Ralph Nader on inequality in the United States

A five-time presidential candidate, Ralph Nader is a Nieman Fellows award recipient and was named one of ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1967. His many books include Return to Sender, Unstoppable and Told You So. He recently contributed to the book Canada after Harper.
Nader’s discussion on inequality in the US is part of the Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS) F. Ross Johnson-Connaught speaker series.

[@stevenyourke7901]

When I was young back in the 1960s and 1970s, Ralph Nader was one of the most powerful political forces in the USA and he appeared frequently on TV. Over the past 40 years, he has been increasingly marginalized and today, most Americans have no idea who he is. The corporation have completely taken over the levers of power. The military industrial complex has taken over the USA.

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

And the citizens have celibrated it all the way.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

So true Steve. Hopefully over the next 10 years this can start being dismantled. Edit: if not 10, maybe 20. Or 40. I don't believe this nonsense can last forever.

[@jimmorrison2692]

When he was on Mort Sahl's show, they were both threatened that they'd be blacklisted from TV, and whoever (executive, probably) said it, meant it.

[@sampsonlittle7368]

I love Ralph Nader.

[@kraka2oanIner]

Criminals are in charge: and two dangerous cults are running the U.S. : democrats and republicans.

[@asbeautifulasasunset]

Thank you Mr. Nadar. You are an amazing example of living a useful life. And you saved so many lives and improved the lives of many, many others. Thank you.

[@jimmorrison2692]

If you find the time Ralph Nader was on The Mort Sahl (another similar hero) Show, your life will improve in that 30 minutes.

[@michaelallen2844]

One of the most eloquent, knowledgable, articulate, orators of our time. Mr. Nader has done more in his lifetime for the "common man" than any other person in the last 70 years. Everyone should listen to every word he has to say, then pick up their personal activism.

[@mehermusic2154]

Amen

[@elviajove8289]

Very well said! Thank you!

[@GrandmaCathy]

And we have to find him speaking in what looks like a basement.

[@kimyoung2748]

@@GrandmaCathy he is being thrifty

[@jameslascaliajr.2181]

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[@patriceortovent3337]

Ralph Nader, a man who use his intelligence in its most useful way to serve the people at large. His contribution in this particular talk is extremely precise and true in its content. A great contribution is made here, adding to few others emerging on KZbin for anyone to have access to. To be ignorant today is a choice, no more an imposition as it was until the last twenty years.

[@111Phoenix777]

I wish that I could go back in time and vote for Ralph Nader every time he ran for president. He would have been amazing, and I think it would have taken our country in a much better direction. We would be in a much better place today.

[@dyingmaisy]

I did vote for him twice and each time I had friends that said I was throwing my vote away. I always responded that it was their vote that was thrown away.

[@briansnc2008]

Remember, a president needs a Congress to enact his wishes most times.

[@111Phoenix777]

@@briansnc2008 I would never suggest that electing one man or woman to office would be some kind of panacea. The beauty of our form of government is the division of power, which helps guard against tyranny. I would hope that our Congress would get onboard with his agenda if not immediately, within 2 to 6 years. On the other hand, I know powerful forces would be very upset, and in many ways, any good faith, progressive would have a target on their back, moreso than even a black president. Not everyone, but a lot of people in the billionaire class, CEOs, bankers, etc. would throw their grandma under the bus if they thought it could boost quarterly profits.

[@rambleon1417]

He probably would have been assassinated if he was elected. The corporate elite wouldn't tolerate the threat he would present to their power and existence.

[@annabell3385]

It's been rigged since Kennedy was shot. He would not have won.

[@barraqali336]

An extraordinary man in every sense of the word! The world needs millions of RN.

[@GaryG63]

What we need are critical thinking , informed voters

[@Dot-Dot-Dash]

I don't understand why more people don't crave listening to Ralph Nader every day . He has so much wisdom and is, even if they seem clueless. kind to all citizens .

[@craighoyer6543]

If Nader had withdrawn in 2000 we would be a happier country. I met him in 1973. I would never consider voting for him.

[@focusedeye]

@@craighoyer6543 How would the country have been happier and why wouldn't you have voted for him?

[@briancase6180]

Why? He's squelched, repressed, suppressed. No main-stream media will have him as a guest. He was de-platformed decades ago. From a first-principles point of view, Fox should be having this man every day/night. But Fox is a fraud; they don't really care anything about their disenfranchised viewers.

[@Dot-Dot-Dash]

@@briancase6180 true, but his ideas are always excellent even now.

