I flirted with the idea of voting for Gary Johnson for a while. He lost me when he said that unless the Government forces Christians to bake cakes for gay weddings, then the streets will run red with the blood of religious violence. He also lost me on his “no limits” mass immigration policy; he’s actually a ranting lunatic on the topic of illegal immigration. Also, because he picked a running mate who thinks using a secret Government list with no Constitutional protections to bar people from exercising their human right of self-defense is a good idea.
‘The Atlantic’ — a place where pompous left-wingers publish articles for other pompous left-wingers also find Gary Johnson appalling. But they find him appalling for the only things I actually like about him.
The Libertarian candidate’s economic ideas are so radical they make Trump seem downright moderate. He would abolish federal income taxes, replace the current tax code with a more regressive national consumption tax, cut Medicare and Medicaid by 40 percent, push for a constitutional amendment to forbid the U.S. to run deficits even during downturns, ban federal bailouts of states, and seek to eliminate the Federal Reserve.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And Yes. More economic freedom! Less intrusive Government! An end to crony capitalism! A thousand times yes. But not at the expense of religious freedom and the import of hundreds of millions of third-world migrants who will drive down American wages and vote for socialists. When they’re not driving around listening to raps and shooting all the jobs.
The notion that Government should be reduced to a manageable size, that the economy should be allowed to grow with minimal interference, and that people should be… well, free… is the stuff that absolutely turns the stomachs of left-wingers. They want to run our lives, and want us to pay them for the privilege.
I never did pay attention to Libertarians until the past few years. Being shocked at at Ron Paul’s own foreign policy reality ignorance at a debate or two & previously understanding their vision of an America without Federalism which, frankly, would make it impossible to travel across because a hodgepodge of “sovereign” laws would exist, requiring all sorts of regional nonsense & voter inspired “good ideas”. But Johnson’s recent revelation that he essentially knows nothing, about anything, outside the US was a bit much. All of which leads me to believe he hijacked the “good idea” about Fed income tax because someone had whispered it into his ear hoping it’d be a plus. I don’t see anything radical about Trump, unless one considers his tailgate good old boy habit of rambling on about whatever comes to mind, instead of quite common to the American male. None of which bothers those that originally threw in with him & those that decided to go with the flow against Hillary. I believe the Dems attack him now because they don’t want him to grab any Bernie-heads as a spoiler for them as they scrape the sides of the container looking for votes. He’s toast anyway, so it’s a bit cruel to keep kicking the dead horse.
The Spanish national government has been running on auto-pilot for the last 10-months as the political parties are deadlocked, and the economy is recovering nicely. Belgium barely had functioning governments from 2007-2011, and it took 541 days from the 2010 elections to form a new government without the nation grinding to a halt. Our own Federal government has shut-down several-times except for “essential” civil employees, and most Americans didn’t notice the difference.
Why can’t we just permanently-dismiss say-half of the non-essential federal employees as an experiment??
And while we’re at it, let’s re-assign or retire half the flag-officers at the Pentagon and in the field commands, …and their bloated civil and military support staffs.
Gary Johnson also lost me with that rant, when he “corrected” the interviewer and insisted on referring to illegal immigrants as “undocumented.” He says that enforcing our immigration laws would lead to house-to-house searches and a Gestapo-like police force checking everyone’s papers. But his running mate seems to be OK with a secret government list of suspected “terrorists.” A list that The Atlantic, the New York Times, and the ACLU all denounced for its total lack of objective criteria or due process. (More recently, though, the NYT and Atlantic endorsed Obama’s “No Fly=No Buy” proposal. With Barry as POTUS instead of Bush, the Left has Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the List.)
The Libertarians, like the Democrats, and the Republican party leaders (if not the rank-and-file), oppose immigration reform. Whether it’s Clinton, Bush, or Johnson, these people are not going to mop their own floors or mow their own lawns. And they don’t want to pay American citizens (whether natives or legal immigrants) a decent wage to do it. “Undocumented” immigrants are a great source of cheap labor.
While I am voting for Johnson, he is not as credible as when he ran four years ago. His support of a carbon tax, more immigration, and too isolationist foreign policy are wrong, but he is good on economic issues. So he is the best of the four main candidates.
Exactly!
You mean it wasn’t when he called Mormons terrorists?
The libertarian VP just said that HilLIARy is the best presidential candy date. The FREE POT party shouldn’t have smoked its own
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/libertarian-vp-pick-bill-weld-says-hillary-clinton-qualified-candidate-president/
You forgot Byrdland, known to most of America as West Virginia.