La Discussion Politique
These presidential debates are mind-numbing. It would be a lot more impressive if the candidates did not feel they have to debate every little detail that their rival raises, especially when the moderator tries to move the debate along. The bickering and finger pointing just send out bad vibes--and tonight they tried to justify their negative campaigning at the debate, sending out even more negativity. Readers advisory: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum.
Tonight, my mom brought up Ralph Nader. She heard him interviewed on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and was pleasantly surprised. Mr. Nader who is running (yet again) for President as an Independent. Really, he is a moving speaker. While sometimes I find myself thinking,"Oh you're being dramatic," I always seem to run across research by a sociologist or psychologist that backs him up. One example is that Nader has griped about the ads aired during Saturday morning cartoons that are meant to influence children to beg their parents for various products. I just read a book on the sexualization of children--So Sexy So Soon by Diane E. Levine and Jean Kilbourne--that backs this up. The advertising industry's bread and butter is convincing consumers young and old to buy products and will do anything--even sell their souls to the devil--to get the job done.
For decades Nader has advocated and fought for the rights and protection of all Americans--not just special interest groups or the elite. He has fought for legislation and created task forces to protect the American people from corporations and politicians. He founded Public Citizen, a consumer watch group that acts as a voice for the American people in all the branches of government. It is "dedicated to protecting health, safety, and democracy."
Because he doesn't belong to either major political party, Nader will say what he believes without reservation. He doesn't avoid the question and is no smooth talker. And the two major parties don't like him; they are afraid of him. In 2004, I worked on Nader's campaign in Texas. Our goal was to get his name on the presidential ballot. There were many road blocks to prevent this goal from coming to fruition, including laws that treated independent candidates differently and in a stricter manner than third party candidates; volunteers being harassed by law enforcement while legally collecting the allotted number of names required to get his name on the ballot in public forums; and criticism by both local Democrat and Republican party organizations--a rare display of bipartisanship. I became even more disillusioned about the Country's political process.
For more information on Ralph Nader, the ignored political candidate, visit his campaign web site at http://www.votenader.org and The Nader Page.
These presidential debates are mind-numbing. It would be a lot more impressive if the candidates did not feel they have to debate every little detail that their rival raises, especially when the moderator tries to move the debate along. The bickering and finger pointing just send out bad vibes--and tonight they tried to justify their negative campaigning at the debate, sending out even more negativity. Readers advisory: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum.
Tonight, my mom brought up Ralph Nader. She heard him interviewed on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and was pleasantly surprised. Mr. Nader who is running (yet again) for President as an Independent. Really, he is a moving speaker. While sometimes I find myself thinking,"Oh you're being dramatic," I always seem to run across research by a sociologist or psychologist that backs him up. One example is that Nader has griped about the ads aired during Saturday morning cartoons that are meant to influence children to beg their parents for various products. I just read a book on the sexualization of children--So Sexy So Soon by Diane E. Levine and Jean Kilbourne--that backs this up. The advertising industry's bread and butter is convincing consumers young and old to buy products and will do anything--even sell their souls to the devil--to get the job done.
For decades Nader has advocated and fought for the rights and protection of all Americans--not just special interest groups or the elite. He has fought for legislation and created task forces to protect the American people from corporations and politicians. He founded Public Citizen, a consumer watch group that acts as a voice for the American people in all the branches of government. It is "dedicated to protecting health, safety, and democracy."
Because he doesn't belong to either major political party, Nader will say what he believes without reservation. He doesn't avoid the question and is no smooth talker. And the two major parties don't like him; they are afraid of him. In 2004, I worked on Nader's campaign in Texas. Our goal was to get his name on the presidential ballot. There were many road blocks to prevent this goal from coming to fruition, including laws that treated independent candidates differently and in a stricter manner than third party candidates; volunteers being harassed by law enforcement while legally collecting the allotted number of names required to get his name on the ballot in public forums; and criticism by both local Democrat and Republican party organizations--a rare display of bipartisanship. I became even more disillusioned about the Country's political process.
For more information on Ralph Nader, the ignored political candidate, visit his campaign web site at http://www.votenader.org and The Nader Page.
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