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Gary Johnson Is the Ticket for Libertarians
Alternative to Clinton, Trump
Gary Johnson is the Libertarian candidate for President. As a former Republican Governor of New Mexico, a chiefly Democratic state, Johnson cut taxes, balanced the state budget, and took New Mexico from having one of the highest unemployment rates in the country to one of the least. His running mate, William Weld, did the same for Massachusetts.
In addition to his political success, Johnson has climbed the tallest mountain on each of Earth’ s
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continents( including Mt. Everest), he is an iron-man triathlete, and is a successful entrepreneur.
Eventually, Johnson’ s disagreements with the Republican Party’ s intolerant social policies and warmongering foreign policy led him to leave the Republicans and officially join the Libertarian Party.
Libertarians are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. They believe in keeping the government out of your wallet and out of your bedroom, and tend to have a non-interventionist
foreign policy. As Austin Peterson
Gary Johnson said, Libertarians want“ a world where gay married couples can defend their marijuana fields with fully automatic machine guns.” Who can’ t get behind that?
Along with Johnson’ s fiscal responsibility and socially tolerant policies, one of his most attractive characteristics is that he is not Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. He is currently polling at around 6 percent of the United States popular vote, with higher numbers than either Trump or Clinton among millennials and active duty military.
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this in the first place?
Now, the Clinton Foundation. Hillary claims to be a champion of women’ s rights, but I don’ t see how this can be true when she accepts millions of dollars from countries, like Saudi Arabia, that suppress women.
Mrs. Clinton’ s lack of clarity can be seen in her Wall Street speeches, in which she stated that one must have a private and a public view of economics in order to run for office. She condemned half of Trump supporters as“ deplorable and irredeemable.” She is out of touch with everyday Americans. The thing that frightens me most is
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unacceptable comments about women and young girls for years, along with xenophobic tirades against the Latino and Muslim communities in the name of some idealistic crusade to“ Make America Great Again.” But what is her inability to connect with voters. From visiting families as First Lady of Arkansas to seeing African villages as Secretary of State, Clinton has been talking to real people with real life experiences, yet she seems so robotic. For the life of me, I can’ t comprehend how Trump, who has been served by butlers in his golden Trump Tower, can connect with voters while Hillary cannot.
Yes, Donald Trump has major character and policy issues, but there is no perfect choice this year. If you care about the Supreme Court, the Second Amendment, abortion, etc., I encourage you to do your best to put your strife aside and vote for him. He is the only person that can keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House.
really startling is the amount of inappropriate sexual misconduct allegations pointing towards“ The Donald” – enough to give a logical person some red flags about the man.
All in all, despite his untrustworthy and vile opponent being an option, Trump should NOT assume the role of the 45th President of the United States.
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