It Turns Out Ralph Nader Is A Living Legend
Democrats and the media made him a pariah for warning about the corporate takeover of America; he was right all along
The ‘democracy gap’ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the ‘least worst’ gets worse. -Ralph Nader
Growing up I wasn’t very political, and when I heard the name Ralph Nader, like many, I thought, “he’s that weirdo who ran for president as an independent or something.”
I have since come to find out that not only was his political platform basically spot-on and profoundly prophetic, the image I had of him was consciously created and fed to me by the media and the Democratic party.
If they would have gotten behind his vision of the country America would be a very different and much more kind, livable place.
Ralph Nader is still out there fighting the good fight and has been a consumer advocate since the 1960s — back when the American public still had a semi-conscious idea that regulating corporations was a good thing.
