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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)you. Every assertion in that document is sourced.
Be sure to click on the links within the paragraphs.
This isn't about "anyone in DC enriching themselves." This is about a guy who is an authoritarian union buster (do read the link) who cheated on his taxes (again, the link), who played poor boy while secretly living in a luxury mansion (again, that link) and who took non-profit monies and gambled on the stock market--gee, think he got any good stock tips? (and yes, again, read the link) --and enriched himself on the backs of his underpaid, bullied staff. Oh, and he fired his nearly all-white-male staff when they dared to try to unionize.
And you still think he's a progressive?
Ralph Nader played a role in handing the Presidency to Bush, and he was rewarded for his hard work. You can insist in all caps that Gore won the election, but who spent eight years crapping on the Presidential crapper? Not Al Gore. So, plainly, someone didn't get that word you're putting out twelve years after the fact.
If Al had garnered enough votes to "win and then some," the election would not have been stolen. Ralphie did the GOP's bidding, in FL and all the key battleground states.
It's not rocket science. Follow the money....and FWIW, "other people do it" is never a good excuse. Ever. And again, if you want to complain about "others," fire up a thread and see what kind of response you get. Last time I checked, Diane Feinstein didn't fuck over Al Gore. Neither did Tom Daschle. But Ralph Nader DID.
So, again, Fuck Ralph Nader.