Young men now are far too sensitive because they've never been in a draft.

Nice misdirection. Young men are too sensitive because they've been conditioned and coerced by Marxism's institutional muscle -- of which Nader is a proponent.

I was going to go about 60% as far as LT went.

62.2%

Not like in his day when he walked ten miles to school, uphill both ways

Fuck Nader. He gave us eight years of Bush.

Lacking PTSD, you don't have triggers.

Nice misdirection. Young men are too sensitive because they've been conditioned and coerced by Marxism's institutional muscle -- of which Nader is a proponent. ~ Lastango at June 9, 2016 12:10 AM

This is a man who actively campaigned for president on a platform of universal (cradle to grave) healthcare, a "living" wage, "affordable" housing, free college tuition, and environmental "justice."

Nader has been a huge part of paving the way for today's safe space loving, trigger warning needing, racial quota applying, whining Pajama Boys.

Yeah, that's rich, considering how much Nader has done over the years to establish the current safety-nanny culture.

Thanks to Ralph and his fight for auto safety, I didn't die in a or or get crippled by a car accident that I absolutely would have if it wasn't for the safety features he fought to make an integral part of our lives. I wasn't cut or crushed or thrown into the highway. Thanks Ralph, you the man.

Dion, nice nanny-state reasoning.

Nader ignored the trade-off between safety and affordability. Thanks to Ralph, you're paying as much for an economy automobile as your parents paid for a house. Where, in 1965, the price of a Ford Mustang was equivalent to 911 hours of work at the average production worker wage, today it costs the equivalent of 1,162 hours. That's 251 more hours, or 6.3 more weeks of work.

Nader also ignored the fact that motor vehicle deaths had already been declining steadily before his fear-mongering Unsafe at Any Speed was published in 1965. Motor vehicle death rates per 100 million passenger miles had already fallen from 17.9 in 1925 to 5.5 in 1965. And that's on top of the fact that the number of cars on the road had expanded exponentially in those years.

While Nader's safety activism was a welcome antidote to an automobile industry that was admittedly slow to adopt new safety features (mostly due to cost, not apathy), it ain't thanks to Ralph that you didn't "die in [...] or or get crippled by a car accident." And there's no reason to believe that you "absolutely would have" without Nader's meddling.

> Thanks to Ralph and his fight
> for auto safety, I didn't die

A family member did. May I hold him responsible?

Improvements to safety of that magnitude aren't individual efforts. You can credit him if you want, but the rest of us will make our own choices.

> Not like in his day when he walked ten miles to
> school, uphill both ways

Lucky - it was 20 miles when I was a little 'un.

I have to laugh at the idea that Nader is responsible for everything we don't like about college campuses today.

Well, gotta blame somebody.

Today David Duke is blaming THE JOOZ for pointing out Trump's shortcomings, for instance.

After Gog's proper scolding, my affirmation of LT has dropped to 18%-22%.

Sure, Ralph Nader is more responsible for the appalling quality of today's college students than the people who raised them are. Makes sense.

Kevin, give us some room to play here. It's been almost twenty-five years since I first read a book about political correctness, and it's obviously been warped into something even more despicable and consequential. This isn't just parents anymore, it's parents of parents. All the pandering components of a spiritless, entertainment-addled consumer culture have convinced generations of Americans that they have a right to be right about things, with Papal infallibility regarding phenomena they haven't attempted, seen, visited, or even read about.

A government propelled by (or more precisely, solicitous of) several decades' worth of Naders demanding perfect safety and effortless comfort have diminished our powers in a century when America needs to seal the deal between the rest of the world and modernity.

Nader is right - if those college brats wouldn't complain so much if they had been slaves of the state for a couple of years. Not that Nader's program of making everyone a slave of the state forever is an appropriate remedy,