[@bford5899]

@@craighoyer6543 dream on. He’s miles ahead of bush and gore. Al gore sold out years ago after running around pretending to be mr climate combatant.

[@mariahocker2415]

Ralph Nader is the most authentic human being I have ever encountered. I don't know him, but I greatly admire him. He speaks the truth.

[@SurprisedAirplane-xs5ge]

Ok

[@worldoftheflies]

Even as a kid I knew Nader was the real deal.

[@Kinkle_Z]

Nader's dad was completely enlightened! "Columbus didn't 'discover' America - he invaded America!" Wow! Had I told MY parents about learning of Columbus, they would have said, "That's nice sweetheart. Did you make your bed?" Typically, successful adults have incredible parents/parent or someone, ANYONE, when they were young, that lit them on fire, as Ralph's father did for him. That's the difference between success and a life unfulfilled. And that's a tragedy!

[@mrsomething2132]

Nader is a great man. Do you know Ralph Nader personally?

[@rcknhrse]

gfys if it wasnt for columbus you woudnt be here

[@mrsomething2132]

baloney, if you believe that, there's no point to reply, but i will.. by the way, yourself is one word, moron.. or are you too stupid to type it out?

[@rcknhrse]

I fit wasn't for Italy you wouldn't be here

[@rcknhrse]

Keep believing everything your Zionist masters tell you

[@YoriYoiHitotachi]

People really need to give this man more respect. You would be amazed at how insightful he is. He gets up there and tells the truth. The problem is, the truth is ugly. So ugly it is hard to face it and see it for what it is.

[@diamondbling1154]

Nick N most of it hidden in plain sight.

[@pragmaticpolitics1413]

“The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those that speak it.”

[@bford5899]

@Eden Maly 🤣

[@pwalker1360]

Voters, when presented between an honest person and a slick liar, will always vote for the slick liar.

[@cullenreynolds745]

The war in Iraq ... Do you have any idea how many children were killed in that war !!! ISIS, ISIS rape camps, dead innocent Iraqis, dead American soldiers, dead syrians, dead yazidis, dead Kurds, untold numbers of migrants suffering to this day living in squalor in refugee camps all so Ralph Nader could make a a postured idealist point staying in the 2000 election. EVERYONE A SMIDGEN OVER A HALF-WIT KNOWS !!! AL GORE WOULD NEVER !! HAVE GONE TO WAR IN IRAQ AND NONE OF THOSE THINGS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. DO YOU PEOPLE SERIOUSLY NOT UNDERSTAND THAT HE'S THE REASON THE ELECTION WENT TO BUSH AND WE WENT TO WAR IN IRAQ !!?? IS YOUR IDEALIST PRIDE REALLY WORTH THE COST OF ALL THOSE LIVES AND SUFFERING !!? SERIOUSLY!?? His entire career of good work mind-blowingly overshadowed.

[@voodooromeo8749]

Mr. Nader, your intellect is beyond most Americans comprehensive abilities. I am so sad for America. Thank you for your lifes work.

[@superman0O7]

America understands Mr. Nader just fine

[@isasooner5]

@@superman0O7 no, many Americans don't know who he is, especially, this generation and the fact that the American media, essentially blacklisted him.

[@kenmcf]

@@isasooner5 I have several Ralph Nader books...I don't recall which one, but I remember that TWO politicians refused to meet with him during their campaigns...Bernie Sanders...and Barrack OBama....they were afraid of something...they did not want to be associated with him...I think they were afraid of losing corporate dollars....I found it both shocking and very enlightening at the same time....

[@chioma3100]

@@kenmcf I didn't know that. The American public is usually behind on the news. I still believe Bernie is the best choice going forward. Tulsi Gabbard too especially her anti-regime change war stance. I greatly admire Mike Gravel and wish a younger me had voted for him before and that he was younger now and wanted to be president. He'd be my number one. I love Marianne Williamson's heart.

[@jeffsimoneaux5968]

He is the David, of David and Golieth…. He is trying to fight corporate America , alone , and Americans should be ashamed that we have not supported this lone light in the darkness of corporate greed.

[@johnlinden7398]

One of the great enlightened and coherent human beings of this Era ! A most profound and illuminating talk ! Our world needs leaders of the quality of Mr. Nader to solve the vexing problems our species has unconscionably brought about by our ignorance and we need to adapt this kind of thinking i to our personal and collective lives !

[@MsKariSmith]

Mr. Nader is one of a kind, this talk was enlightening indeed.

