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Libertarian Candidate Michael Badnarik Interview

Posted by michael on from the bad-to-the-bone dept.

Lowtekium writes "On November 2nd many young adult Americans will go to the polls to vote for their next President, but very few of them know of the Libertarian Presidential Candidate, Michael Badnarik. JIVE Magazine had the chance to interview Mr. Badnarik. He gives his thoughts on various topics that affect young adults such educational aid and funding for college students, video game violence, and even music and entertainment censorship."

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  1. Re:Why do they even bother? by dykofone · · Score: 2, Informative
    If you just count the voter turnout during a presidential election of about 100 million people, that means that there are at least one million people who are voting for these "1%" candidates.

    And that's just the people that have the balls to vote third party. I'm sure there are even more who live in a swing state and would rather vote against the worst candidate than vote how they really feel. Not to mention all of the people who have never even heard of the 3rd party candidates thanks to the media.

    People will flip out in rage against the tobacco industry if they hear a statistic like "20,000 people die every year from second hand smoke," but if you hear "one million people are so fed up that they voted Libertarian" it gets shrugged off.

    Sorry for the pathetic metaphor, but small percentages can still be big numbers, especially when those small percentages are drastically more informed than your typical voter.

  2. Why reestablish the draft boards then? by slithytove · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're right that the bill was not serious. On the other hand, how do you explain this

  3. It's simple by scotay · · Score: 3, Informative

    The constitution limits the areas where the federal government gets to tell us what to do to those specifically enumerated. All the other areas are left to the state or local governments, or to the people themselves. If we want to grant further federal rights to tell us what to do, we go through the rather laborious process of amending the constitution. It's hardly anarchist or even complicated. It's just confusing because our well meaning, progressive notions bulldozed through those complications by popular demand. Now we have unlimited government and EVERYTHING is political and we wonder what we can do stop becoming a totalitarian nation. Constitutionally limited government is the Libertarian answer to that problem.