The following is an abridgment of a post by Flimsy Sanity. It lists some of Nader's hot buttons.
1) crackdown on the corporate crime, fraud, and abuse.
2) demand that workers receive a living wage instead of a minimum wage.
3) withdraw from the WTO and NAFTA.
4) income tax system to be substantially revamped so that workers can keep more of their wages while we tax the things we like least, such as pollution, stock speculation, addictive industries, and energy guzzling technologies.
5) a single payer health system.
6) candidates stand up to the commercial interests profiting from our current energy situation.
7) reduction in the military budget
8) electoral reform.
9) failed war on drugs that costs nearly $50 billion annually.
10) The candidates will ignore the diverse Israeli peace movement whose members have developed accords for a two state solution with their Palestinian and American counterparts.
11) stand up to business interests that have backed changes to our civil justice system that restrict or close the courtroom to wrongfully injured and cheated individuals, but not to corporations.
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All very fine, if he stood a snowball in Hell's chance of being elected. Under the present political system in this country, the sad truth is that a vote for Nader works as a vote for the Republican party. At this next election the nation can't afford to give votes away to the (likely) Republican candidate.
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