Friday, May 16, 2014

Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader: A Left-Right Convergence Against the Corporate Elite? It Could Happen!

Excerpted by Nicholas Stix

A Left-Right Convergence Against The Corporate Elite? It Could Happen!
By Patrick J. Buchanan
May 15, 2014
VDARE

Last summer, in this capital of gridlock, a miracle occurred.

The American people rose as one and told the government of the United States not to drag us into another Middle East war in Syria.

Barack Obama was ready to launch air and missile strikes when a national uproar forced him to go to Congress for authorization. Congress seemed receptive until some Hill offices were swarmed by phone calls and emails coming in at a rate of 100-1 against war.

Middle America stopped the government from taking us into what even the president now concedes is “somebody else’s civil war.”

This triumphal coming together of left and right was a rarity in national politics. But Ralph Nader, in Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State, believes that ad hoc alliances of left and right to achieve common goals can, should, and, indeed, shall be our political future….

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