[@PortlandsTransport]

Ralph-unsung hero of the people

[@cullenreynolds745]

Which people are you talking about exactly !? The war in Iraq ... Do you have any idea how many children were killed in that war !!! ISIS, ISIS rape camps, dead innocent Iraqis, dead American soldiers, dead syrians, dead yazidis, dead Kurds, untold numbers of migrants suffering to this day living in squalor in refugee camps all so Ralph Nader could make a a postured idealist point staying in the 2000 election. EVERYONE A SMIDGEN OVER A HALF-WIT KNOWS !!! AL GORE WOULD NEVER !! HAVE GONE TO WAR IN IRAQ AND NONE OF THOSE THINGS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. DO YOU PEOPLE SERIOUSLY NOT UNDERSTAND THAT HE'S THE REASON THE ELECTION WENT TO BUSH AND WE WENT TO WAR IN IRAQ !!?? IS YOUR IDEALIST PRIDE REALLY WORTH THE COST OF ALL THOSE LIVES AND SUFFERING !!? SERIOUSLY!?? His entire career of good work mind-blowingly overshadowed.

[@the-outsider8458]

@@cullenreynolds745 so d'you just copy and paste your one post on every other post? Whatever point you were trying to make is immediately lost on anyone who sees that you've just copied and pasted, basically spamming whatever other posts you've come across. Everyone a smidgen over a half-wit knows that's dishonest.

[@johnfarmer3506]

His greed to get 5% of the electorate thus allowing him to get federal funds cost Al Gore the election. He put Bush into the White House

[@RyanFeatherston]

@@johnfarmer3506 Stop blaming Ralph Nader for George W. Bush and accept the fact that your favorite Albert Gore lost because he was a mediocre at best candidate. Dude couldn't even win his homestate of TN. Ralph isn't greedy, either. What you are doing is Scapegoating as well as Gaslighting. Even your favorite Albert Gore agrees that Ralph Nader is innocent of any wrong doing! Shows what an out of touch neoliberal centrist boomer you are.

[@RyanFeatherston]

@@cullenreynolds745 Then maybe your favorite Albert Gore shouldn't have picked Joseph Lieberman as his running mate.

[@ehand07]

I am proud to say I voted three times for Ralph Nader.

[@111Phoenix777]

I didn't wake up to how great Ralph Nader is until about 2015. I wish I could go back in time and vote for him every time he ran for office.

[@mehermusic2154]

ME TOO

[@mehermusic2154]

@@111Phoenix777 rIGHT oN Joe

[@scythermantis]

I voted for him the first time I ever voted, and really the only time

[@cullenreynolds745]

Are completely out of your mind !!? Ralph Nader overshadowed all the good work of his entire life by remaining in the 2000 election to accomplish what !!?? ... What he accomplished in doing so is called the war in Iraq do you have any idea how many children were killed in Iraq ... ISIS, mass migrations unconscionable amounts of suffering dead American soldiers the list goes on and on because Ralph Nader wanted to make a point of maintaining a third party option they had less chance of winning than you jumping up and touching the Moon. I hope the cost of you maintaining your pride and for the other people responsible for that was worth paying for you... You must feel so good about yourself.

[@victortatevosyan4001]

Just a wanted to say , if you have never heard Ralph Nader speak live I would recommend you do, it will change your life

[@anchorpoint5871]

We miss this kind of man today!

[@moumou3811]

I live in America and Love Ralph Nadar, Chris Hedges, Amy Goodman. The difference between myself and most other Americans is that I traveled and learned to look up and look around and listen. There must be more like me. Don't feel sorry for us Help us to gather and spread the truth the way to life. Ralph Nadar does that for me. My belief system is COMMON SENSE, COMMON DECENCY, FOR THE COMMON GOOD. NOT FOR THE CON MANS GOOD....... taught to me by one good Human Being

[@ericthorfinnson2074]

Me to

[@UtubeAW]

Amy Goodman, sadly, has lost her way.

[@bford5899]

@Brian Damaj 🤣🤣

[@cullenreynolds745]

How dare you mention Chris hedges in that pompous prick Ralph Nader... You've obviously never spent any time in person with Ralph Nader.. The war in Iraq ... Do you have any idea how many children were killed in that war !!! ISIS, ISIS rape camps, dead innocent Iraqis, dead American soldiers, dead syrians, dead yazidis, dead Kurds, untold numbers of migrants suffering to this day living in squalor in refugee camps all so Ralph Nader could make a a postured idealist point staying in the 2000 election. EVERYONE A SMIDGEN OVER A HALF-WIT KNOWS !!! AL GORE WOULD NEVER !! HAVE GONE TO WAR IN IRAQ AND NONE OF THOSE THINGS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. DO YOU PEOPLE SERIOUSLY NOT UNDERSTAND THAT HE'S THE REASON THE ELECTION WENT TO BUSH AND WE WENT TO WAR IN IRAQ !!?? IS YOUR IDEALIST PRIDE REALLY WORTH THE COST OF ALL THOSE LIVES AND SUFFERING !!? SERIOUSLY!?? His entire career of good work mind-blowingly overshadowed.

