Ralphie started it!

Looking back to the early 60's we can see the UAW started their campaign of absurd demands soon after Ralph Nader attacked the Big 3 for their not building safer cars and just delivering what the consumer wanted . . . that an overall better vehicle. Sorry, just better wasn't good enough.

I was working in the industry at the time as watched the Detroit product quality began to slide soon after the Big 3 was hit by the UAW/Nader double whammy.

Actually it was a Triple Whammy at the time as the Big 3 was also being hammered by the Feds with Affirmative Action Demands when they were often forced to send taxis to pick up unwilling employees. Please note that I didn't call them "unwilling workers" as all many needed to do was punch the time-clock so the plant could operate once the required Diversity percentage had been achieved.

What I have always considered a tell of Ralph's dishonesty was his never attacking the VW Beatle that was many times a more dangerous vehicle than anything coming out of Detroit. Ralph's conflict was that most of his supporters were the easily swayed College Students (that sound familiar) who were often driving VW Bugs that were built in Germany.