If activist and perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader is any bellwether for the progressive Left, Hillary Clinton could have a tough time wooing the base of her party in 2016.
Speaking to an interviewer from WeAreChange earlier this week, Nader savaged the Democratic front-runner. “Well, Hillary is a corporatist and a militarist,” he began, after being asked what he thought of both her and Republican hopeful Rand Paul. “Do we want another corporatist and militarist? She thinks Obama is too weak — he doesn’t kill enough people overseas.”
“So she’s a menace to the United States of America,” Nader continued. “And what we need is our people — regardless of whether they’re libertarians or not — that pull back on the empire and make Wall Street subordinate to Main Street.”
“People need to start thinking, doing their homework, and become informed voters, and not coronate another corporatist and militarist,” he finished.
Nader had kinder words for Rand Paul, but worried that the Kentucky Republican is now gradually turning towards an interventionist foreign policy as he seeks the White House.
via Mediaite
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