{"id":1855,"date":"2008-02-24T15:16:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2008-02-24T15:16:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T15:16:04","slug":"tilting_at_wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"Tilting At Windmills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reputation takes years to build, but it can be demolished in short order. Ralph Nader, already considered a pariah by many, risks making a mockery of whatever remains of his legacy as he mounts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/02\/24\/nader.politics\/index.html\">yet another presidential bid<\/a>. It&#8217;s sad to see him spend his life&#8217;s final chapters on vanity projects like this. If he&#8217;s serious about bringing attention to corporate greed and malfeasance, there are plenty of other ways he could get his message out. I&#8217;m baffled as to why Nader hasn&#8217;t made better use of the Internet and joined forces with other consumer advocates. Why hasn&#8217;t he written more books, produced documentaries, or funneled more resources into grass-roots organizations that might actually be better positioned to achieve some of the changes for which he claims to be fighting? In the present political climate, Nader&#8217;s campaign won&#8217;t even be a sideshow. It will be a joke. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reputation takes years to build, but it can be demolished in short order. Ralph Nader, already considered a pariah by many, risks making a mockery of whatever remains of his legacy as he mounts yet another presidential bid. It&#8217;s sad to see him spend his life&#8217;s final chapters on vanity projects like this. If <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1855' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-tV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}