Hillary Clinton is a “deep corporatist and deep militarist” who is trying to “overcompensate” for being a woman, former Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader recently said.
Nader made the remarks regarding the Democratic 2016 presidential front-runner during a discussion about his new book, Return to Sender, which is a compilation of letters Nader addressed to sitting presidents.
Nader was sympathetic toward Clinton’s “corporatism,” but hammered her on her “militarism.”
“One can almost forgive the corporatism. She moved to New York with Bill because that’s where the power is and Wall Street, but her militarism is absolutely shocking,” he said.
Nader blamed Clinton for the conflict in Libya.
“She almost single-handedly did the Libyan war. The Defense Department was against it, [former Defense Secretary Robert] Gates, and she persuaded the White House that it was an easy topple without knowing that in a tribal society — with nothing to replace it — you would have a civil war, sectarian killings spilling into Africa, weapons everywhere, Mali, Central Africa,” he said.
Evan as a former senator and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Nader said Clinton “never met a weapons system she didn’t like.”
Clinton’s hawkish mentality is a result of her trying to compensate for her gender, Nader said.
“This is the problem of women trying to overcompensate in becoming more aggressive and macho so they are not accused of being soft on the need to kill and war, right?” Nader said. “Instead of taking the tradition of women of peace, and turning into a muscular waging of peace of conflict and prevention, she did the reverse, and [Madeleine] Albright did the reverse, and Anne Marie Slaughter did the reverse and some of Obama’s advisers did the reverse.”
A long-time member of the Green Party, Nader ran for president in four elections. He last ran in 2008, as an independent, and garnered 0.56 percent of the vote.
