Top 5 Things Missing from the Debate without Gary Johnson

Top 5 Things Missing from the Debate without Gary Johnson

by Aya Katz

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president, has not been invited to the debate to be held tonight, even though he is on the ballot in all fifty states plus the District of Columbia. He will be conspicuous by his absence.

The Commission on Presidential Debates, which is run by a cartel of Washington insiders from the Republican and Democratic parties, wants to keep Johnson out. They say it is because he does not have 15% in the polls, but they have in some instances refrained from adequately polling the one demographic in which Johnson is doing better than the other candidates: 18-to-34-year-olds. Johnson is also polling very well with independents of all ages, but the Commission on Presidential debates is apparently not interested in the opinions of independents.

The debate is designed to make the American public believe that on Tuesday, November 8, they have one of two choices: Evil Number One or Evil Number Two; Pepsi or Coke.

Gary Johnson is the “uncola.” He is a completely different choice. And when he is missing from the debate, a number of important elements go missing, too.

5.  Overhauling the Bureaucracy

Gary Johnson wants to completely overhaul the Federal bureaucracy. He would do away with the Department of Homeland Security, the IRS, the DEA and the Department of Education. Neither of the other two candidates are even considering anything like this. They want business as usual, with an expansion of the federal government for their own pet projects, whether it be a wall to keep people out or a stop and frisk policy to strip us of more civil liberties, or the grandiose plan of confiscating all our guns and nationalizing the medical profession, so that everyone can have “free” health care. Both major candidates want to continue to ruin our education system with government incentives and mandates. Neither wants to set us free to make our own choices.

Johnson is completely different. He does not want to pass more laws telling us what to do. Instead, he wants to do away with the choke-hold that government has on our lives. Johnson believes we should choose how to live, what to put in our bodies, how we can spend our own money, and what we want to teach our children. He believes that we as individuals have more competence to make the important decisions about our lives than any government official. But the people in Washington do not want us to hear about that.