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We live in a two-party tyranny that doesn't believe in competition, can enforce it with penalties and obstructions, and they're getting closer and closer to being both one corporate party with two heads having different labels.

Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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