Gary Johnson

The presidential election has brought a lot of people to at least look outside of their party on both sides to see if there is anyone worth voting for. The most popular being the Libertarian candidate for president Gary Johnson.

While I do lean on the smaller government end of the spectrum libertarianism is a little beyond my political position. So normally I wouldn't really look at their candidate, but of course this isn't a normal election year. All that being said I looked up Mr. Johnson to see if he might be a beam of light in an otherwise dark race.

He didn't start off well. The first thing I found was his interview where he failed to know what Aleppo was. That wasn't encouraging, but hey, sometimes you just study the wrong stuff and get asked questions you should know the answer to, but just don't... Then I read his opinion on abortion. I realize some people are pro-abortion, but advocating legal abortion while personally being pro-life is one of the most intellectually inconsistent positions you can have.

Now, both of those things are bad, but everyone has a couple issues here and there where you don't completely agree. So then I went on to read about his position on immigration. In short, he says if we fix the process for bringing in legal immigrants that would fix our illegal immigration issue and border security wouldn't work anyway so let's not waste the money. At this point I am really questioning his understanding of the way the world works. Especially given the fact that he was the governor of New Mexico. Sure we should reform immigration, but bad people do like to come into our country on occasion and maybe we should try to stop that.

The death knell though was this article. In it he talks about religious liberty in a way that blows my mind. You really should read it. There is too much to give a concise review. It's terrible. I think the worst bit, and the bit that made me seriously question the "libertarian" label he carries is the statement "it is the [federal] governments job to prevent discrimination in all cases." I'm not a big fan of discrimination and all, but for a libertarian to make a statement like that is beyond the pale.

So, I am sorry Mr. Johnson. You will not be getting my vote. I'd rather vote for Trump to keep Hillary out than vote for you and your terribly half baked policy stances and general ignorance.