No, none of these guys are going to get even 5% of the vote, much less win any elections, but many of you have been emailing me with basic questions about the libertarian stance. This is a good video that covers many of the basics. As an added bonus, one of the debaters is none other than my favorite crazy old Alpha Male, John McAfee! Yay! (He’s the coolest man over 60 in the universe. I’m going to try to interview him soon.)
After watching this debate and comparing it to any Democrat or Republican debate, you’ll see how common-sense a lot of these solutions are.
A few points that stood out to me:
– As Gary Johnson pointed out, Libertarian doesn’t mean “poor people all starve.” Government can still help people, provided it’s people who deserve help and it’s done at the local level. I already explained this here. The problem isn’t about having zero welfare state, it’s that the US and Europe have gone mad with welfare state to ridiculous, insane and unsustainable extremes.
– The US Department of Commerce promotes corporatism, not capitalism.
– The federal government gives every state 11 cents for every education dollar it spends. The problem is it mandates the state to spend 15 cents of requirements for this 11 cents.
– The Department of Education was established under Jimmy Carter. How has the US educational system improved in any way since Jimmy Carter?
– We have terrorism because we get too involved in other country’s affairs, as I already explained here.
– McAfee points out that we’re 20 years behind both China and Russia in terms of cyber-security, and there are ways to track terrorists and protect ourselves from them without violating the privacy of private citizens.
– “Foreign Aid” is not about food or medicine for starving people. It’s about propping up corrupt government leaders in foreign lands.
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Jack Outside the Box
Posted at 07:00 am, 11th April 2016“This video is no longer available because the uploader has closed their youtube account.”
Caleb Jones
Posted at 09:09 am, 11th April 2016Damn YouTubers. Fixed.
The video is a little jerky but it works now.
Tim
Posted at 11:49 am, 11th April 2016I can probably help you get in contact with McAfee. He lives in the next town over from me, and one of my good friends has interviewed him for our local newspaper (He’s a hell of a character). If you’d like, I’ll see if I can get his contact info from her.
Caleb Jones
Posted at 12:48 pm, 11th April 2016I thought he was living in Portland, but yeah, do it. Email me whatever you have.
Gil Galad
Posted at 10:40 am, 12th April 2016CJ, are you notified on new comments posted on old articles ? I had a question for you but it felt off topic and I don’t know if you’ll see it if I post it on the relevant article.
Caleb Jones
Posted at 11:02 am, 12th April 2016Yep. Go for it.
David
Posted at 04:38 pm, 12th April 2016Wow, great to see the Libertarians get a little love from the mainstream media.
Overall, I found myself agreeing with John McAfee the most. But as other’s have said in the comments of these videos, any of these candidates would be a significant improvement over the Dem/Rep. candidates.
By the way, hope you get interview McAfee soon. Seems like one cool, intelligent dude to hang around.
Gluteus_Maximus
Posted at 07:45 pm, 14th April 2016Wow, McAfee’s voice is straight up a gift from God. It almost makes me swoon like a little girl. Lmao
Despite all the headlines and controversy, I never bothered to look into the guy until your article. Found myself completely immersed with interview after interview after interview, even taking a slight look into DefCon and the hacker community.
I’m quite computer literate. Not advanced, but much higher than average, I build my own machines. But he makes me wish I was more of a computer programming nerd. Lmao only a super awesome guy can make that shit seem really cool. I see what you mean when you say coolest over 60 year old “in the universe.”
And I had never pieced together the larger, bigger perspective of cyber-science-security. It just never occurred to me. The guy is a genius.
Thanks for mentioning him. I always fucking Love finding out about Badass Motherfuckers.
Caleb Jones
Posted at 02:55 pm, 15th April 2016Definitely. I could write an entire book about John McAfee. He’s that interesting.