“The total support of the military-industrial complex and empire by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is staggering,” Ralph Nader tells Reason TV. “Everybody has an equal right to run for election. We’re either all spoilers of one another, trying to get votes from one another or none of us are spoilers. We’re not second-class citizens because we’re a Green Party candidate or a Libertarian candidate….The brass of these two parties is they control the election machinery so they keep you off the ballot, harass you, file a lawsuit, delay you, exhaust you.”
Nader’s latest book is Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State.
The longtime consumer activist, recidivist presidential candidate, and several-time host of Saturday Night Live talks with Nick Gillespie about what he sees as a new libertarian-progressive attack on crony capitalism, whether GM cars were ever any damn good, and why the Democrats still wrongly insist that he cost Al Gore the 2000 presidential election. Oh yeah, and the article of his Reason published back in the early ’70s!
It’s a wide-ranging, spirited, fun, and at times contentious conversation.
About an hour long. Produced by Joshua Swain.
Transcript and downloadable versions at http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/06/11/ralph-nader
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Antonio Garmsci says
December 10, 2015 at 2:08 AMFuck Reason TV, for no reason.
Ted Apelt says
December 10, 2015 at 2:27 AM"If we set aside our disagreements, we can finally get something done." Very well said!
fusion451 says
December 10, 2015 at 3:18 AMNadar is an odd duck he torpedoed Gores presidential bid with money from the republicans allowing Bush to destroy the country in debt and war.Used to be a big hero of mine
Jeremiah Wilson says
December 10, 2015 at 3:18 AMmany many libertarians and progressives alike are bent on stubborn indoctrination and principles regardless of the facts of what america faces today. this interviewer is a douche. hes not bending one bit. typical of a very libertarian philosophy. progressives are just the same. and until both sides learn to give up a little indoctrinated principal the corporate wall street fat cats and thier bought/sold democrats and republicans will keep on chugging along!!!
Jeremiah Wilson says
December 10, 2015 at 3:36 AMalthough ron paul and bernie sanders have vastly polar opposite views they are outside the box and would/could tear down the status quo of corporate domination of our lives. neither plays by the rules. quite the contrary….reject completely how the game is played. here is your chance again america….you blew it by not voting for ron paul. you got Sanders now. if you dont vote for him you want more shaft. hillary and/or trump are part of the game. if you want real change you got to play a new one. one on where the whole paradigm of how its played is not the same. one where you can have a decent life. like we sort of did before 1981 and Reaganomic trickledown lies. and the clinton NAFTA balls deep scam on working people in America.
Jeremiah Wilson says
December 10, 2015 at 3:40 AMi want to read this book.
Berg Djelderian says
December 10, 2015 at 3:42 AMOnly 36000 people interested in watching this? What's wrong with you AMERICA? the Elite has managed to divide us into liberals and conservatives, and are picking our pockets. Do we hate each other that much to work agains our own interest? WE NEED A REVOLUTION! LETS GET GOING IN 2016. STOP LABELING THE CANDIDATES, LET"S ELECT THE GOVERNMENT THAT RESPONDS TO OUR NEEDS. BERNIE SANDERS IS NOT ACCEPTING CORPORATE MONEY, HE HAS PROVEN HIS ALLEGIANCE TO THE PEOPLE"S INTERESTS. I AM VOTING FOR HIM.
Joe Weis says
December 10, 2015 at 4:25 AMSTOP CORPORATE FASCISM !!! SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT
John Bilsbury says
December 10, 2015 at 4:55 AMIm not sure Ralph Nader has ever done anything effectively. He ran as an independent in the US election about 15 years back and helped split the vote allowing Bush to get in
Jim Barrack says
December 10, 2015 at 5:24 AMGotta say that was the best interview of "RALPHIE" I've ever seen, so concise on target, never straying , full intention to get to the point. Wanna say Kudos to the journalist!!!
David Seger says
December 10, 2015 at 5:43 AMnothing is worth $1000 per shot…
szaki says
December 10, 2015 at 5:59 AMWhat's wrong with his nose?