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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader appreciation thread. [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)If not, then yes its flame bait.
Bringing up old news in order to poke at an old scab that you know will have a polarizing effect on DU.
All this to re-badmouth an outstanding US citizen that has looked out for consumers for decades. Who stands for ideals that the Democratic party USED to stand for. What many of us wish our Democratic representatives WOULD actually stand for and vocalize.
Not only is Ralphs running not the only reason Bush Jr. won, Harris and the Supreme Court did their part as well, but also the methodical march to the right that the Democrats and the DLC are heading. If Gore had been more firebrand about the Corporatocricy of America, and undue influence in Washington in his campaign, Ralph would have had the wind knocked out of his sails, or maybe even not run at all.
My god, so hypothetically, had Martin Luther King been running because the Democrats had refused to fully support de-segregation, and clung to their previous position on the topic, causing enough of the liberal base to vote for MLK and upset the vote, I suppose you'd be dragging his name through the mud as well.
Believe me, I can understand the ANGUISH. But to bad mouth someone who put himself out there to talk truth to the American people, knowing he would take abuse from both sides, is just wrong.