Ralph Nader is right: We need a billionaire presidential
candidate There's more money than ever in electoral politics. A
self-funded candidate could change all that. 2016? (Michael
Tran/FilmMagic)  alph Nader, consumer advocate and repeat failed
presidential candidate, has an interesting take on who can best
fix America's political system and make our government more
responsive to average, ordinary people: The super-rich.  On
Monday, Nader wrote on his website that the "shared
monopolization of politics" by moneyed interests had eroded the
government's accountability and entrenched the de facto two-
party system. It's a well-worn claim, and one that most
Americans would probably agree with. A self-financed
presidential candidate could "break this introverting cycle of
political oligarchy," Nader says, by giving voters a truly
independent option and normalizing the idea of third party
candidates.   MERPs can open up this closed system and make it
breathe. And this openness helps people publicly place many
issue