Nader lists major stupidities by the Democrats that have led to their abject failure.
-choosing to accept corporate money; "you could see the difference in appointments to regulatory agencies, the difficulty in getting them to upgrade health and safety regulations."
-They didn't adjust to charming Reagan; "still thinking Republican conservatives were dull, stupid, and humorless."
-They began to judge their challenge to Republicans by how much money they raised. "As a result they took the economic issues off the table that used to win again and again in the 30's and 40's for the Democrats."
-they drew back geographically, to the east coast, west coast and didn't run a 50-state [presidential] campaign.
-they decided to campaign by TV, with political consultants influencing them & getting their 15-20% cut. When you campaign by TV you campaign by slogans, not by policy.
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the (more...)
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