This raises the question of whether it will be good for us. By campaigning for leverage, Nader is settling for too little. We need not just leverage. We need power. Leverage is the ability to influence the path a polity takes to an objective.
Power is the capacity to decide the objective.
Obtaining power will require a long struggle, just as it took the Municipal Voters League in Chicago. It will require ideas. It will also require politics. It will require both leaders and an organized constituency to which those leaders are held accountable. And, given the enormous institutional, cultural and financial opposition we will face, we will need to be intelligent, strategic and disciplined.