Ralph Nader wants liberals to back Rand Paul. Don't do it.

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25. Bill Sher's alternative (in the rest of the article) is for us to work with Corporations....

(As I recall we've bailed out Wall Street and Big Corporations and that led austerity for the rest of us but big bonuses and profits for those bailed out. Bill Sher thinks we need to work with corporations to achieve our goals. He feels liberals are currently agitated over income inequality but that it's not particularly important in long term goals. So it seems that Bill Sher's agenda is a contrast with what Nader proposes. Just thought I'd put out the rest of article in fairness.)

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Snip from the rest of the article the OP Posted:

As I observed in the New York Times following the Supreme Court's upholding of ObamaCare, "When corporations are divided or mollified, reformers can breathe. The president can be heard. Business owners can be convinced that they will remain profitable. The dim prospect of perpetual gridlock can be trumped by the allure of regulatory certainty."

Nader wants to scrap this long, if quiet, history of liberal success that has built the pillars of modern activist government in favor of prioritizing a civil libertarian agenda. His strategy makes sense if you think smashing the NSA is more important than saving the climate or feeding the hungry. I suspect most liberals would not make that trade.

There's nothing wrong with forging temporary, limited partnerships with whoever is willing to play ball at that moment. You can work with libertarians against corporations on global trade today, and cooperate with corporations against libertarians on funding infrastructure tomorrow.
But Nader's vision goes beyond ad-hoc coalitions. He wants to permanently side with government-hating libertarians over government-accepting corporations. That may have superficial appeal to liberals currently agitated over income inequality, but it's not the strategy that helped liberals in the past century build the social safety net, reduce poverty, and avoid another a Great Depression.