by the Left Coast Rebel

Years back I had a few friends that loved, adored, fawned over Ralph Nader, the media-anointed consumer activist. Fine, I thought, not knowing better, wasn’t he the guy that heralded in safer car designs, mandatory seat belts in US car manufacturing? It wasn’t until a few years later, while reading an unrelated book that I became privy to the radicalism hiding behind Nader’s populist pleas.

Today I am reading a book-review at the Wall Street Journal – One Man’s Utopia. The theme being Nader’s new novel “Only the Super Rich Can Save Us” Reading the details of this thing, it reminds me of a Team America sequel, sans the fact that it is not meant to be humorous.


Here are some fictional fantasies taken from the pages, Nader’s Team America delusional ravings –

• Investor Warren Buffett, in response to the tragic injustice of Hurricane Katrina comes up with a plan ……. He brings together Ted Turner, Barry Diller, Ross Perot and George Soros,Bill Cosby, Yoko Ono and Warren Beatty,(Beatty becomes CA governor at the end too).


• The Team America bunch devise a plan to save American civilization by increasing regulation, raising taxes and punishing heartless multinational corporations, (how brilliant!).


• Ted Turner and Phil Donahue need a spokesman, a persona for the group’s efforts…..they find one; it’s a parrot, (I kid you not), that shows up on t.v. in 15 second intervals……Patriotic Polly is his name.

And I will stop there. Read the rest of the WSJ book-review here.

h/t Moonbattery

Via. Memeorandum

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