[@RyanFeatherston]

@@cullenreynolds745 Stop blaming Ralph Nader for George W. Bush and accept the fact that your favorite Albert Gore lost because he was a mediocre at best candidate. Dude couldn't even win his homestate of TN. And Democrats, including your favorite Albert Gore, supported that war too. And the establishment and their talking points have deceived you into overlooking Ralph's accomplishments as a consumer advocate. Ralph isn't a pompous prck, either. You are, though, LOL! In any case, what you are doing is Scapegoating as well as Gaslighting.

[@MePJtheDJ]

The man is a saint. Just imagine if he'd been president. Damn!

[@coreycox2345]

Yeah. Damn, eh, MePJtheDJ!

[@jordankahele14]

Would that same inequality take care of the nepotism in out of pocket cost?!!.....can it take care of the disturbance in today's life at home?.....Wouldn't you think so?...this would save a lot in your pockets!!....is there information at all, available to the public?...

[@johnking7008]

Nader is a saint and a prophet. If he were president he would have been corrupted just like Obama.

[@coocookachoo2806]

They would have assassinated him.

[@mehermusic2154]

@@johnking7008 WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG

[@bridgettholman4074]

God I admire this man!

[@carlosrosas3525]

Nader was WAY ahead of his time. I voted for him in 2000. Don't regret it.

[@jimmorrison2692]

My first vote. If you find the time Ralph Nader was on The Mort Sahl (another similar hero) Show, your life will improve in that 30 minutes.

[@brianjacobsen5762]

You can believe Ralph Nader. Before any Corp Gov.

[@yaweno9555]

What the moderator left out in listing notable characteristics of Ralph Nader was that Mr. Nader had no baggage. It was my understanding that after he published his famous book, "Unsafe at any Speed", GM had private investigators go around digging up dirt on Nader to discredit him. They couldn't find any. Nothing. When I was in college in the late 70's he gave a speech which encouraged me to join a group of students in starting a Public Interest Research Group. One of the biggest takeaways from his talk that year was that he prompted the young audience to pose the question "can I bring my conscience to work" in job interviews. Over the years I learned that asking such questions during the interview was not the best approach to get a job, but keeping that question in mind while researching companies to work for was indeed important. I don't agree with every position Ralph Nader takes, but I have the highest degree of appreciation for him and the work he does. There are very few members of that group alive today and that is quite sad.

[@Juan-ud3if]

Every word chock full of truth and emotion. Poor honest, honourable man.💛💛💛💛💛

[@vivianmerchant5658]

I will just come out and confess I love this great man!

[@mehermusic2154]

i lOVE HIM TOO

[@darrylschultz6479]

ME THREE!

[@GrandmaCathy]

100^

[@GrandmaCathy]

100%

[@cullenreynolds745]

The war in Iraq ... Do you have any idea how many children were killed in that war !!! ISIS, ISIS rape camps, dead innocent Iraqis, dead American soldiers, dead syrians, dead yazidis, dead Kurds, untold numbers of migrants suffering to this day living in squalor in refugee camps all so Ralph Nader could make a a postured idealist point staying in the 2000 election. EVERYONE A SMIDGEN OVER A HALF-WIT KNOWS !!! AL GORE WOULD NEVER !! HAVE GONE TO WAR IN IRAQ AND NONE OF THOSE THINGS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. DO YOU PEOPLE SERIOUSLY NOT UNDERSTAND THAT HE'S THE REASON THE ELECTION WENT TO BUSH AND WE WENT TO WAR IN IRAQ !!?? IS YOUR IDEALIST PRIDE REALLY WORTH THE COST OF ALL THOSE LIVES AND SUFFERING !!? SERIOUSLY!?? His entire career of good work mind-blowingly overshadowed.

[@msmithrandir561]

A Real Hero for the people

[@eemoogee160]

Proud to have voted for this man in 2000

[@111Phoenix777]

This is one of the best speeches I've ever heard my entire life.

[@111Phoenix777]

I know Ralph Nader is drawing from a lot of his books that he wrote for speeches like this, but this speech should be transcribed and published in a book itself. Maybe put other speeches he's given on different topics in there too. This truly is one of the best speeches I've ever heard.

