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luan78zao
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07 Jun 2016, 4:50 pm

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You all have less than 14 hours to convince me that voting for Gary Johnson will provide some direct personal benefit for me.


You get to keep your self-esteem, knowing that the inevitable crimes committed by the federal government in the next four years are done without your sanction and approval.


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07 Jun 2016, 5:40 pm

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are you a rich white man with a desire to commit crimes, engage in self-destructive behavior, and get out of paying taxes? Then you just might be lucky enough to survive the apocalyptic libertarian vision for society.


You're thinking of the straw libertarians, a common mistake among the uninformed.


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07 Jun 2016, 6:01 pm

Gov. Johnson had one to best lines ever in a Republican President Primary Debate in 2012, when he said his neighbor's dog created more "shovel ready jobs" than Obama's stimulus package ever had.



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09 Jun 2016, 3:25 am

This is the best announcement from him yet. He even promises to give up weed while in the white house.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/07/gary- ... ite-house/


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21 Jul 2016, 10:31 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR4iAOqCnpI



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22 Jul 2016, 7:46 am

I agree with much of Viper's analysis. Johnson seems like a genuine civil libertarian, and that appeals to me. He's also in favour of the free market as a way of solving problems. Those two things are essential to any candidate I could get behind. However, Johnson goes too far in his destruction of government, and doesn't seem to have thought it through as well as he could have. The nature of market-based solutions is that you don't know exactly what will happen, just that it will probably benefit most people. What would Johnson do if the market priced people out of education?

If I were American, I'd consider voting for Johnson if I lived somewhere where I could do so without helping Donald Trump overtake Hillary Clinton. Ideally, I'd like to vote for a more centrist liberal. In 2012 I supported the Justice Party, but it seems that Anderson has drifted to the left and towards popularist posturing. Jill Stein in the Green Party is roughly as good a candidate as Johnson, but too far to the left, and probably still takes anti-science positions on important issues like energy and agriculture.