Thank you, anonymous GUEST, for clarifying something that, for some reason, you have not been clear about, and that is simply that you are not and have never been a "progressive" Democrat in anyway, but are, in fact, an old line Leftist trying, once more, to crash the party--

The leftist view, and, coincidentally, the Nader view, is, we know what is good for the people, and they will recognize it and rise up, with one voice, casting off their consumerist, materialist, American shackles and embrace our New Progressive, leftist values--

The thing is that to lead the people, you must listen to the people--

Nader doesn't, which is why, though he claims to be a populist, he has no popular support--If he truly spoke for "the people", at least the ones who feel disenfranchised, disillusioned, or disgusted with the electoral process, he would have support at the level of a Ross Perot or a George Wallace--instead, his support is dwindling fast--

Both the Old and the New Left never listened--which is why they are never a factor in American politics for more than a few years at a time--