[@unbrnwsh]

Those who don't have the patience to listen to this informative video let me paraphrase a most important point Nader said: "Throughout history regardless of culture, color or any other factor 1% has controlled every society. This is possible only because of the permissiveness of those who are victimized by the 1% to allow this inequality." I would add "servile and shameless permissiveness."

[@coreycox2345]

There have been tipping points where people are not servile, Andrew Weeratne. The French Revolution. Boston Harbour. It seems that it then goes back to the status quo.

[@User0resU-1]

See Howard Zinn 'people's history etc'

[@samuelmullins271]

I do not kiss Mr Nader's ring. Can Ralph Nader be a prophet for only seeing hidden wrong but never conceive hidden potential metamorphosis? Commoners can freely associate to get free from republic sinslavery bondage too. Not even dead-end religious(republic) misplacements are escapable until progressing COMPATIBILITIES forwarding my predestination. Best I trust in Jesus more precise instruction instead of conFused-up foggy plagiarists. I am not a thankless imbecile with PHD.

[@davidmclean619]

@@samuelmullins271 got bible

[@bford5899]

@@samuelmullins271 you are unintelligible

[@vchavez75]

I am 64 and proud of witnessing his life...

[@mariatischler3476]

Mr Nader is the best.! Exellent. Brain and eye opener.! People should wake up.!! Thank you very much from Hungary, Budapest.

[@georgefordham417]

Ralph Nader is a champion.

[@GaryG63]

Than back him up…

[@IvoMiller]

My President. I voted for Ralph Nader. And I would do it again

[@adamhumphreys2430]

Excellent material.

[@maryhalverson5713]

If only today's leaders had a thimbleful of Ralph Nader's noble spirit.

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

there is a reason he and people like him aren't leaders.

[@maryhalverson5713]

@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 - The reason is the Big Club can't tolerate their goodness.

[@tellusnews1721]

First time i heared about Ralph Nader was the turtles movie........1990. Ralph layin the smackdown since the 50s on the corporate swine....get them ralph!

[@wadegoodwin6773]

Why doesn't Ralph get the recognition he so rightly deserves in his home country, the US. God knows folks

[@GaryG63]

It’s the majority of stupid people voting to blame. How else do you explain trump. Stupidly has rose to dangerous numbers globally

[@brandonross400]

Ralph is held out of the media. Before he ran, he was in all the major publications and news outlets. When he ran in 2000 and called out Wall Street and the military, the establishment Dems and all their sympathetic media boycotted him, disappeared him. Only independent media includes, those places like KPFA Pacifica Radio, Democracy Now, places like counterpunch and Chris Hedges and a few others.

[@califinn]

@@GaryG63 lol, actually for all his faults Trump did an amazing job. Biden is far worse.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

@@califinn Biden is a Blue deplorable and 99% a DINO, but you are smoking the ice pony if you would prefer Trump. Move along, dim-servative.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

Any principled independent challenger is effectively shut out. Ross Perot came the closest in 1992 as a third-party candidate. Sanders did extremely well both times but was just barely kept from becoming the winner of the Dem primaries to go up against the GOP candidate for '16 and '20. They have a formidable and well-oiled machine at their command. The corporate Dem establishment aren't about to take Progessive challengers lying down. So far they've been successful. I guess Trump was able to be the outside candidate who won Bec the GOP didn't try to shut him down in '16.

[@boeingdriver29]

What a champion of humanity. 👍

[@romlyn99]

Walmart - underpays their workers - bans unions - and helps employees to sign up for food stamps. Basically every year - Walmart's low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing. This is a large corporation letting the government take care of what it should take care of... but it is legal and it is just one example.

[@steppenwolf3252]

While we gave corporations 1.5 trillion dollars in tax breaks

And these hardworking underpaid workers are demonized by the govt, media and even average joe's as freeloaders

[@mattja52]

@@steppenwolf3252 And they say, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work hard! You're lazy!

[@Koevid-IVFPandemieAngstPornoNO]

Wage slavery s.cks anyway.

[@Bob-fz7pd]

Go Wal-Mart. Thank you for what you do. At his core Nader is an evil man.

[@RyanFeatherston]

I was just a kid in the year 2000, but if I had been old enough to vote that year, I would have proudly voted for Ralph Nader.

[@johnnytocino9313]

I did vote for him. I know it prob helped the facists and hurt the dems. So what. I had a chance to vote for a person who actually deserves to be in office

[@RyanFeatherston]

@@johnnytocino9313 It didn't help the fascists and hurt the Democrats.

