I Believe Ralph Nader is Trolling

I respected Ralph Nader when I was growing up as being a kind of "on our side" guy. You know, a friend of consumers and regular folks. A trier, a doer, a person whose heart was in the right place most of the time.  That was why I kind of looked at his quixotic 2000 Presidential run as sort of like what someone might do if one were having a mid-life crisis, but, being Ralph-freaking-Nader, one were quite incapable of getting the flashy sportscar. Why wouldn't a person try running for president to get an airing of issues one cared about?

Unless you were a Nader supporter in 2000, you probably can't remember what Nader was running on. If you were a regular, just kind of politically-involved person, you probably remember he didn't think there was a dime's worth of difference between Bush and Gore--well, I looked at the same thing, but "O! the difference to me!" But anyhow, I could respect Nader on the policy issues--I am no fan of corporate personhood, I believe in a living wage, I am for universal healthcare, affordable education, and so on. I might have even found his views more in line with my own than Al Gore's, but I am a funny old thing, and was then--I tend to vote for the least obnoxious and most electable person I can find.