Step Up And Support Ralph Nader

Fascism, like socialism, is rooted in a market society that refused to function.

A financial system always devolves, without heavy government control, into a Mafia capitalism -- and a Mafia political system.

A self-regulating market turns human beings and the natural environment into commodities, a situation that ensures the destruction of both society and the natural environment.

Who is this speaking?

It is the Hungarian intellectual Karl Polanyi, author of the influential book The Great Transformation (1944).

Polanyi fled fascist Europe in 1933 and eventually taught at Columbia University.

Remembering Polanyi, former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges writes today:

"I place no hope in Obama or the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is a pathetic example of liberal, bourgeois impotence, hypocrisy and complacency. It has been bought off. I will vote, if only as a form of protest against our corporate state and an homage to Polanyi's brilliance, for Ralph Nader. I would like to offer hope, but it is more important to be a realist. No ethic or act of resistance is worth anything if it is not based on the real. And the real, I am afraid, does not look good."

We live in difficult times.

But one man has shown the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the corporate state -- Ralph Nader.

For most of this year, Ralph has been barnstorming across the country -- bringing a message of hope and resilience to a troubled America.

And now it's time to step up and support Ralph Nader and the shift the power platform he has gifted to the American people.