Ralph Nader on the futility of running as a third party candidate in the corrupted US political system dominated by the two corporate-funded major parties: “I was wrong and Bernie Sanders is right”.
Nader argues on the basis of his own experience that tens of millions need to be educated and moblilized against plutocratic control of electoral politics before any meaningful social change will be possible, and the only way to presently begin that process in the US is through the Democratic party. “Sanders gets to participate in televised primary debates, widely covered and commented on by the mainstream media”, Nader argues. “Sanders has demonstrated the relative weakness of the corporate Democrats and their major loss of trust among the people, especially the young”. “Perhaps after the comparative success of Sanders’s campaign, this state of affairs will invigorate more courageous candidates to follow his lead in challenging establishment, commercialized politics”, he writes hopefully. The plain truth is that until now, for whatever reason, nothing has shaken the confidence in the Democratic party of most trade unionists, the black community, and activists in the various social movements - not enough for them to want to leave it, and even the most effective insurgent campaigns for reform within it have always fallen short. > https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/25/ralph-nader-why-bernie-sanders-was-right-to-run-as-a-democrat/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
