Pick your battles. Attacking everything everywhere doesn't build your case. Million Mom's might want to focus on getting something done instead of lashing out at everyone. But I guess it's a way to get attention.
That's interesting that is the norm in that field. It doesn't build a lot of confidence in the field. However sometimes broken people are the best to help broken people.
They have underground sidewalks like this in Seattle too. The tour offered through the Seattle Underground is very interesting. It feels like a lot like Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere book.
It is also a question of whether it is real wealth or just the perks of being in office. If Putin were to leave office would he be as wealthy? That might explain why he's worked so hard to stay on as the leader of Russia instead of finishing up after a couple of terms.
We would make mincemeat using actual meat, usually venison, it made a kind of sweetened meet pie. Later at a renfaire I had a meat pie and thought yep that's what we called mincemeat.