Abstract

Full-Court Press

The article holds the candidacy of Ralph Nadir, presidential candidate from Green Party in the forthcoming U.S. Presidential election, in poor light and proves the shallowness of the movement he stands for. The article author expresses the opinion that the nascent leftist movement of Green Party has virtually no support among African-Americans, Latinos or Asian-Americans. It has no support among organized feminist groups, organized gay rights groups or mainstream environmental groups. To top it all off, it has no support in the national union movement. Nader's candidacy, moreover, manifests some of the least attractive aspects of the sectarian left. It demonstrates the old faux-revolutionary tendency to focus fire on one's natural allies on the center-left rather than one's genuine enemies on the right.