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…
  • @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.