gdp's Comments

http://www.votenader.org/ : Our Post-Election Issues Survey -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:05:21 +0000

Okay, enough is enough. Ever since the passing of the election, the comments on this site have been dominated by raving lunatics (I am referring to the endless, incoherent, abysmally misspelled and run-on comments of those such as Dcj91365 and ellisliza who have dominated the comments for weeks now). I have sent a request to the administrators of the site to put a stop to this. This is a site dedicated to the purpose of changing the system---or being a catalyst for that change. This is Ralph Nader's website. It was never intended to attract rambling nutcases or people who need to quaff a dozen whiskey sours while blogging. Also, slow it down a bit when you type. Punctuate once in a while. Sentences that run on and on end up making no damn sense, now do they? Learning how to spell simple words would be a big help as well. Stop trying to be so artsy-farsty with your writing, too. Speak plainly. We don't need poetry here. We need ideas.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same -- Ralph Nader for Presid

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:35:47 +0000

So, basically, what's the answer? Keep plugging away, staying informed, and never lose sight of who's trying to help us; like Nader, like Gonzalez, and who at least doesn't mind hurting us; like Barack Obama, the Clintons, John Kerry; and those who enjoy hurting us, like good ol' Bush. We just have to keep hoping, I guess, that one day people will get tired of playing with their $2000 gadgets that cost $80 to produce, and join the ranks of the self-defending. In the meantime, give the bastards at the top all the hell you can. And if anyone does decide to storm the Capitol, I'll be there.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same -- Ralph Nader for Presid

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:26:20 +0000

The problem being, we thinking, caring individuals, like the people on this website, have to suffer--greatly--for the majority's complacence. At this point, I'd rather just move to Canada, or Holland better yet, but those countries have no "open door" policy like we have here. So here I am. And I've grown to truly despise America. I don't want to feel that way, but what is there really left to love? I keep coming up short on that one. I'm 33 years old, and I work at a friggin' Sbarro at the mall. I can write, I can paint, I can play the guitar...and yet here I am, too damn poor to break my cycle of poverty, living in a country that would just as soon keep me that way. The land of opportunity? Sure, it is. If you're one of them.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same -- Ralph Nader for Presid

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:19:05 +0000

Fair enough, Gaborok. And deep down, we all know you're right.. Much like the French Revolution, when the government is raping and starving its people, and there isn't even the barest thread of equality--true equality--left, then it is time for all-out revolution. I believe we have reached that time, but it's not gonna happen. Most people aren't even in shape enough to do that sort of thing, never mind realizing they need to. Are the American people getting what they deserve? Yes, they are. Because even when the corruption, the greed, the lies, the propaganda are laid out before them scrawled in blood, half don't get it and most don't care. Our "leaders" and our corporations have worked hard to rear an ignorant, apathetic population, and that's what they've gotten.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same -- Ralph Nader for Presid

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:38:59 +0000

The answer is revolution...The mass-boycotting of evil corporations' products and services. Stop shopping at Wal-Mart. Stop drinking Coca-Cola. Stop eating at chain restaurants. Stop buying garbage we don't need. Get over our e- i- o- and u- addictions. Get over our "next newest thing" obsessions. Just because a company invents some modestly new technology, doesn't mean go in for it. We don't need $2000 TVs. We are letting them rape us. We must stop. We must take to the streets in large, mass demonstrations. We must scream until we are heard.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same -- Ralph Nader for Presid

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:26:30 +0000

And the Reagan/Bush/Clinton Dynasty continues....But somehow, we call it a democracy with a straight face.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: Restoring the Constitution -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:20:52 +0000

Precisely.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: Restoring the Constitution -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:15:06 +0000

Hedges has written a brilliant article, which you can read in full at www.greenchange.org. After reading this brilliant explanation of the country we now live in, you will see that the reason Nader can't get elected and is lucky to get on the ballot isn't JUST the corrupt system, the corporate control of the media and the debate commissions, and all these things we know need to be eliminated, but the level of unbelievable ignorance of the majority of the American populace. This, before any expectation of progress can be considered, must change. We MUST become an informed nation again.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: Restoring the Constitution -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:08:15 +0000

The ultimate problem with America is not the corrupt politicians, the corporate control, the waste, the war, etc. The problem is we have an apathetic, ignorant population too damn dumb and lazy to do anything about it. Take a walk down any street and ask five people at random what they think about almost any national situation. Not one will be able to form an articulate thought. An article entitled "America the Illiterate" by Chris Hedges tells us: "There are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation's population is illiterate or barely literate. And their numbers are growing by an estimated 2 million a year. The illiterate rarely vote, and when they do vote they do so without the ability to make decisions based on textual information. American political campaigns, which have learned to speak in the comforting epistemology of images, eschew real ideas and policy for cheap slogans and reassuring personal narratives. Political propaganda now masquerades as ideology."

