.

It's a pity, really.

[the other one]

7. No. He did say there is no difference between parties

In the sense that they are both run by corporate interests.

[blondeatlast]

9. I know he never said "no difference between the candidates" and that's not what I said.

What I meant is that for a man who could find the danger in a Corvair, how could he have missed the dangers of GWB? Molly Ivins knew...

[peacetalksforall]

2. This is a fascinating idea. For nine years I have exploded in anger at the mention of his

name - I quit my membership in the Michael Moore newsletter. I was so let down by Susan S and Tim. I read plenty about Nader, but I couldn't recover.

The concept he is putting out there could work - it's not up to him. It's up to the people who he mentions in the book.

I know I am someone who is consumed by the now very obvious plan for our country - CORPOCRACY/FASCISM - but we have to know there are some people out there who are very creative and well intentioned who could change things.

OUR'S IS PEOPLE COUNTRY NOT A CEO COUNTRY.

Until I hear differently, I applaud Nader for even approaching this subject.

It's something to hope for.

But, I haven't read the book nor heard comments by those named.

But, just hearing some of the names makes me remind myself, that not all wealthy people are as evil as the Goldman-Sachs, AIG, Enron, Halliburton, KBR and the enemies who who hang off of them.

[JVS]

3. good interview with Nader

[Lisa0825]

5. Fuck Nader. nt

[glitch]

6. Well, with feudalism's renewed popularity, noblesse oblige couldn't be far behind.

Thanks, but I'll take democracy, even if it requires revolution to restore it.

[dysfunctional press]

8. "the man whose bid for the White House in 2000 gave us eight years of George W. Bush."

not really.

even if someone wants to follow convoluted logic to blame nader for 2000- he definitely had nothing to do with 2004.