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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)This thread isn't about "Who is better?" Even it if were, Al Gore beats that GOP tool Nader hands down.
I'll wager most of his blind followers (the few that remain) don't realize that Saint Ralph gambles on the stock market with "nonprofit" funds donated to to his causes. They don't realize that his personal stock portfolio was heavily invested in "Let's Go To War" stocks, and situated for a "win" once GWB got the White House.
I'll wager most people don't realize that Ralph is a union-buster who paid his staff minimum wage 40 hour a week salaries, worked them twice that, and who fired them for trying to unionize, or that he holds WalMart and McDonald's holdings. They don't realize Ralph is a lobbyist in non-profit's clothing, that he is a tax cheat, and he is a liar.
He's just not the Holy Man his unthinking acolytes believe he is. He's a hypocrite who enables the GOP, because it positions him to be a whining Cassandra for his own self-aggrandizement even while he consorts with the enemies of progressive causes.
Fortunately, people who pay attention just aren't buying his schtick anymore.