I think the quote from George Bernard Shaw that precedes the documentary, An Unreasonable Man, about Ralph Nader sums up the man aptly:
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."Nader has a made a career of challenging the government and big business with the interests of the common man and the consumer in mind. His foray into politics was born form the same principles that no real change can occur until there’s been a revolution in the political process where the interests of the common man trump the interests of big business and Nader saw his entry into politics as a opening for a third party challenging the status quo. But many Democrats see his presidential campaign as a detriment to the outcome of the 2000 Presidential election that Bush stole form Al Gore. The filmmakers talk to those who feel he is responsible for the outcome as well as those who defend his actions. I have to side with those who said if Gore had run a better campaign it wouldn’t have mattered, but he didn’t even win his own home state. The documentary looks at his early career in public service to his recent campaigns as the Green Party presidential candidate. It reveals a selfless man devoted to a life and career in public service trying to better the country by challenging laws and corporations that are detrimental to the general population. As a result he has no social life, financial gain, and has acquired much scorn for his controversial presidential campaign.
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