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And I say that as someone who voted for him in 2000 -- albeit from a "safe" state, NY.
If you want an example of a true progressive operating within the federal government, look no further than VT Independent (democratic socialist, actually) Rep. Bernie Sanders.
But Ralph Nader? Despite his campaigns for consumer safety and openness in government, I would hardly classify him as a progressive based on his hostility to unions in his workplace, his disdain for democratic processes in his professional life, and his heavyhandedness in electoral politics that has now seriously alienated even many hard-core Green Party activists.
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