We owe Ralph Nader an apology
CRaisi sent me a link from Truthdig in which they lament not listening to the brilliance and intellectual depth of such thinkers as Ralph (Unsafe at any Age) Nader and Cynthia (Does my hair make me look insane) McKinney;
They were right. If a few million of us had had the temerity to stand behind our ideals rather than our illusions and the empty slogans peddled by the Obama campaign, we would have a platform. We forgot that social reform never comes from accommodating the power structure but from frightening it. The Liberty Party, which fought slavery, the suffragists who battled for women’s rights, the labor movement, and the civil rights movement knew that the question was not how do we get good people to rule—those attracted to power tend to be venal mediocrities—but how do we limit the damage the powerful do to us.
Of course, all it’s really just a way to absolve themselves of the shit-stain that is the Obama Administration;
The American empire has not altered under Barack Obama. It kills as brutally and indiscriminately in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as it did under George W. Bush. It steals from the U.S. treasury to enrich the corporate elite as rapaciously. It will not give us universal health care, abolish the Bush secrecy laws, end torture or “extraordinary rendition,” restore habeas corpus or halt the warrantless wiretapping and monitoring of citizens. It will not push through significant environmental reform, regulate Wall Street or end our relationship with private contractors that provide mercenary armies to fight our imperial wars and produce useless and costly weapons systems.
They act surprised. The far-Left lives in a fantasy world where the laws of nature and economics don’t apply. Every Left administration that gets in office gets gob-smacked by reality when they discover that their campaign rhetoric would probably drive the nation right into the ocean if applied in the copious amounts that they’ve promised.
At least the partisan Democrats don’t just crouch down and cry in the middle of the street like the hippies do.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Liberals suck
