Rrhain writes:
Johnson is pulling a significant portion of his voters from younger voters, who are also more likely to be concerned about climate change.
Why is he a significant candidate again?
You asked, and the answer is reasonably simple.
First, Gary Johnson is absolutely wrong on not just climate change but also income inequality - I hope we can agree on that point.
(Also, would you liberals please stop wimping out - it's global warming just like it's deferred compensation, not entitlements and liberal. not progressive - damn chickenshits bowing to Rupert Murdock).
However, "climate change" (ugh) is but one of many issues, albeit the most important one. How about the others?
As I said before Johnson is completely wrong about the second most important issue - namely income inequality. There is an easy fix in simply taxing capital gains and dividends at an equal or greater rate than earned wages - problem largely (but not completely for everyone) solved.
So will Hillary Clinton support this first step? I have heard nothing.
Wars of choice are expensive, they hurt the US wage earner and kill those of
every age and gender. Johnson and Jill Stein are against wars of choice, Clinton - ahem - Libya, Iraq, who knows where else. Thank God Bernie Sanders was not the President of Honduras for he would be homeless now at best and his nation would now be the murder capitol of the world for the next few years.
Millennials don't just think black lives matter, they even extend such compassion and empathy to (heaven forbid) Central Americans, who incidentally due to Clinton, among others (yeah, you too Obama), are responsible for a large part of illegal immigration from people fleeing the chaos they themselves created. Unlike the idiot who gives the color orange a bad name and falsely blames it on Mexico - it's not Il Duce it's Ill Douche.
Some may be selling but millennials ain't buying.
Gary Johnson will flat-out veto any and every bill until the budget is balanced, unlike Republicans who balloon the budget deficit to pay off their rich contributor buddies or Democrats who - while making an effort - also fail at elementary school math.
Gary Johnson will end the incarceration industrial complex, Bill Clinton, with Hillary's blessing, helped create it. Sheet - Johnson smokes weed, love to share some of Colorado's finest with him.
I lived in New Mexico when Gary Johnson was the Governor. Best damn Governor the state ever had. He really hates corruption and even had the leader of the State Senate arrested for taking bribes. I have only voted for a Republican for a major office three times in my life and this one is the one I am most proud of.
Millennials don't like corruption either and they are certainly more against it than Boomers or Xers have shown.
Most importantly to Millennials, Johnson is genuine like Bernie Sanders, he is not a fake or phony, unlike traditional bribe-taking politicians.
There is even more, but Rrhain, you are quite intelligent, I think you get the point. Some Millennials take the entirety of their concerns and weigh the balance to see which side tips the scales. In the end, I think most will vote for Clinton because, rightfully so, Trump is the worst scum since Sarah Palin.
As for me I agree with my daughter. If Clinton is within the margin of error for the state poll, I will hold my nose and vote for her just to keep the criminal con man (who belongs in prison, but money buys justice - another thing Millennials hate) Trump from winning. Other than that it's Jill Stein all the way even though I am appalled by her inability to call the anti-vax people what they truly are - child murderer enablers.
Or I may just go full Millennial and write in Bernie. Ball's in your court Jill.
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon
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