[@GrandmaCathy]

@@johnnytocino9313 1000%!!

[@jimmorrison2692]

If you find the time Ralph Nader was on The Mort Sahl (another similar hero) Show, your life will improve in that 30 minutes.

[@moranmike36]

Ralph Nader is correct! Many thanks!

[@stevenlewis4385]

Ralph makes me proud to be from Connecticut.

[@josephsomers2858]

Ralph Nader has relatives in Canada and spent many vacations in Canada as a young man ...Canada is basically the same as the USA in much Of what Mr. Nader is speaking about.

[@marlenesoifer7219]

I voted for this man speaking when he was running for president

[@IvoMiller]

So did I

[@geoffreynhill2833]

When Bernie Sanders recently copped out of the Presidential race he confessed to a friend he didn't want to end up like Ralph Nader. How wrong could he get?

[@ahopefiend1867]

But doesn’t Bernie have more influence than Ralph Nader? And he is pushing to the left on issues like climate change, Medicare etc. I completely understand. There is no way to fight the powers alone. You just need many of them.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

@@ahopefiend1867 I too like Bernie but I'm not optimistic about the Democrats. PS: Catch up on Chris Hedges if you haven't already.

[@ruffdawgg]

Ralph should be our president. People claim that they want something different then they vote for the same party over and over

[@waltergoring8428]

What a genuine person. I wish the Yanks would vote for a guy like this. Would be a different world

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

The shareholders and corperations would never allow it.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

He might try again in '24. I certainly hope so. It's near impossible for a good person to win a seat of power in the Mega Corp States of America, but we have to keep trying.

[@IvoMiller]

I voted for you Ralph Nader. You are still the Best President we didn’t Get. It’s a SHAMELESS Society

[@myprincessa2253]

I love this Man 🙏

[@simbad909]

In a god fearing world there would be no need for good ppl like mr nader to do what he does ..but as it is ppl like mr nader thankfully do exist and are needed

[@robertsias7107]

Corporations are a monster to the fabric of American society

[@garyhughes7518]

Free Julian Assange

[@beatrizithurralde3150]

I admire you. You awake people's mind. Thank you

[@madeleineswords704]

Following a comprehensive, thououghly researched, history of the man's performance..evaluated by Mr Nader summarised thus:~ Stephen Harper is a Corporation mascerading as a human being" This is the sheer genius of the man!!!

[@charmainbrown7201]

We also need to introduce protection for whistleblowers, at the state, federal and international levels. Now, a whistleblower becomes marginalized forever. That should not be. Thousands of good people are forced to do dirty deeds, and if they want to eat ,now or ever, they had better do it, regardless of their conscience. We need to actually protect people whose conscience force them to "tell the truth about practices of cheating employer.

[@coreycox2345]

I love this. Also, loved "Deer Hunting with Jesus." Also, when a person tries crossing out and amending a small print contract, that could get a puzzled response of "You can't do that." Why not? I won't pretend to have won that battle.

[@jimmorrison2692]

If you find the time Ralph Nader was on The Mort Sahl (another similar hero) Show, your life will improve in that 30 minutes.

[@JagadanandaDas]

"Stephen Harper is a corporation posturing as a human being."

[@thegrimmer]

What a singular man in US history

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

‘If you don’t aggregate, you don’t have a movement-you have to aggregate.’

[@butchmitch731]

50% of our wealth to the military...100 years ago General Smedley Butler outlined the problem and proposed three simple solutions, in his all but forgotten book titled "War Is A Racket".

[@sigurdbattenberg1523]

I'll look for that book thanks for the heads up

[@injusticeanywherethreatens4810]

That quote at the end by Eugene V Debbs just summarizes all of humanity. Ya'll could have anything you want . ANYTHING! But it seems you don't want anything at all.

[@albwilso9]

I agree with Romeo. don’t be sad though, get active to change things!!!

[@joerob5917]

This is the man Bernie wasn’t trying to be like? All I see is a moral man who has convictions

[@kevinpoole4323]

Brilliant Brother a Shining Light of Hope

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Still great after all these years.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Years ahead of his time. (Now our time.)

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Born Winsted, Connecticut, 27 Feb 1934

[@sstarklite2181]

$400 a week just for daycare. Families can’t afford that! Corporate welfare is the worst thing ever, but most people just complain about mothers. Thanks Ralph, for constantly bringing up these topics. We need great leaders to rise up! “Stephen Harper is a corporation masquerading as a human being.” 1:07:26 People yell at me that I’m naive for saying eliminate all weapons and military and vehicles, because someone can have 5 guns hidden, but I tell them STOP WORRYING ABOUT THE WRONG THINGS! They can’t see the IDEA of eliminating millions of wage jobs to see that I’m saying we need to destroy capitalism before it destroys the whole EARTH.

