Nader criticizes state of American democracy

Smoke and mirrors...and straw-men. This article provides an insight into both, if it accurately describes the speech. It holds out corporations and business as the enemy, allowing the over-reaching of a big-brother-knows-best government to go unchallenged and unacknowledged. When the populace is unhappy, it is good to focus that unhappiness on something else, and the unrepresentative government that now exists is all to happy to have speeches like this given in all the halls of "learning" that is possible...the magician saying watch closely, while misdirecting the audience. Corporations actions are controllable by their stockholders, which are people. When they fail, they go away. Governments run by ideologues are never responsive to the people, regardless of form of government, because those in power "know better" than the masses. That is our real problem today, IMHO, not corporations...there are just as many corporation CEOs and their Boards that were and remain unhappy about the bailouts. The bailouts were government's way to take control of the private sector and to extend the power of government, not protect the welfare of the people...except in the way that they view government as the real evaluator of what is proper welfare of the "people."