CNN to host Libertarian Town Hall

[diplomat019]

CNN will host a televised Townhall for the Libertarian ticket of Governors Gary Johnson and William Weld tonight at 9 pm eastern, the first time any non-major party candidates have been given this exposure.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/22/first-time-tv-cnn-host-libertarian-town-hall/amp/?client=safari#

[philoshop]

I wonder if there will be any stripping involved this time.

[diplomat019]

I wonder if there will be any stripping involved this time.

Lol. Lets hope not but it also depends on whose doing it.

Its going to good for people to hear what real freedom sounds like oppossed to what we have been hearing from the two parties so far.

[diplomat019]

https://www.google.com/amp/reason.com/blog/2016/06/22/sanders-voters-for-gary-johnson/amp?client=safari#

[philoshop]

I've read through the platform and the talking points. I agree with much of what's being said therein, but this election is too important for me to cast a 'protest vote'. The next president will be either Trump or Clinton. Choose wisely, or we may never see another chance to actually vote in this country. I'm not joking or being dramatic with that statement either.

[The_Field_Ager]

Libertarianism suffers from one huge flaw, namely it's 'neutrality' on moral issues. True libertarians support transgender mania and men in girls bathrooms and so forth. Interesting article by an ex-libertarian:

 

 

The theory says the state must remain carefully neutral in all cultural and moral questions: the use of intoxicating drugs for recreational use, suicide assisted or no, polygamy, prostitution, gambling, pornography, duels to the death (provided only all participants fully agree!) or, for that matter, copulating with a corpse on the roof of your house in plain view of the neighbors’ children playing in their backyards, and then eating the corpse, all must be legal.

For me, the intoxicating spell ended in three sharp realizations, each one as forceful as a thunderbolt.

Raising children

The first was when I had sons, and I realized that I could not maintain libertarian neutrality on how to raise my children. I had to teach them right from wrong, virtue from vice, and teach them prudence, justice, courage, and fortitude. Most of all I had to teach that morality is an objective truth. But teaching virtue is not like teaching geometry. Such things can only be taught by example. It has to be part of the mental environment. The culture always teaches the fundamental values of the culture, parents or no, because virtue is a habit.

Every moral lesson I wished to inculcate into my children was contradicted by a thousand examples in modern media. They tried their damnedest to teach my children error, to make their filth seem normal and cool. They were trying to addict them to vice, greed and lust most of all, but also to moral apathy disguised as tolerance, and envy disguised as equality. In states where marijuana has been made legal, it’s being offered in candy and soda pop, in order to lure the young and make customers for life.

I realized that the culture surrounding me was my enemy. Imagine being an antebellum Southern abolitionist trying to raise children to believe that all men were created equal, but with the entire slave-holding society, by a thousand silent examples, teaching the opposite. Even with the best will in the world, it is not possible for a mortal man to shield his children from everything in the culture. Should I live in a cave?

Libertarianism says my neighbors do me no wrong by exposing my children to child pornography, provided only force or fraud is not used. There is no public and objective standard of decency, honesty, prudence, and justice present in the libertarian theory: but a libertarian commonwealth could not stand were its children not trained from infancy to be decent, honest, prudent and just. It is, in short, a self-eliminating theory. It is a theory for bachelors.

Read more: http://www.everyjoe.com/2014/05/07/politics/why-im-no-longer-libertarian/#ixzz4CKRbF7qe

 

[diplomat019]

I've read through the platform and the talking points. I agree with much of what's being said therein, but this election is too important for me to cast a 'protest vote'. The next president will be either Trump or Clinton. Choose wisely, or we may never see another chance to actually vote in this country. I'm not joking or being dramatic with that statement either.

Im on board with you. This is an important election. But am i ready to vote trump just cause i refuse to vote hillary? Idk if im there to be honest. I don't necessarily agree with the notion of a protest vote in the sense you put it. If you believe in a candidates platform they should garner your vote, regardless of how big or small their party is. Otherwise we are just voting down party lines, and we will keep the status quo.