Reply #25: Again, you show a fundamental lack of knowledge concerning Nader's words [View All]

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Nader told David Moberg of In These Times that he wanted to lead 'the Greens into a "death struggle" with the Democratic Party to determine which will be the majority party.'

Nader has made the "the worse, the better" case in regards to Republicans and the environment. He said that Reagan-era Interior Secretary James Watt was useful because he was a "provocateur" for change, citing the boost in the Sierra Club's membership.

Close to the 2000 election, Nader applied the same logic to Bush himself in a speech Nader gave at Chapman University in Orange, California, according to the LAT: "After lambasting Gore as part of a do-nothing Clinton administration, Nader said, 'If it were a choice between a provocateur and an anesthetizer, I'd rather have a provocateur. It would mobilize us.' "

This is 'ends justifies the means' by definition, and it is 'heightening the contradictions' by definition. Where, exactly, did I put words in Nader's mouth?