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: Restoring the Constitution -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:54:47 +0000

Eighty percent of our population thinks, acts and responds to the world around them on a sixth grade level. Even those who went to college. Take a serious look at our brainless culture. Look at how Americans respond to rhetoric that gives them a warm, fuzzy, falsely secure feeling. Deciding who to vote for requires no thought. Only reaction to stimulation; to be fed false notions of superiority; that America is the greatest nation on Earth, a beacon of hope, and that Americans are the bravest, kindest, hardest-working folks on the planet. Hitler used the same tactic to seduce millions. We get it every four years. People no longer read in this country. Nobody bothers to inform themselves. Most couldn't grasp many of the great writings and honest news sources if they tried, due to the fact that we're graduating people from high school and college who are functionally illiterate. Obama played to the low attention-span masses in the same way that has become customary to most public figures.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: Restoring the Constitution -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:44:13 +0000

I share the anger of ellisliza and many others. It pains and depresses me to think that we have four to eight years of Obama and the horrifically corrupt status quo. However, public redress via the same illegitimate system is hardly the answer. There simply aren't enough attorneys of conscience out there. What we need is for the informed minority to take to the streets, to government and institutional buildings, and anywhere else that we can make a ruckus and DEMAND that the fascism, the corporate control, end. We are fighting for our lives here. We need to start. Anyone who wishes to join me can tell me right here or go to my website, www.nomoreevil.weebly.com. We can't just sit around and hope for things to get better. Nor can we hope for a Ralph Nader to save us. WE must take action. WE must fight the fight. And WE must do everything we can to wake the majority up.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: Between Hope and Reality -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:35:08 +0000

I'm with Dana. You people need to pop your heads out of your rear-ends.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: Between Hope and Reality -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:28:43 +0000

Used his voting against going to war with Iraq to get the attention of millions of Americans, all the while voting to increase spending on the war and redeploying troops for the billionth time. Said he would fight tooth and nail to stop the impeachment of Bush and Cheney, the very men who gave him the opportunity to use his "Change" platform to run for President, playing to Americans feelings of hopelessness. This alone makes him an enormous hypocrite. In conclusion, I will say LOUD and PROUD: OBAMA IS JUST AS EVIL AS BUSH! MAYBE EVEN MORE. So wake up, Amirflesher. Don't spend the next eight years worshipping someone who is screwing us all.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: Between Hope and Reality -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:20:17 +0000

You ought to do a little research on Obama's record, and stop being seduced by him. He's a fraud, period. He is going to harm this country in ways you can only dream of. All right, let's review: Voted for the continuation of the PATRIOT ACT. Goodbye, freedom, hello path to a police state. Voted for the $700 billion bailout of corporations at the expense of the taxpayers. He even threw in some $150 billion worth of goodies. I hope you're okay with helping to buy some CEO's new yacht. Promised to bring us universal health care. Uh, yeah. While the American Medical Association's top lobbyists are buying him lunch everyday. Voted for the FISA bill, after telling us what an infringement on our basic rights it is. Of course, this was before he had the Democratic nomination in the bag.

http://www.votenader.org/ : In the Public Interest: Between Hope and Reality -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:08:39 +0000

We aren't talking about vicious, nasty attacks here. We're talking about Nader being one of the only people in America pointing out that Obama is a fraud. I believe we need that.

http://www.votenader.org/ : Hold Your Heads Up High -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:24:32 +0000

You are an idiot.

http://www.votenader.org/ : Ralph Nader’s Statement on the Truncated Quotation Used by Shepard Smith on Fox News -- Ralph

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:01:13 +0000

We need to find our way back to being realistic about racial differences in this country. Enough of this can't-say-this-can't-say-that mentality. We should be able to discuss things honestly and openly. Everyone talks about free speech in this country, then attack anyone who says something they don't care for, as if that person had no right to say it. As George Carlin said, political correctness came about as a way to control the language, because that's how you control thought. The media has been at that game for a long time now. Let's stop obliging them. Think for yourself, and realize why Nader chose to use the term he used. Don't just react in shock and horror. Be an adult.

http://www.votenader.org/ : Ralph Nader’s Statement on the Truncated Quotation Used by Shepard Smith on Fox News -- Ralph

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:55:23 +0000

Listen, the reason for a lack of politically-relevant terms for white people in government is only common sense: They aren't a minority. There is no "traitor to their own people" issue for whites. Simple as that. We can't look at life in these unrealistic, "Everyone has absolutely the same issues and concerns" terms. It's unrealistic, and it all comes from the propagandist machine called Political Correctness. I'm 33 years old and I remember the invention of political correctness. The only thing it has done, in the long term, is restrict intelligent, adult discussion and given agenda-driven people like Sheperd Smith convenient distractions from issues under the guise of standing up for what's "right." This is a guy who works for Fox News. What makes anyone think he cares about black people and Nader does not? It's absurd. In one five-minute blip on TV, Smith managed to completely discredit Ralph Nader in the eyes of millions, which was absolutely his intention. That's what political correctness does.

http://www.votenader.org/ : What We Accomplished Together -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:57:37 +0000

Are you serious? You didn't vote for Nader because they didn't get around to sending you some cd's? I'm guessing you're pretty young, and naive. Whatever went wrong with your being reimbursed for your services, the larger issue was to vote Nader/Gonzalez, the people trying to save us from Evil America. And by the way, you should have been volunteering your time out of a passionate desire for changing a corrupt, fascist system, not to get some free loot. Shame on you! Head over to Obama's camp; you'll fit in there better.

http://www.votenader.org/ : Hold Your Heads Up High -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 05:32:16 +0000

gshvets is absolutely right. Obama is a sell-out, period. Look at what he's already done. Voted for wiretapping and spying on Americans; voted for the Big Bailout, plus $150 billion in CEO bonuses and other earmarks; gone back on his stand against the war; gone back on his favoring universal health care...and the list goes on. Obama and his "change" rhetoric. The only thing that's going to change is we'll have a more articulate man lying to us for the next several years.