Bernie Sanders has very similar flaws.
Both can be especially tone deaf about civil rights issues. They think these are mostly economic issues. Again and again they are "color blind," as are many of their supporters.
My mom used to use Nader as an example of someone who "worked within the system," especially when she was feeling alarmed about my own dumpster diving and other mischief. She saw Nader as a "successful" activist. I was just trouble, maybe like her own dad was trouble. (As a child my mom saw her dad beat up by the cops for protesting the internment of their Japanese neighbors.)
The problem is the system is broken, and everything Nader did merely postponed the final reckoning. He kept saving the system from itself, keeping the world safe for straight white guys, and here we are, first with George W. Bush, and now with Trump, with the system collapsing around us.
The Coronavirus is just a harbinger of things to come. Climate change, income disparities, and racial inequalities will bring worse. We will need competent leadership to simply survive as a Republic, let alone prosper.
With GWB and Trump we've experienced firsthand the damage venal incompetent leaders do.
With Obama we saw what a competent respected leader who understands civil rights issues can accomplish.
Biden and Harris are respected and competent leaders who clearly understand civil rights issues. As a straight white man, Biden didn't at first, but he has listened and learned.
AOC clearly understands civil rights issues.
I don't know what Nader has to offer any of them.
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