Bernie Sanders finally became famous, mainly because Elizabeth Warren was too much of a chicken to take down her senate career in a futile assault on Hillary Clinton. And Ralph Nader, owner of an even more futile career, is still bitter and jealous. And he would like to remind the world that he is still alive and that Sanders stole all his Socialism from him.

“When I hear Bernie talk I’m almost inclined to accuse him of plagiarizing me,” said Ralph Nader.

Nader was whining about Sanders not answering his letters last year.

“In the past year I have called you many times at your Washington office. Your staff dutifully takes my messages, forwards them to you and you do not call back,” Nader’s whiny missive begins.

“During your famous marathon address on the Senate floor in 2010, I called to congratulate you and suggest that your cogent arguments be reproduced in a small book. Your staff took the message to you. No return call.”

And then Sanders bailed on Nader seven years ago. And Nader has not forgotten or forgiven. “Back in 2007, we held the most notable conference on corporate power and reforms in the country right in Washington, D.C… I sent you a letter requesting an explanation for not showing up to relay back to the disappointed people who were in attendance. You chose not to reply.”

You would have thought that the two senile Socialists had gotten gay married at some point with all this bitterness and passive aggressive whining.

Of course this might have something to do with Ralph Nader being a generally terrible person to be around.

Ralph talks big about democracy and even unions. But when his own workers at one of his magazines, Multinational Monitor, got fed up with cruel working conditions and started agitating for a union of their own, Nader busted the union with all of the hardball techniques used by corporate owners across America. Workers at Public Citizen, another Nader group, also tried to form a union because of 60 to 80 hour work weeks, salaries that ranged from $13,000 down, and other difficult working conditions and were blocked by Nader, who remains unapologetic to this day.

When ringleader Tim Shorrock filed the union recognition papers, Nader immediately transferred ownership in the Multinational Monitor to close friends who ran an organization (“Essential Information”) that Nader had set up. When Shorrock showed up for work the next day, he had been fired, the locks were changed, and management called the police to charge him with theft (of his own work papers.) That charge was thrown out of court, but management fired the two supportive editors and sued the three of them for $1.2 million, agreeing to drop the intimidation suit only when they dropped their NLRB complaint. All of these action are straight from the hardball anti-union playbook, and Nader makes no apology.

“How can we go out and try to save the world from people when we’re grinding people to death all the time?”– John Esposito, original staffer at Nader’s Center for the Study of Responsive Law

“Nader strikes me as conforming to the stereotype people have of sociologists and politicians: they bleed for the poor and downtrodden but mistreat their maids.” – David Sanford

So no one wants to be around Ralph Nader. And Ralph Nader is jealous that Bernie Sanders is playing the spoiler for yet another Democratic election. There’s nothing like Grumpy Old Socialists.