By Ralph Nader December 6, 2024 For decades consumer groups have been sounding clarion calls for action against the “silent violence” causing massive casualties that arise from the unbridled power of corporate greed, criminal negligence or indifference. They cite statistical and case studies that the media and lawmakers mostly ignored…
  • @horse_battery_staple
    1•4 days ago

    Fuck you Nader.

    Support and fund local politicians and help already forming political groups. National level politics are a distraction. The GOP already won doing exactly this with the Tea Party.

    Nader, Jill Stein, Jimmy Dore don’t care about the American people they care about holding National office and effecting top down federal change.

    The very people Nader criticizes here have pushed to make it more difficult to make an educated vote today than in the 1930’s. Billionaires know they must kill low level democratic movements and that starts with defunding schools, twisting the narrative in the media and getting anti government politicians in city councils, on local judicial benches, and as state representatives. That is the silent violence and for all of his bluster I never see Nader taking about this.

    • @enbyechoEnglish
      -1•3 days ago

      What’s so funny about people like you is the fact that on the one hand you complain about Nader and Stein and then on the other say we need “help forming political groups”. As in third parties? As in potential spoiler candidates?

      • @horse_battery_staple
        -1•3 days ago

        No, you’re still talking about horse race politics and the national binary. What I’m talking about are city councils, mayors, sheriffs, judges. The prevailing political parties don’t apply at this level.

        National politics are already a sunk cost with the amount of dark money going into them.

        What’s so funny about people like you are that you have a binary lens in which to view the world. And since all is already lost what’s the use in trying.

        Gore lost to Bush in Bush’s Brother’s state in a complicated legal battle and a spurious under count. Nader didn’t factor into it, that’s how unimportant these third party candidates are on the national level.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore

        So again to belabor my point. National elections are a distraction. Vote for candidates that align with your views on the local level. Vote for who you think will do the the least harm at the national level and watch as the candidates you want filter up through the political process.