[@batgirlp5561]

Nader was run out of the Democratic party, labelled a crackpot. I'm so sorry I believed them. This is the first I've ever heard him speak, he's brilliant.

[@JeepCherokeeful]

Run out, run in he’s a snake oil salesman of the highest order;( All these problems in America and no real solutions are offered. Typical lifelong politician. We should be asking for a refund of his salary. He’s lost the war, we live that reality everyday.

[@timtam2126]

He is awesome 👌👏😎

[@l23918]

Such powerful words. This should be on braodcast. Every day

[@domingodeanda6113]

11-30-2021, that was pretty damn good, thanks.

[@bford5899]

Columbus never actually set foot on American soil

[@bipolarbear9917]

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” - Frederick Douglass (West Indian Emancipation speech' at Canandaigua, New York on August 3rd 1857)

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

Beautiful words, and absolutely true.

[@bipolarbear9917]

@@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999 Yes, Frederick Douglass a truly amazing man. Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 - February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

[@earthstewardude]

I wish half the people I run into every day were half as bright as Ralph Nader!

[@Batheify]

GOD bless you Ralph

[@isisroy2828]

What a lovely talk

[@rorschach3920]

Ralph did it again

[@evelynramos445]

Sound of reason Ralph Nader!

[@hwarchitect]

National treasure.

[@SelfTaughtArtist1]

It only took KZbin 5 years to recommend this video….

[@hikeoganessian9729]

In school, we learned a song..We all are praising Columbus today, that great young dreamer who lived far away, then sang on and on of his wonderful deeds...

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

Another person of true principle. It's a shame people of real conscience have so far been unable to crack the hermetically sealed chambers of true power in the US, but we cannot afford to stop trying. Perhaps he will consider running in 2024! Damn I hope so. Sooner or later this corporate totalitarianism in the US WILL end and must end, the only question is, how many more will die and/or suffer needlessly until that happens??? Edit: changed a word

[@isidoreaerys8745]

What I would pay to enter the timeline where this man won.

[@johnfarmer3506]

What would I pay to enter a timeline where this idiot never ran for President and then G. Bush would not have been in the White House and 9/11 would never have happened.

[@prose8297]

@@johnfarmer3506 you probably think Bernie is to blame for Trumps win too smh

[@johnfarmer3506]

@@prose8297 Bernie compromises Nader did not. He put Bush into the WH because he wanted the federal funds that come with 5% of the vote

[@RyanFeatherston]

+Jonathan Farmer Stop blaming Ralph Nader for George W. Bush's victory in 2000 and accept the fact that your favorite Albert Gore lost because he was so shitty that he couldn't even win his homestate of Tennessee.

[@RyanFeatherston]

+Jonathan Farmer Ralph isn't an idiot, either. You are, though. LOL!

[@baja1988_Texas]

Not having health insurance is not the same as not having health care.

[@patriciagriffin1505]

Nader is a responsible “politician” who cares what happens to what the corporation the “ least “ of society. He wants the best for all of us and no other politician in Congress today is able to say this as there’s evidence to the contrary. It doesn’t matter if they confront CEOs or write bills that never get passed.. not one of them as the faintest idea what the US population deserves or wants

[@johnfarmer3506]

He put Bush into the WH. he is not responsible.

[@RyanFeatherston]

+Jonathan Farmer Stop blaming Ralph Nader for George W. Bush's victory in 2000 and accept the fact that your favorite Albert Gore lost because he was so shitty that he couldn't even win his homestate of Tennessee.

[@ericclaey2243]

There isn't a single person in the world that is actually equal in talent, equal in work ethics, or equal in intelligence. So, in many ways, equal rights is ridiculous. But, everyone should be able to apply for a job, get equal pay for equal work, or have friends forever, but no one should have the right to keep them, if they don't give the effort to keep them.

