Stoner generation?
Gary Johnson? Millennials, You Can’t Be Serious.
[The] Libertarian Party is against foreign intervention of any kind, and many young people today are quite skeptical of our military entanglements.
Moreover, there are other issues—abortion rights, LGBT rights, criminal justice reform—where the interests of millennials and those of the Libertarian Party seem to align.
Yet on a host of others—some very serious issues which millennials hold dear—Johnson is utterly out of step with this demographic.
He doesn’t think the government should do a lick about climate change.
He supports TPP, Citizens United, and unapologetically opposes all forms of gun control.
Obamacare?
Johnson says only the free market should be involved in health insurance.
On perhaps the biggest issue among younger Sanders supporters—free college tuition—Gary Johnson will offer them nothing.
That’s Libertarianism for you.
But if so many of Johnson’s positions are anathema to millennials—polls confirm that millennials want way more government involvement on these issues, not less—why does he still poll so well with them?
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[C]ould it be, as some suggest, that it all just comes down to legalizing weed, something Johnson has repeatedly called for?
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