The Stupremes had better reconsider their 2010 Decisioon to allow corp to BUY our elections. Their decision is an abortion of the 5th and 14 amendments and although all of the constitution is open to 'interpretation' -- the Stupremes interpretation in 2010 sold the sole of our democracy to the Koch brothers and others who now FUND the GOP + TParty.

Scalia/Thomas MUST make amends NOW or resign. We know you were wined/dined by the Kock brothers b4 making that decision.

Rest of you -- vote in 2012 -- no matter who is on the Democratic ticket -- vote for a Democrat -- the lesser evil if you are a Republican. THE GOP will make us all slaves groveling for a crumb of bread as the Jews did in WWII.

Hey Sparky, light a match.. And work around the flames that Three Ring Circus with an elephant mascot and upside down stars on it's patriotic side.. Why have they left them upside down and I'm not religious. Just curious. Cause the one's on our flag point up and as far as I'm concerned, go ahead a burn it.If that's all it takes to piss you off, your not stable any way.. I'd call you a name but I think you'd just get upset... We burn flags of others too and all of em are made in Taiwan. American flag my ass, only a few have one made in America and their good.. Don't burn that one ok?.. If it's old and taterd, take that made in America flag over to the American Legion,all others made some where else, do what ya want. Ok? Burn the cope offs.. Feels like the good ol buy off the cops and judges days again.. Feels good if you have the money or no one pursues you and you walk away.. Since Goldman-Sachs and other banks own the Federal Reserve, the folks who printed up all those pallets of money that went to Iraq, had to be paid in cash over there ya know. If we owe them..And they Ponzi schemed us. How come we have to pay them? We should claim bankruptcy as a Nation and try again.. Yeah, that sounds good at 4 in the morning. Cpl. Pierson, 101st Airborne, Vietnam

Good work Ralph. But you are short on details about what people can do. Street protests are not very effective. Government still goes on, as in Wisconsin. The real revolt the American population can carry out is a tax revolt -- simply stop paying federal income tax. If 20 million people did this, the USG could not prosecute them. The tax revolt would need to produce a list of demands that must be met before anyone pay tax again. These would include taking control of banks and investment. The very big banks like Goldman Sachs or Citigroup should be broken up or dismantled completely. The next demand has to be the end of empire. Stop all wars and close all US military bases around the world. The third would be to undo all the laws and court decisions granting "legal personhood" to corporations.

A tax revolt is feasible.

"How do we break the cycle of despair, exclusion, powerlessness, and endless betrayal...?" Yes, Mr. Nader, how exactly? We are all very much aware of how broken and corrupt our government has become. The seriousness of the situation is analyzed to microscopic depths every day. But no one ever offers any practical solutions - no starting point, however small. Our president (with minor exceptions), has utterly failed to live up to his promises and instead assumes the role of doormat for the radical right-wing GOP extremists and quickly allies himself with the very corporations you so accurately rail against. WHAT DO WE DO?
Signed, "Still waiting for the change."

move your money to a local credit union and out of commercial banks - that is a simple first step.

It would be nice if the "raging inferno" would get rid of all the electronic voting machines. There is a strong correlation between the increased use of electronic voting machines in elections and the so called "move to the right". Citizens United and new voter ID laws are excellent tools for the hard-right corporate takeover because the religious-right votes on beliefs rather than facts.
I think the situation in this country would be very different if we voted using hand counted paper ballots.
Mr Nader, use your consumer advocate and lawyer skills to address election integrity, please!

Ralph Nader should have crawled into a closet after the 2000 election and never come back out. There was a huge difference then between the candidates. If Al Gore had become president, it is reasonable to say that:

1. We would never have gone into Iraq. Maybe the 9/11 terrorist attacks would have occurred anyway, and maybe we would have retaliated against Al qaeda as we did, but no Iraq.
2. There would have been no huge tax break for the super wealthy.
3. There would have been much stronger government regulation in all areas, especially the environment.
4. There would have been no attempt to privatize Social Security.
5. We would not have the huge deficit we have now.

The list can be much longer. Would things be perfect? No. But if Ralph Nader had thrown his support behind Gore (even if he thought Gore was only the better of two evils), Al Gore would have won decisively, and we would not be in the mess we are today.

Odd, how the effective but reprehensible act of the media's lack of reminding us, that we seem to have forgotten that the military spends far and away the bulk of our economy. This fact is so far from all the discussion and, apparently our thoughts that perhaps we need to start reminding ourselves and others.

Most of the worlds problems could be solved with only what the pentagon cannot account for annually. And why do we pay interest to the Fed, who so successfully manipulates our economy for private gain?

And I believe Eisenhower's speech included Political complicity with Military and the Industrial.

Historically, wars have been the catalyst for revolution when massive numbers of men died fighting for causes in which they did not believe or the cost of supporting a war effort produced intolerable deprivations for the population at large -- the Russian revolution of 1917 being an example of the former, and the French revolution of 1789 one of the latter. However, as the technologies of battle have improved, conventional wars have become much less stressful and costly in human life, at least as developed countries are concerned. So, we are left with economic effect as the sole remaining motivator of serious protest. It remains to be seen if we have reached the point where that will supply the spark in this country.