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.
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.
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.
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 RU-vid 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.
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!
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.
@@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 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.
@@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....
@@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.
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.
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?...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
Nader is a truly brilliant human being. God save all these magnificent beings for all eternity...despite the inevitable destruction of society and planet earth.
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.
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
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.
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...
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 .
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.
Amazing perspective to be bringing to a university. Nice to see student stimulate by all these different ideas concerning this subject matter. Yes I am being ironic and no you had no idea prior to reading this sentence, sentence, sentence, sentence....
Honest, good faith question. Could you point to something, similar vid, article etc, whose content is substantive but you would consider it from an alternative viewpoint? I never went to college so I completely missed the left college bias that has become so prevalent. And reading your comment made me extremely curious on what the content would look like for you to have made that same comment, but unironicly. Appreciate any help.
What happened to all THESE people why is he Now coming out.... where has he been... the progressive people have been under attack by Dems for a long time.
the elite of the world spend their resources to keep their wealth and power. They have turned the Left in to the party of LGBTQ rights to ensure there is not another occupy wall street.
He is certainly incredibly informed about Canada, and up to date. Of course this is from 2015. But the response to this video more or less reflects his critique of the public as corporate controlled. More people are interested in NOFAP. Come to think of it, political activism might be a way of overcoming porn addiction.
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.
Nader was right on the point. He missed talking on the need for a new people's political party. The democratic and republican parties are the parties of the 1%. You can can argue to work within those parties to wrest away control but would take 50 tp 100 years.
+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.
It would take a long time for the left to "wrest away control" from the Democratic party, true, BUT on the extreme right under Trump it was aggregated in less than 4 years!! Actually, the extremist right started in an organized manner over 50 years ago with work done by the Heritage Fdn. ('73), Federalist Society ('82) & the NRA (1871, just to name 3 major groups involved. See the Louis Powell Manifesto or Memo ('71) for the detailed blueprint showing how the far right has done this in an organized, systematic manner. Earlier efforts had coalesced around a visceral hatred of FDR's New Deal policies starting in the 1930's which were promoted up through the LBJ administration. This plus the revulsion to the liberal 60's and everything that decade stood for was such that by the 1970's they were poised to start moving their agenda forward in a more organized manner. This was not a cabal but a confluence of similar interests all moving slowly towards similar goals. Starting in 1980, Reagan moved the neo-con ball forward. It was promoted by the Bushs' and even Clinton felt compelled to support Republican anti-government measures to get reelected.
I just listened to Ralph's conversation about Nuclear Power. I was surprised that he was against it. I have a friend that went to M.I.T. who knew people who studied this. I was told that it is a safe, clean and efficient way of running power. I believe France has had Nuclear Power since 1976. Maybe someone can look into this more?
Ralph is right. But he doesn't speak on the fallacy of religion. That will be the watershed moment, and it won't be coming anytime soon. Until most of the population disbelieves, and says it publicly, we will be stuck where we are. Probably a majority right now disbelieve but they are too afraid to admit it publicly. That's the next step we're waiting for.
I’m looking at a screen right now. I’m educating myself. At least I thought I was. OK, maybe these college kids are looking at cute dog videos. But that’s not all there is available on that little screen. It’s changed my view of the world. I used to not care about politics. I do now. The little screen is what made the difference.
12:50 If you want to go to origins, read Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class. The origins of our current economic system is the basis of that book.
EFFORT is not distributed equally. Why should income be? Only 12% of U.S. adults scored in the highest literacy proficiency levels, and only 9% scored in the highest numeracy levels. While 52% of Americans score below the minimum literacy required for coping with the demands of everyday life and work in a complex, advanced society, and successful secondary school completion and college entry. Gone are the days of a high school dropout getting a job at the car plant making $25.00 an hour tightening lugnuts.
What a backdrop! How about tacking up a beautiful dark purple velvet backdrop? No. Just ugly electrical plastic conduits and an out of place, unused podium? Seriously? For an American HERO??!
