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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I totally agree with you that, personally, Ralph is a dead loss.
My interest is in the former Dems who switched to Nader in 2000, started to come back in 2004(and were given no credit or respect by the party FOR doing so)and who can be made into a crucial part of a Democratic majority.
As to the RFC...that was loans made to help banks honor the deposits of ordinary, working-class account holders-NOT to protect speculators. It had NOTHING in common with the '08 bailout, which went almost solely to investment banksters).
And you can say "fuck Nader" without automatically dismissing everything the guy has to say-especially where it's possible to use some of those things to help this party(whatever Ralph's personal intent may be) or without collectively dissing everybody who once backed the guy.
And as to getting over it...everybody who is still demanding that the people who voted for Nader in 2000 make a humiliating show of announcing that was the wrong thing to do need to get over it as well. A clear distinction should be made between Ralph, on the one hand, and those who backed him once but could be brought into an alliance with us for the greater good now. That's all I'm saying. Personally, Ralph CAN "pound sand and peddle it walking" as your apparent role model "Mr. Benchley" would have half-drunkenly put it).