RALPH NADER, LUDDITE

Those familiar with Nader will be aware he lives alone and does not own a car. It should come as no surprise then that he doesn't use a computer and has no understanding of the political mobilization potential of the internet. He can't understand his presidential campaign's failure to become a populist movement to rival that of the American populist movement of the 1880s:

But just take a moment and ask yourself – if our message is so compelling, and at the push of a button, we can deliver it to millions of citizens – then why hasn’t it helped us to galvanize Populist Moment II?

Where are the thousands of alliances and two million people to shake the irrevocably corrupt Democratic and Republican parties?

Where is the mass movement to extricate us from the quicksand's of Iraq?

Could it be that the technology itself has undermined our ability to organize?

That we have become slaves to our machines?

It's a message problem, Ralph. The poor guy obviously has a common sense deficiency.