On Sep 23, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> The closer democracy got to Ralph, the less he liked it.
Face it. The US political system is plutocracy, not democracy. Always has been. Ralph Nader knows that better than anyone, having consistently experienced being denied such elementary democratic rights as ballot access and participation in national debate. Nobody in national political life is close to his equal as an advocate for democracy and opponent of corporate plutocracy.
His new book, as described, seems like a clever illustration of the program of a real democratic movement. In the absence of such a movement--thanks to all the liberals, labor skates, and conformist leftists who gave us (most recently) Clinton, Obama, et. al., as lesser evils to even more stupid plutocrats--Ralph presents as historical fiction an illustration of his program as realized by the only people with the authority to do so, a fictional group of enlightened plutocrats doing what, in real life, they had obviously no desire to do. A new way to make his consistent point, so difficult for Dumbocratic leftists to grasp, the the US is a liberal plutocracy, not a democracy.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
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> Herakleitos of Ephesos