Why does ralph nader run

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Early s - Practices law in Hartford, Connecticut. Nader accuses car makers of putting style ahead of safety in the design of their cars. He focuses specifically on the Chevrolet Corvair. February 10, - Testifies before a Senate subcommittee on auto safety. March - James Roche, president of General Motors, apologizes in front of the Senate for hiring private investigators to spy on Nader.

September 9, - President Lyndon B. August 19, - Is nominated as the Green Party's candidate for president. November - Receives , votes. June 25, - Is again nominated as the Green Party candidate for president. November - Receives 2. Is on the ballot in 33 states and the District of Columbia as the Green Party candidate and is listed as an Independent on the ballots of eight states. January - Establishes the League of Fans, a sports reform and advocacy project.

On people who blame Al Gore's defeat his third-party run. They're either fact deprived because they don't go through the facts as I've just narrated them. Or, they're looking for scapegoats. The Democratic Party felt a chagrin that they couldn't defeat a bumbling governor from Texas with a very poor record on children and on pollution and other things. And so they are looking for a scapegoat as to why they didn't landslide him, and the Green Party was a convenient scapegoat.

That's not the first time major parties have scapegoat third parties and tried to turn them into third-class citizens. On whether or not the two-party system will change in his lifetime. Because first of all we're going to get more billionaires and hopefully some more enlightened ones going into the presidential and senatorial elections in the future. That's one benefit of the Ross Perot and Donald Trump candidacies.

The second, the barriers to third parties are beginning to be reduced. There have been many lawsuits brought by the Green Party or the Libertarian Party or the Conservative Party that have cut back in state after state so that the barriers are becoming more surmountable to give the voters more choices and voices. And third, you look at the polls and they show about 60 percent of the American people want a viable third party. I like the privacy of the vote, so I don't say.

I don't say, but it's hard to conclude who I'm not going to vote for