Dear, Sabrina - you "can't make this up", but WaPo editors can and do.
Today on Democracy Now!...
Amy Goodwin: We have just 30 seconds but I wanted to get your response. You were just profiled in the Washington Post: I think the headline was "Ralph Nader wary of trump offers to help Joe Biden win." Is that accurate?
Ralph Nader: It's an inaccurate headline, which the reporter has nothing to do with. What I said was that, in a choice between trumpster fascism or Democratic party autocracy, I'll take autocracy because it allows an opportunity for a reversal Fascism and the violent rhetoric and behavior and voter suppression of the trumpsters. And they're just getting underway while they let Wall Street do whatever it wants: they deregulate everything the health and safety and economic protection programs for the American people; they give tax escapes to big corporations now are making money in the U.S and paying virtually no taxes; a whole list of them. It's the perfect corporate State the Franklin Delano Roosevelt warned about in a message to Congress in 1938. You said when private power takes over government that's fascism and so that's what we're dealt with the two-party duopoly.
I'm all for third parties. I wish the Green Party well. Cornell West is by far the most Progressive candidate. He's got the most complete, Progressive agenda in domestic and foreign policy. And let's have a competitive democracy and stop engaging in candidate suppression. The Democrats criticized the GOP for voter suppression, the Democrats are very good about candidate suppression of third party candidates, bumping them off ballots, harassing, them suing them. We got sued a dozen times in a few weeks.
Dear, Sabrina - you "can't make this up", but WaPo editors can and do.
Today on Democracy Now!...
Amy Goodwin: We have just 30 seconds but I wanted to get your response. You were just profiled in the Washington Post: I think the headline was "Ralph Nader wary of trump offers to help Joe Biden win." Is that accurate?
Ralph Nader: It's an inaccurate headline, which the reporter has nothing to do with. What I said was that, in a choice between trumpster fascism or Democratic party autocracy, I'll take autocracy because it allows an opportunity for a reversal Fascism and the violent rhetoric and behavior and voter suppression of the trumpsters. And they're just getting underway while they let Wall Street do whatever it wants: they deregulate everything the health and safety and economic protection programs for the American people; they give tax escapes to big corporations now are making money in the U.S and paying virtually no taxes; a whole list of them. It's the perfect corporate State the Franklin Delano Roosevelt warned about in a message to Congress in 1938. You said when private power takes over government that's fascism and so that's what we're dealt with the two-party duopoly.
I'm all for third parties. I wish the Green Party well. Cornell West is by far the most Progressive candidate. He's got the most complete, Progressive agenda in domestic and foreign policy. And let's have a competitive democracy and stop engaging in candidate suppression. The Democrats criticized the GOP for voter suppression, the Democrats are very good about candidate suppression of third party candidates, bumping them off ballots, harassing, them suing them. We got sued a dozen times in a few weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_bErFF0YKQ&t=1013s