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In reply to the discussion: What have Nader, Stein and the Green's accomplished, [View all]hunter
(38,311 posts)because that would mean I've been possessed by the devil.
Don't ever call me a "consumer," them's fighting words. I am a human being. (Also some kind of Luddite and radical environmentalist...)
I bought a new car once when I was young, full of testosterone, and new to a career type job, but I won't make that mistake again. The automobile age was a terrible mistake and I was sort of hoping it would be over by now. Too bad peak oil didn't come true.
Both our family cars have salvage titles. Recycled! (Our kids hated that about me when they were still living at home, their parent's cars too embarrassing to drive...) My computers are diverted from the electronic waste stream and run Linux. My $7.00 a month cell phone similar. No cable, no satellite, no broadcast television. Local ISP, can talk personally to the guys in charge.
Maybe I should worry about meds... because all but one are generic and cheap. The expensive-in-the-U.S.A.-non-generic is Mexican, but so far, so good...
Nader has always been about protecting corporate U.S.A. from their own worst excesses, and even then he wasn't especially skilled at choosing targets. Had he not been a useful idiot to some big money he'd be a nobody.
Back in Nader's heyday I noticed too many of his cult followers voting for Reagan and I'll never forgive that. The Bush fiasco wasn't anything new to that group.
Fuck Nader.