Your food is safe, a seat belt saved your life, a close friend is alive because of an airbag, your children drink clean water, the toys your grandchildren play with are safer, the air is cleaner, the open space is still open. Who did this? Was it the market? Was it Congress? Was it a corporation? Was it the Supreme Court? Was it 'truth justice and the American way?' Hm, maybe a little bit of that. Much of it grew out of the efforts of one man, Ralph Nader. Amazing, huh. While some blame Nader for Gore's loss, Florida's ballots and republican control, along with the corporate wing of the Supreme Court settled that election. Gore also suffered from the same ailment that Romney possessed, inauthenticity.
The interaction of Nader Raiders and government has had an odd consequence, while America praises individualism of the kind Nader demonstrated, corporate America only cares about profit and the power it buys them. GM going after Nader over car safety proved a large mistake. Instead the enemy becomes not the concerned individual, but the entity tasked with enforcing a good one person brought to society's attention. Today through the concerted effort of corporate propaganda, the government is the problem. The discussion must never focus on public good. Corporate exploitation of tax law, regulation, or the environment has created a wonderful distraction. The individual remains sacrosanct in American folklore; Government is now the bad guy.
A few of Nader's achievements: Ralph Nader's Achievements -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008
([ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fbIJ-2IqFc]An Unreasonable Man (Ralph Nader) - YouTube[/ame])
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw, 'Man and Superman'
Ralph Nader Documentary, An Unreasonable Man
The interaction of Nader Raiders and government has had an odd consequence, while America praises individualism of the kind Nader demonstrated, corporate America only cares about profit and the power it buys them. GM going after Nader over car safety proved a large mistake. Instead the enemy becomes not the concerned individual, but the entity tasked with enforcing a good one person brought to society's attention. Today through the concerted effort of corporate propaganda, the government is the problem. The discussion must never focus on public good. Corporate exploitation of tax law, regulation, or the environment has created a wonderful distraction. The individual remains sacrosanct in American folklore; Government is now the bad guy.
A few of Nader's achievements: Ralph Nader's Achievements -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008
([ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fbIJ-2IqFc]An Unreasonable Man (Ralph Nader) - YouTube[/ame])
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw, 'Man and Superman'
Ralph Nader Documentary, An Unreasonable Man