Nader and Buchanan have an amiable history of conversation and debate, so Nader's appearance doesn't surprise me. And as I say, I think it's good, because those are the people he needs to persuade.
I doubt that. There are two groups I believe most need persuading. The first are the vast apolitical and uninformed majority of the non-owning classes whose fate under capitalism is to sell their labor, struggle, be beaten down and suffer; to get tied down in a net of obligations that seem to compel conformity as an obligation to family survival; and to be robbed of the time and energy to imagine a different world. The second are under-50 segments of the educated technical-clerical-teaching classes whose material circumstances may not be much better, but who generally buy into flavors of light establishment ideologies and entertain degrees of denial about the exterminationist outcomes. Older white men (sorry) who already know what they think, who have been following politics for decades and still believe in capitalism (and American historical goodness and Christianist culture), may be willing to join in anti-imperialist or antiwar moves, but otherwise will not be and do not want to be persuaded. One can only hope the majority that outnumbers them in the future (as they are outnumbered today already) will express a progressive prevailing will.
Definitely, we all need therapy of a kind that probably isn't yet practiced.
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Otherwise, like almost everyone, Nader has not yet seen through the economic illusions that mask real-existing macroeconomics. To think he once hooked up with Ron Paul on a four-point platform, the first of which was something antiwar, the fourth of which was a version of Pelosi's pay-go or maybe worse, like a pledge to never increase the national debt.
So, you know, I like Ralph for being real, but nobody's infallible.
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