{"id":2105,"date":"2021-02-07T01:54:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T08:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2021-02-07T01:54:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T08:54:22","slug":"old-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2021\/02\/07\/old-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The young beautiful smart Bri in conversation with the old gnarled smart Ralph<\/a> Nader. <\/p>\n

Saint Ralph (and yes I did vote for him in 2000, and no it’s not my fucking fault Bush won) notes:<\/p>\n

In 2020, if 43,000 votes in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia would have switched from Biden to Trump, the Electoral College would have been tied, and Biden would have lost just like Gore did.<\/p>\n

That’s how close the election really was. That’s how fucking broken the Dems are–they lost in 2016, and incredibly, they came that close to losing again<\/em> to the completely corrupt orange bigot after four years of his incompetent hell.<\/p>\n

Bonus anecdote: AOC has never returned any of Ralph’s numerous phone calls. Jacobin magazine won’t either. This should tell you (my opinion) all you need to know about where they really stand. Unlike Briahna, unlike Jackson, unlike Ralph, they don’t actually have both feet on the right side of the people’s line. Rather, and perhaps by a razor-thin margin, they’re careerists and partisan hacks in the end.<\/p>\n

Two more clips from the same episode of the Bad Faith podcast:<\/p>\n

Ralph Nader: Are Third Parties Spoilers?<\/a><\/p>\n

Ralph Nader’s Practical Tips for Pressuring Power<\/a><\/p>\n

Extra, Extra.
\nThe Soft Corruption of Ambition w\/ Richard Wolff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The young beautiful smart Bri in conversation with the old gnarled smart Ralph Nader. Saint Ralph (and yes I did vote for him in 2000, and no it’s not my fucking fault Bush won) notes: In 2020, if 43,000 votes in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia would have switched from Biden to Trump, the Electoral College […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}