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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Not once.
He lectures on Inconvenient Truth issues and he's not going to walk from gathering to gathering. He takes planes. He is a public figure and he is hounded if he doesn't sequester himself to some extent.
None of this is a SECRET. Al is rich and he came from money. If, after eight years in the public eye as VP of the nation, you didn't know that about him, shame on you for not keeping up with some very basic "current events" material.
Contrast this with poor boy Ralph, who lied and said he lived in a boarding house with a crapper down the hall, when in actuality he lived in a luxury home he put in his incompetent brother's name. Who played the starving monk, but grew wealthy beyond belief, and hid his wealth in non-profits that he controlled. Who used the money of the non-profits, some of which he bullied out of college students, to gamble on the stock market. Who got investigated by the IRS and fined for his behavior. Who demands five star accommodation even when he's giving a speech to poor groups. Who fired his OWN workers when they tried to unionize after enduring brutal working conditions and slave wages.
It's only hypocritical when you hide behind a charade of poverty and faux progressivism and you grow wealthy from stocks that are heavily invested in war and anti-union "fuck the worker" corporations. That's what Ralph did, and he knew what he was doing when he put the CEO of Halliburton in charge of our government--after all, he had a ton of Halliburton stock!