Selene Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Somehow I find this story hilarious...That’s the premise of the new book “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State” by longtime political activist and five-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader, who contends that such a left-right alliance is not just the stuff of imagination but is actually emerging.“On Capitol Hill, I'm seeing more and more in Congress, left and right,” Nader told “The Fine Print.” “It was a vote in the House over a year ago over the NSA snooping, it almost broke through … so we're beginning to see formulations that once they click together, they're unstoppable.”Nader was referring to a vote in July 2013 over a measure known as the Amash Amendment that would have curtailed the National Security Agency’s ability to collect bulk phone call data. The measure narrowly failed by 12 votes, in part due to a concerted White House lobbying effort on Capitol Hill.http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/ralph-naders-america-impeach-obama-decriminalize-drugs-libertarians-progressives-unite-110418813.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reidy Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Ralph who?This sounds like what a lot of libertarians were saying in the 60s, under the influence of Hess and Rothbard. You could go to a love-in and spot the libertarians; they were the ones who wore full hippie duds with saddle shoes. Nothing came of it then, and I predict that nothing will come of now. Back then a lot of people believed that statists were individualists and libertarians at heart. Subsequent history has not been kind to this belief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralist Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Ralph Nader said (about left and right): "...so we're beginning to see formulations that once they click together, they're unstoppable. This is more evidence that the political spectrum is actually a circle where the extreme right meets the radical left on "the dark side". Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backlighting Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I thought Ralphie was dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralist Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 He looks dead.Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backlighting Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 He looks dead.Greglol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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