Word: naderized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...private life Nader strives to keep a low profile and to stay out of sight, in his public capacity as a consumer activist, he must relish attention. Publicity is his only means of combatting corporate dollars and keeping his crusade afloat. When Ralph Nader the consumer advocate starts talking about his issues, he sheds the shyness that surrounds Ralph Nader the private person. He speaks with an energy and conviction which reveal his own enthusiasm and asks his listeners why they are not just as committed to consumer affairs...
...Nader rarely sticks to one topic when he speaks. His mind is a vast library of facts and dates, of reports, studies and legislative acts. Through the years he has compiled a list of cause and enemies which seems almost endless. And from this unwieldly mass of issues and debates come the material for his speeches. In his speech at the Beth Israel Hospital, for example. Nader used "the doctor's role in medicine" as an umbrella topic to take pot shots at the automotive industry, the highway industry, the drug companies, nuclear power and the makers of Wonder Bread...
Because of this shotgun approach to issues and enemies. Nader has often been called irresponsible and an attention seeker. Ralph de Toledano, in his critical study of Nader. Hit & Run, says...
...Nader is and was a revolutionist, but like too many of the current crop not quite certain what he wants to destroy and completely at a loss as to what he wants to build . . . Indefatigable in attack, he nevertheless flits from project to project, never completing any particular job and seldom going beyond the flash of publicity which keeps his name current on page one or the TV news...
...Nader's cause, by nature, is not one of narrow scope. His professed enemy is Corporate America. His activities, therefore, defy focus. He attacks auto companies, oil companies, and drug companies on the same premise, as though they constituted a single giant conglomerate whose single motivation was to screw Joe and Jane Consumer. Ever since the 1966 publication of Unsafe at Any Speed. Nader's virulent attack on the automotive industry in general and General Motors in particular, he has battled big business--all big business--with unparalleled energy...