Ralph Nader - "Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump's Tyranny"

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127. Sounds like conditioning people to believe both sides are the same

"It doesn't matter who is in the White House, Gore or Bush, for the vast majority of government departments and agencies."

"I have indicated that there are 'few major differences' between the two parties, not that there is 'no difference between Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush."

"The only difference between Al Gore and George W. Bush is the velocity with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door."

"It's a Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum vote. Both parties are selling our government to big business paymasters. That's a pretty serious similarity."

"Because it's the permanent corporate government that's running the show here ... you can see they're morphing more and more on more and more issues into one corporate party."

There were many differences between Gore and Bush. Gore was an environmentalist Bush wasn't. Gore would've never privatized social security Bush tried too. Gore was Pro Choice Bush wasn't. Gore supported minimum wage increases Bush didn't. Gore supported the right to organize and the right to strike Bush didn't.


"If someone said those things here, or anything even close, that they would get the same reaction as the mention of Nader does? Of course they would, and from the same members, as well. Ergo, it is the opinions he expressed that people object to, not Nader's campaign and the 2000 election. "

Got to deal with the reality of the times. Citizen United exist partly, because of Nader costing Gore the 2000 election. We may not like some of the things Democrats do, but we also understand these two thing. They are playing by the rules that been forced upon them and to change that they actually have to win elections in sufficient numbers and voting for 3rd party candidates or promoting the both sides are the same narrative like Nader did in 2000 isn't going to help anything.