[@steppenwolf3252]

Everyone is equal in that they have something to offer. Give the profits to the workers. They earned them

[@delprice3007]

I should have voted for Nader, he's better than the better worst option from the duopoly.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

I love Ralph. I remember voting for him for president in 2000

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

2004, rather

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Err,.maybe 2k and 2k4

[@oskarfabian5200]

Great speaker. s////////

[@anderslarsen4912]

There is no conspiracy. Just a confluence of interests, none of which happen favor ordinary citizens (ie. consumers)

[@jameskennedy721]

Its a recent trend to think right wing fantasy when you say the word conspiracy . But study the 1960's assassinations . Learn about the Gulph of Tonkin . Learn about the sinking of the battleship Maine . Followed by the invasion of Cuba . Study the plan called Operation Northwoods - also seeking control of Cuba . Of course conspiracies exist . 2 guys robbing a bank is a conspiracy . Its not paranoia if a whistleblower tells the press about activities that have been kept secret for years . Its information . Do some research and stop being stupid .

[@peterhardie4151]

My brother is a literate, left wing, politically engaged, university graduate from the UK, he doesn't know who Ralph Nader is. Its very sad.

[@4OHz]

We forget that Eisenhower’s statement was edited from “The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex”

[@sheilayungk7815]

I wish I would have known about Ralph Nader when he was running for president. I would have voted for him.

[@josephsomers2858]

Did Ralph Nader Not say? It matters "NOT" which Party REPUBLICAN or DEMOCRAT one votes for both parties are Totally owned and Controlled by the Corporates Elate' Money and you as a mere citizen matter NOT until Election day. then for but "ONE DAY" only

[@grannygotcha9809]

Ralph, when I was young in the 60s I was totally going ho on Woman's Lib. Boy, that was my one and only passion and I was dam good at it. Now, since dawn broke in Marblehead, I realize how we were minipulated by this scummy govt. We did their dirty work. You just reminded me of it when you quoted " 400.00 a week for day care"....Life actually worked before it took two incomes to survive. I am so very sorry and so ashamed of being a govt. Pawn. Boy, we made their day, didn't we? Then the trio of evil finished the job. Regan, Bush and Clinton. That trio did us in completely. That's when I started to wake up. Believe it or not my middle school son ( who read communist newspapers, delivered to our home.....scarey) Now I'm awake and do nothing about it but read and bitch. God bless you and Chris. Two answers...two leaders.

[@evelynramos445]

I voted for Ralph Nader made sense as favoring candidate for president.

[@rohitpwilliams3033]

Some voices are prophetic., it may take many years maybe decades for profound and visionary ideas to be grasped by the masses and 'become a material force' to bring about needed change in societies. As we celebrate visionaries of the past, so will future generations do.

[@sstarklite2181]

“If the universities aren’t free, that’s a tremendous loss to society.” Every week in the USA 800 people die because they can’t afford health insurance to get treated! 1% of wealthy people have equivalent to the bottom 95% 80% make less now than in the 1970’s Ralph Nader is amazing. And his brain is still so sharp. Most parents always feel completely overwhelmed at raising kids, and some ignorant people say, “it’s easy to raise kids, anyone can raise children.”;So I’ve said “then why are there so many books and magazines and stuff that gives them advice?” No it’s not easy, it’s very difficult, it’s a minute to minute hair-raising experience about “what should I do about this, and what should I do about that.” It’s difficult, and people let TVs do it to make life easier. But all advertisements and most of television needs to be eliminated ASAP. There aren’t enough fun things for families to do together that’s FREE since most families are very poor and can’t afford to go anywhere or do anything together. (Having children actually causes lots of divorce. Most people should have just one child or none, especially looking ahead to THE END OF WORK! Automation will eliminate all the work soon, and unless we end capitalism soon, the future will go back to “hard, brutish and short” for everyone. There should be equal wealth worldwide.

[@truthstarved]

I Voted for Nader as a progressive alternative to the Davos aligned candidate, Al Gore. Government regulation of the transnational corporate community is critical to the task of preventing corporate capture of representative government at home and abroad. Corporations should not be allowed to limit speech in what has become the global public sphere (i.e. the internet). The transnational global community, led by silicon valley, are now collaborating to police all opinion that does not comport with their own ambitions and those whose political careers they fund.

[@lepidoptera9337]

So how did that work out for you? :-)

[@truthstarved]

@@lepidoptera9337 Fine as it was in keeping with my conscience! And you? The Lesser of two evils perhaps?

[@lepidoptera9337]

@@truthstarved Now you are just making a fool out of yourself. Please grow up and learn to admit your mistakes, child.

[@truthstarved]

This coming from a person who names their avatar after an order of insects... nuf said

[@lepidoptera9337]

@@truthstarved You don't find butterflies and moths pretty? I do.

[@dennisglenn9475]

It's kinda weird that UofT put Ralph Nader in a bomb shelter to give his talk.

[@bigstuff52]

This guys in his mid-80s...Holy shit