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In reply to the discussion: To believe there's no real difference between the two parties, you must be either lying or clueless. [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)If the Party leadership had stuck to its traditional Pro-LABOR, Pro-Working Class,
Pro-Corporate Regulation roots of FDR and LBJ,
there would have been no Nader.
As much as you would like to believe it,
Nader was NOT some Superman who knocked the wheels off the entire Democratic Party by saying the NAFTA was not a good deal.
Nader was a geeky little consumer activist who simply told the truth about NAFTA and de-regulation.
He told the economic truth, and thereby stepped into a vacuum created by the "Centrist" Clinton Administration.
Without the Rightward drift of the Democratic Party under Clinton,
there would have been no Nader.
Lets place THAT responsibility where it belongs.
NOW, as far as you entire OP,
it IS an excellent example of the Strawman Logical Fallacy.
Nobody, not Nader himself, nor anybody who voted for him, ever believed that the two parties are exactly the same.