Gary Johnson Is a Moron (And If You Vote For Him, You Are Too) - Dan Savage

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http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/09/26/24582285/gary-johnson-is-a-moron-and-if-you-vote-for-him-you-are-too

Excerpt from a nice, meaty essay:

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Stein isn't polling (pulling?) as well Johnson, but Stein gets more attention because she's better at trolling than Johnson is—actually, a troll is all Stein is.

Johnson is the former two-term Republican governor of the semi-important, semi-swingy state of New Mexico. William Weld, Johnson's running mate, is the former two-term Republican governor of Massachusetts. Johnson is pulling at at roughly 10-ish percent compared to Stein's 3-ish percent. But while you might expect Johnson's support to come largely from disaffected/Never-Trump Republicans (of which there are fewer and fewer and fewer), that isn't the case.

"Johnson's support comes disproportionately from young Democrats and Independents who supported Bernie Sanders in the primary," Jedd Lugam writes at Think Progress

That's nuts.

Name an issue Sanders ran on—TPP, Citizen's United, climate change, the minimum wage, health care, free college tuition—and Johnson is on the opposite side. Sanders wants to raise the minimum wage, Johnson doesn't think there should be a minimum wage; Sanders wants a single payer health-care system, aka "Medicare for all," Johnson wants to eliminate Medicare and let the free market work its magic; Sanders opposed TPP, Johnson supports TPP; Sanders wants the federal government to guarantee free college tuition, Johnson wants to eliminate what little support the federal government currently provides to college students; Sanders thinks climate change is a threat to humanity, Johnson thinks we shouldn't do anything to address climate change because colonizing habitable planets we haven't yet discovered is the far easier solution—and, hey, Earth is going to be swallowed up by the sun billions of years from now so let's eliminate all regulations on the energy industry and destroy Earth ourselves before the sun has a chance.
"In Johnson’s America, corporations will be completely in charge of the environment, health care, retirement, trade and wages," writes Legum. "This should not be appealing to former Bernie Sanders supporters. But, up until now, it has been. And whether it remains that way could have a big impact on the outcome of the 2016 election."

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[vlyons]

1. single issue voter

legalize recreational cannabis

[BlancheSplanchnik]

2. Also guns.

Gun jumpers love him too.

[tonyt53]

3. No argument from me.

[milestogo]

4. Any Sanders follower who votes for Johnson

probably doesn't understand the positions of either one.

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. I thought it was all about the wars

including the failed war on drugs. Those are two things I think most Dems agree with Libertarians about. Everything else those loons stand for is GOP establishment on steroids.