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Article: Nader wrote the book (a novel!) on the super-rich
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2009
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WASHINGTON - Ralph Nader, the consumer activist and corporate
scourge, is saying nice things about the kind of folks you'd expect
him to despise.
"Never in America have there been more super-rich people with
relatively enlightened views," says Nader, lean and hopeful at age
75, dark eyes aglow as he speaks at the offices of Public Citizen,
the progressive research and advocacy group he founded nearly 40
years ago. "Not all the super-rich are craven greedhounds,
dominators, and bullies. Some of them take on their counterpart
greedhounds, dominators, and bullies."
Nader hasn't turned conservative and he isn't making this stuff
up, although he is, in a way. After decades of speeches, articles, ...