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You couldn't possibly be more wrong. Nader, almost singlehandedly, got the engine started on the freeway of events that resulted in governments and states saving the international automobile industry from, at the time, the excesses of it's own balance sheet obsessed dictators; that is, the industries' presidents, executives, officers, chairmen, directors. Whatever Nader's "progressive motivations", the men who were in power and authority, and Nader was certainly not among them, were terrified that the largest industry in their industrial societies would collapse; which seemed more and more likely upon reflection on Nader's hard evidence, points, conclusions, recommendations. This is coming from classic car guy, I've been car crazy ever since I can remember; and most of my car crazy friends, about both contemporary cars and classic cars, who are usually mostly objective and generally open minded, largely share my views on this. Many of us, myself included, are old enough to remember just how dire the conditions became for the industry before effective regulation, even before the first petroleum "crisis". Whatever opinion any of us may have about Ralph Naders "progressive motivations"; for my part, I hold the view that all of us, including all of my fellow automobile enthusiasts in the contemporary car and classic car enthusiast fraternity, owe Ralph Nader an enormous debt of gratitude for being willing to do the hard work and make the sacrifices and endure the abuse, and having the intelligence and the ability, and the backbone, and the courage, to speak truth and stand up to, what was, at the time, an ologopolized mega industry out of control.