An Unreasonable Man
A friend and I went to a showing of the Ralph Nader documentary An Unreasonable Man last night at the Miami Beach Cinematheque. Joe Tom Easely, a friend of Naders who was against his running for president in 2000 and one of the main interviewees in the movie, spoke afterwards and a poli-sci prof from FIU was there to encourage a discussion about the film/moderate.
A very good movie, balanced, as Joe said Ralph feels about it. Unfortunately during the screening one man felt the need to loudly agree with just about any fact about Nader. During the discussion, an older couple decided to try to takeover any dialogue by yelling insults about Nader or anyone that disagreed with them. I felt sorry for the professor.
December 24th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Ah I really wish I’d gotten a chance to talk to someone like Mr. Easely because I was really disappointed that nobody in the film talked about the “spoiler” issue being a flaw in the election system that can and should be fixed. Even Nader himself doesn’t focus on that. Yet to me it’s the most important issue in the whole film, possibly, and isn’t even discussed.
I wrote about this in my post Instant Runoff Voting Excluded: An Unreasonable Omission from An Unreasonable Man. Hope you’ll check it out and let me know what you think. I’m hoping more people on both sides of the debate about Nader’s presidential runs will band together to work for things like Instant Runoff Voting so we have no more “spoilers” and no more people scapegoated just for running for office in a democracy.