Reply #59: Yeah Right On Bro! [View All]

[Warren Stupidity]

If McCain/Palin had won we would still be stuck in Iraq, escalating Afghanistan, pandering economic policy to the benefit of global elites, and no nearer to real universal health care than we were in 1968.

If you cannot understand that Nader's analysis is largely correct, if you insist that we progressives have no point, then you are not interested in discussion or dialog. Nader's prescription for action, a third party effort, remains wrong because of the de facto institutionalized two party system. However, I am not so sure that its wrongness is permanent. If we cannot pry the Democratic Party from its kleptocratic masters, then what exactly is the point of continuing to work within that party?

It isn't about cheerleading our side, it isn't about which side of the duopoly won, it is about effective and meaningful progressive reform. We aren't getting that. We are getting a 3 degree left tilt on the same old shit, and that after a 30 degree tilt towards outright authoritarian rightwing rule. We are losing ground and have been for the last 40 years. Perhaps a different approach is called for?