IIRC the libertarian party wants to return to the gold standard and was a big defender of private prisions.
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Meant to say presidential candidate. Maybe for a state it's ok, though I wouldn't call him a resounding success. He seems like a nice guy, but the amount of faith that libertarians put into the free market is too simple a world view to me. There has to be a balance between free market capitalism and government regulation. You can't swing too far in either direction. And adopting purely free-market practices would have terrible consequences these days anyways.
Ultimately, the question of big government/small government doesn't matter. All that matters is that the government you do have works. Sure, people have complaints about our government now, but the size of the government is not the issue.
Electing a President doesn't mean that they'll get every last thing they want enacted. While Johnson definitely has some views that I would personally consider crank views, the overall direction that he'd like to go is something that I would generally consider a net plus. When considering a President, I think it's more valuable to consider where we presently are, what a President can do, and what direction we'd move than thinking about it purely from what my ideals would be.
As a libertarian, I agree with a lot of his polices, although I feel his foreign policy is weak and his military budget proposals a joke, and his immigration policy disasterous, Outside of that, I like the dude. He is heads and shoulders better than the two idiots currently running
Yes, I've always wanted to talk about Cave Johnson. Wait, this is about Gary Johnson? Who?
Johnson has a good point. Quite frankly Syria is none of our damn business. Let the Russians handle it, Putin seems to be friends with Assad anyway.
We already took 2 dictators (Hussein and Gaddafi) out of power and look what happened to their countries. History has shown that the Middle East needs these kinds of assholes for leaders to keep their unsavory types in check.
Good old Gary gets in. Ramps up the Privatising of prisons (half the prison population) with three strike laws. Destroys the reforms made after Santa Fe 1980s riots (which led to better conditions for prisoners and two decades without a instance of deadly violence) overnight. Worst riots in two decades. 'Coincidentally' after recieving campaign donations from Geo Group (Wackenhut at the time) he chose them to run the private prisons he was introducing.