Ralph welcomes Professor Elizabeth Burch to talk about her work researching how a certain mechanism in the civil justice system called Multi-District Litigation (MDL) is undermining your constitutional right to have your day in court. Then, Professor Jane Hall stops by to discuss the state of the media in her new book, “Politics and the Media: Intersections and New Directions.”
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“If you don’t protest, if you don’t demand, you’re gonna get ignored.”
-Ralph Nader
You have also said politicians want our votes more than big money.
Since 2015 I have been asking you to address One Demand, a way for citizens to work together to demand that politicians run small donor campaigns in order to get our votes. You said on Washington Journal (10-24-2018) you would have me on the Radio Hour to discuss One Demand.
The only protest I can do is commenting here. That has been ignored.
So let’s make it a demand.
I demand that you discuss One Demand with Prof. Herman Schwartz and the effect One Demand could have on gerrymandering.
Gerrymandering works best when elections are predictable. The two party system with both parties controlled by the big money interests is what makes elections predictable.
Just 10% of 2020 voters participating in One Demand in 2022 can upset the predictability of the 2022 elections.
In the primaries in districts above the 10% national average a small donor candidate could win in the primaries.
In the general election in 2022 a small donor third party or indeoendent candidate could take enough votes away from the candidate that the district is gerrymandered for allowing the token candidate to from the other Current Major Party to win or make it very close.
This would expose the vulnerability of gerrymandering and encourage more citizens to participate in 2024 putting more districts in doubt.
As you said to members of the Congress Club: You have your marching orders.
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What do you think of the vaccine makers (which include Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson) having immunity from lawsuits for at least two years, and which will probably be extended forever?
Can you have a program about that?
Thank you for all you do!
Oh, that’s interesting (and somewhat frightening). Obviously, they requested that due to the speed with which they developed the vaccines.
My “Clean Water Act” lawsuit lasted 20 years and was never granted a trial because the defendant spent millions deferring it. Sadly our oceans are dying as a consequence causing the greatest calamity the world will ever know as billions will starve from toxic marine micro-plastic disrupting the critical ocean food chain.