Nader Rater

 

What Ralph Nader doesn't seem to understand ("[Still] Unsafe at any Speed," Face-to-Face, December 1985) is that few people can live their lives as though they were at war, unless their daily existence is actually threatened. Only someone who gets emotional satisfaction out of the fight can endure an activist lifestyle.

Nader hasn't done a good enough job of convincing people that their well-being is threatened, and he hasn't come up with the motivations necessary to create more activists, so his criticisms of the public's lack of this and that are misplaced. He should add Psychology Today and Advertising Age to his reading list.