On the 60th anniversary of Unsafe at Any Speed we are asking those who want a stronger democracy to solve current crises to join with us in launching a new and enduring era of activism.
I supported Mr. Nader in every national campaign and voted for him without hesitation. I will vote for him should he give it one more chance... For years, I've considered him to be the best President we never elected. He is the kind of person/candidate that we can no longer find in the mainstream of U.S. politics. I listen to him regularly and am never disappointed.
I wonder how many people that are reading this would not be reading if it were not for Ralph ? How many great inventions and great works of arts are there ? When those great American orchestras toon up and play all that great American music and those bands playing god bless America all born after 65 . How about those
football players going for the touch down or that ace on the tennis court , I bet there is a great surgeon that saved someone's live this week .
Some people never get all the credit they deserve and never do ...
I remember when they blamed him for Bush, which of course they still do. That was a watershed in my own political development.
Anyone on the Green team in 2000 got a preview, in the Democrats’ response to Ralph’s presence in the election, of the lack of any reliable principles among that coagulation of informed, comfortable, intelligent people who called themselves liberals, and what their snide, anti-democratic condescension toward Ralph then portended for the situation in which we find ourselves now. It was the formal debut of what we now know as the liberal class (thanks to Chris Hedges).
The willful failure of this class to acknowledge or understand what Ralph’s candidacy represented (the necessary merger, even then, of principle and strategy), and its significance for the future integrity of popular sovereignty, in retrospect, is revolting to recall. The whole affair is beneath contempt to this day.
I mention this on the anniversary of Unsafe because, even with all that Ralph has given us, it should be remembered that we have been trained to regard him under the questionable insignia of “consumer advocate”, when in reality he was one of the greatest democrats, if not the greatest democrat, we’ve seen since WWII, and probably in the country’s history. During and before the republic’s precipitous decline, he gave us all crucial political instruction, a model of unparalleled, assiduous endurance against all of politics’ slings and arrows, and we owe him an unpayable debt for that as well.
As Coase's Theorem implies, social efficiency can be (temporarily) achieved absent social equity, but inevitably social efficiency should only be obtained via social equity. This is at the core of Ralph Nader's amazing journey taking on GM and others, some of which I remember being in the news when I was a kid.
However, there is a notable difference of then assuming the 2nd Welfare Theorem of Economics is superior to the 1st Welfare Theorem, a fallacy for most anyone seeking to president, or a governor, or members of powerful committees in state legislatures or Congress.
Special interests run the government and the public suffers, and this is true for any elected president or governor. Money talks.
Now just transfer this line of thinking for gun safety, just as there were improvements on the roadway and to the vehicles. It IS a public safety issue!
Obviously, the kind of person who should be the leader of this county. What is wrong with us?
I voted for Nader twice before I knew what a strong environmentalist Al Gore turned out to be!
Frankly, Gore should have picked Russ Feingold as his running mate instead of Joe Lieberman.
gore isn't
I supported Mr. Nader in every national campaign and voted for him without hesitation. I will vote for him should he give it one more chance... For years, I've considered him to be the best President we never elected. He is the kind of person/candidate that we can no longer find in the mainstream of U.S. politics. I listen to him regularly and am never disappointed.
so true, it's the worst that floats to the top...
I wonder how many people that are reading this would not be reading if it were not for Ralph ? How many great inventions and great works of arts are there ? When those great American orchestras toon up and play all that great American music and those bands playing god bless America all born after 65 . How about those
football players going for the touch down or that ace on the tennis court , I bet there is a great surgeon that saved someone's live this week .
Some people never get all the credit they deserve and never do ...
Thank you Ralph for saving my life .
Good luck America have a great day my friends.
Thanks, Mr. Nader. Your work saved my mother-in-law’s life, along with the lives of many others.
I remember when they blamed him for Bush, which of course they still do. That was a watershed in my own political development.
Anyone on the Green team in 2000 got a preview, in the Democrats’ response to Ralph’s presence in the election, of the lack of any reliable principles among that coagulation of informed, comfortable, intelligent people who called themselves liberals, and what their snide, anti-democratic condescension toward Ralph then portended for the situation in which we find ourselves now. It was the formal debut of what we now know as the liberal class (thanks to Chris Hedges).
The willful failure of this class to acknowledge or understand what Ralph’s candidacy represented (the necessary merger, even then, of principle and strategy), and its significance for the future integrity of popular sovereignty, in retrospect, is revolting to recall. The whole affair is beneath contempt to this day.
I mention this on the anniversary of Unsafe because, even with all that Ralph has given us, it should be remembered that we have been trained to regard him under the questionable insignia of “consumer advocate”, when in reality he was one of the greatest democrats, if not the greatest democrat, we’ve seen since WWII, and probably in the country’s history. During and before the republic’s precipitous decline, he gave us all crucial political instruction, a model of unparalleled, assiduous endurance against all of politics’ slings and arrows, and we owe him an unpayable debt for that as well.
Thank you Ralph!
Sending you, Ralph, unconditional love.
Thank you for leaving comments open. . .
And to think my parents had one and we took vacations in it …
As Coase's Theorem implies, social efficiency can be (temporarily) achieved absent social equity, but inevitably social efficiency should only be obtained via social equity. This is at the core of Ralph Nader's amazing journey taking on GM and others, some of which I remember being in the news when I was a kid.
However, there is a notable difference of then assuming the 2nd Welfare Theorem of Economics is superior to the 1st Welfare Theorem, a fallacy for most anyone seeking to president, or a governor, or members of powerful committees in state legislatures or Congress.
Special interests run the government and the public suffers, and this is true for any elected president or governor. Money talks.
Thank you Ralph. :D
Now just transfer this line of thinking for gun safety, just as there were improvements on the roadway and to the vehicles. It IS a public safety issue!