Media unreasonably attack Gary Johnson over “Favorite Leader” Question

Thing1 said:
I like Gary, but he's really not ready for prime time.

That said, I think Trump wouldn't have known "Aleppo" either. And I don't think quiz-stuff like that is a big deal for someone who hasn't been in Congress or somewhere else where they have to keep up w/ every situation around the world. And everyone has brain freezes.
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Trump wouldn't have known what Aleppo was, but he would've bullshitted his way through the answer and just rambled on about some nonsense unrelated to the question to hide that fact.
 
anatta said:
"Skeptic of intervention" is a mere political stance. .
No foreign aid, disengagement with Pakistan. "Be wary of consequences" - is either blather or isolationism -take you pick
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Uh.... yeah... and non-interventionism or isolationism are merely political stances. Your point?

I swear, you make some of the "head-scratchiest" posts.

Isolationism includes protectionism which is why the label is a better fit for your fuhrer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolationism#Introduction

anatta said:
Please don't concern yourself with my libertarian ideas. I'd engage you and spell out my leanings if you weren't an internet prick, but you are - so I don't.
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Speaking of that, I think I might go back to my old name as "Dick from the Internet."

But you still don't have an argument.
 
Hitler was an "isolationist" in the vein of Trump. Pulled Germany out of the League of Nations, introduced extreme protectionist measures. Of course he also invaded and plundered other countries, which is exactly Trump's plan (invade other countries just to "take their oil").
 
Hasa Diga Eebowai said:
Uh.... yeah... and non-interventionism or isolationism are merely political stances. Your point?

I swear, you make some of the "head-scratchiest" posts.

Isolationism includes protectionism which is why the label is a better fit for your fuhrer.
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military/foreign policy isolationism ( such as world wide disengagement) is a different bird then economic protectionism.

Isolationism is a doctrine. Johnson very much fits into it -I mean no foreign aid?
"Disengagement from Pakistan" ensures either the ISI will look for funding elsewhere, or become more corrupt.
It's a cop out foreign policy.

And no - "skeptical of interventions" is pure political blather. Who isn't?
Clinton perhaps who never met a war she didn't want in on - but for most other non-innate regime changers -it's just blather.
Speaking of that, I think I might go back to my old name as "Dick from the Internet."
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suit yourself. I don't give a fuck.

I swear, you make some of the "head-scratchiest" posts.
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forget it, you aren't worth engagement.
practice some isolationism and STFU to my posts then.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Economics



Economics[edit]

Right-libertarians are economic liberals of either the Austrian School or Chicago school and support laissez-faire capitalism,[62]

Left-libertarians (social and individualist anarchists, libertarian Marxists, and left-wing market anarchists) argue in favor of socialist theories such as communism, syndicalism, and mutualism (see Anarchist economics). Daniel Guérin writes that "anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State."[
 
I'm disappointed in Governor Johnson. I guess there's more than one big "Johnson" in this race.
I've been voting for Libertarians since '88, Ron Paul iirc. Andre Marrou in '92.
The following excerpted from U.S. Presidential candidate Libertarian Andre Marrou's
1992 stump speech.

"The annual subsidy for each American dairy cow is between $600-$700 dollars a year.
This is greater than the per capita income of half of the worlds population. And what do
we get for that? We get a price for milk and other dairy products that's double the
world's level.
Who does this impinge on? Primarily poor people with children. Rich people could care
less what the price of milk is. Poor people without children, they don't use much milk.
It's the poor people with children who are primarily hurt by this."
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I was genuinely enthusiastic about Marrou.

But Johnson seems like a fizzle.

Amazing he could say:
- the Pope
- Putin
- King Hussein
 
anatta said:
military/foreign policy isolationism ( such as world wide disengagement) is a different bird then economic protectionism.
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Isolationism is most commonly defined as including protectionist policies. Your response is akin to saying "birds are a different bird than sandhill cranes."

anatta said:
Isolationism is a doctrine. Johnson very much fits into it -I mean no foreign aid?
"Disengagement from Pakistan" ensures either the ISI will look for funding elsewhere, or become more corrupt.
It's a cop out foreign policy.
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The label does not fit due to his stances on trade and immigration.

anatta said:
And no - "skeptical of interventions" is pure political blather. Who isn't?
Clinton perhaps who never met a war she didn't want in on - but for most other non-innate regime changers -it's just blather.
suit yourself. I don't give a fuck.
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Blather? It's a descriptive label no different than isolationism, non-interventionism or protectionism.

Clinton, McCain and "Yeah, I guess so" Trump demonstrate no significant skepticism of interventions.

anatta said:
forget it, you aren't worth engagement.
practice some isolationism and STFU to my posts then.
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I will respond to whatever I care to. If you don't like it then I can suggest you contain your posts to threads you create and threadban me.
 
White people: "Black people should protest peacefully!"
*Black person sits quietly during national anthem*
White people: "No not like that."
@charlotteirene8

#93
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Thank you.
Enjoyed that.
 
#95

Didn't William F. Buckley Jr. suggest we'd have better political leadership if we picked them randomly from a phone book?

It may be a bad idea to grant political power to anyone that would want it / seek it.
 
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