Planks of a Party
Every Democratic campaign on earth has sent me some garbage about what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would do if he were alive today. Naturally, each one implies that Dr. King would be pushing that campaign's message, staffing their phones, and so on. None dare suggest that he might not be very pleased with their particular political party, or really concerned about each man and woman's paycheck stretching out to the end of the week.
I started this morning looking at the platform of Canada's New Democratic Party, as in, maybe we could start an affiliate rather than go through the tedious mess of actually forming a Party under very restrictive rules, or having to join the Greens and have to put up with their culture of even-handedness towards those with a surplus of social capital and those with much, much less than even sufficiency.
- Studies show that American-style private health care leads to more deaths, costs more money and reduces accessibility. ... In the United States, the private delivery model is so expensive that the governments there spend more per capita providing health care than do the governments in Canada -- while leaving many Americans outside of hospital doors looking in.
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Tomorrow could be Black Thursday or Black Friday or Black Monday (isn't Wikipedia fun?) and it won't change the hair of a single DNC/DLC/... elite who's already decided to win with one or the other or both of the Senators from New York and Illinois.
Nader's spoke at the Engineers Without Borders National Conference in Montréal on Friday. On the CBC's "Radio's Daybreak" show this morning he was asked about running in the current cycle. His answer:
I'll decide in about a month. What I'm deciding on right now is whether we can get enough volunteers, enough financial resources to overcome the huge ballot access obstacles, which you don't experience here in Canada, but which are the worst in the Western world in the United States.
That's about right. In a month we'll know who the DNC is fronting, and the RNC as well.
Media coverage: Reuters, Le Monde, RTT News.
Then there's Nader on Edwards, here at Reuters.
