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In reply to the discussion: They did not confirm Merrick Garland because they KNEW the fix was in [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,215 posts)Careful though, you may be alerted on for simply having a positive post about Ralph Nader.
To some it doesn't matter how much they may actually agree with him, or conversely are hard-pressed to find anything they don't agree with. He did the greatest sin anyone could ever do.....he felt compelled to run for President in order to address issues like this.
While other democracies have three, four, sometimes 10 or more parties running, here we are conditioned to think that two is quite enough thankyou. We like choice in every other aspect in life, but anyone that runs as a third party candidate will be tarred and feathered, especially if they dare have even more FDR type Democratic ideas than the establishment Democrats (and the corporate executive dominated DLC at the time), because that is just plain embarrassing. How dare he run on such solid principles!
Ralph is a great man, a brave person, who ran despite the hatred from both the Republicans and the more authoritarian Democratic voters. We need more people like him to push the conversation towards the unbridled truth about the abuse of power and money. It us up to Democrats to stop simply stamping their feet and whine about some other party encroaching on their self appointed territory, and address these same issues and in so doing, make other third parties look redundant.