And today's Fuck You goes out to...
...Ralph Nader, who according to Politico is considering yet another run at the Presidency.
Because America, presumably, hasn't suffered enough under the Bush regime he brought into power in the first place.
Who does Ralph Nader consider worthy of praise in the current line-up? Mike Gravel - that's GRA-Velle for those of you who've never heard of the man - and Ron Paul - yes, that Ron Paul, the guy who's against the war and the Patriot Act, but still carries the dubious distinction of otherwise being Texas' most reactionary Congressman. This is political nihilism blended with incoherence.
Ralph Nader is an irrelevancy, still feeding off a time, back when disco was popular, when he had something notable to say. Today, however, with the odium of fathering the Bush administration firmly attached to him, Ralph Nader speaks for nothing and no one other than his own vastly over-inflated sense of self. The tragedy is that he may very well be willing to inflict the price of that towering ego, fed as it is by a sense of his own indispensability - a sense not widely shared beyond the confines of the political ghetto that is the Green Party - on the nation, once again. This because, similar to other cranks, and despite the mountainous evidence piled up, one coffin at time, to the contrary, he still believes that there is no appreciable difference between the two major parties. That's still a fashionable belief, in some narrowly constricted circles; however, it is manifestly, demonstrably, incontestably, untrue, and anyone who believes otherwise, after the abject lessons taught over the last few years, should be committed to a home for the criminally insane.
Many people are able to realize mistakes, particularly catastrophic ones. Ralph Nader has more cause to do so than most people breathing. True to form, it appears that he is unable, worse, unwilling, to do so. That is little more than arrested development; with the unfortunate distinction, however, that this is not his private misfortune. Rather, again, he will attempt to burden the nation with it. And so his private delusions could again pose a threat to the common good.
Precisely.
And there's a vaguely Bushian sense of entitlement, like a dollop of cream on top.
Now wait for the crazies to come out again and bewail and bemoan that the Democrats don't do every single last thing that they want, so they have to vote their precious little consciences, and if that helps get us another republican, that's just too bad - just as long as they can bask in their own purity and feel better than the common trash that actually wants to make things better.
Elitist purity troll pigs. Okay, rant over >
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Many Greens I know personally are fed up with Nader. And I also know some former Greens that after 2000 got fed up with Nader AND the Greens. They aren't necessarily ready to like the Democrats, of course, but they have realized what a dismally stupid mistake Nader 2000 was.
And, for the record, I notice Barack Obama is having some success drawing these dissatisfied former Greens towards the Democratic Party. Dean in 2004 probably helped a bit as well.
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Nader
Nader: All ego, nothing else. His cancer-like ego has eaten up all the useful parts of his personality: his brains, his idealism, his dedication to the environment. All his universe has become is himself. Not the environment, not the Green Party, and certainly not America. He is the only one pure enough. He has transformed himself, in his own mind, into the one and only savior of the Universe and no one else is worthy to lick his boot.
The man is worse than irrelavent. He has become practically a sociopath.