Ralph Nader: Corporate socialism runs US government

With midterm elections in the US about to begin, RT has spoken with 4-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader about the real powers that govern America. Ralph Nader does not belong to either of the two parties ruling Congress. Nader believes that Theodore Dreiser put it very well many years ago, when he said that "the corporations are the government". "Knowing they [corporations] can't be out front because people don't like a lot of these big corporations, they are ripped off by the banks and credit card companies, they camouflage and their camouflage is that they give the Tea Parties certain deceptive information and focus on certain politicians, and therefore they continue their work behind the scenes. We have corporate socialism in this country where profits are kept and losses are socialized on the back of the taxpayer," Nader said. "There isn't a single department agency in the US government whose outside influence overwhelmingly is not corporate," he added. "They control from the outside, they put their representatives into government positions, funding the members of Congress with their cash [and] 35,000 full-time lobbyists in Washington -- they are the government."
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[farmboycarl]

From the time I owned a Corvair in high school, I was trained to believe this guy was a whacko. Then my mind (which ironically was opened by owning the Corvair) started to understand that Nader really stands for something that others just talk about. Morality and justice. The Wall Street-owned media has done everything to discredit him, but very few people embody American grit more than Ralph Nader.

[Dean0000007]

I agree, Paul's foriegn policy and Naders domestic policy would be a winner!

[Vote3rdParty]

Ron Paul is a white supremacist!

/watch?v=Ixia1EOeQCE

[Vote3rdParty]

Ron & Rand Paul are anything but sane. They are loonier than the Neocons.

/watch?v=Ixia1EOeQCE

[Vote3rdParty]

Corporate socialism is an oxymoron. The correct term is corporatism.

[Blueberrymuffinsify]

Nice well spoken.

[Roc Hodges]

I could listen to this man talk for hours.

[Filip Minić]

No, the majority of company stocks still belong to a very small group of people, the crowd money is mostly for funding and the real decisions are being made by the big players.

[Filip Minić]

That's what you think, you just don't take into account that companies can today convince you what to think, they can market something so well and destroy the competition and you will do what they want, this is also what politicians do.

[Filip Minić]

Together they would be the best party in America.

[SunnySinclair1979]

I hate these Fuckers!

[Curatica]

Well said!