Gary Johnson on Stossel show
Posted by jimjamesjames 8 years, 8 months ago to Politics
Just saw Gary Johnson and William weld on the Stossel show. The question was should a bakery be forced to sell their product to a gay couple? Johnson's answer was insane. He said yes, but the baker does not have to decorate the cake.....Stossel on Fox Business Channel, August 5.
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He stutters and dances around this issue a bit because he does not want to give critics a sound bite to suggest his libertarian ideas a veil for or part of someone's agenda to discriminate. He won't explicitly say gov't should force people to sell a cake, but he wants to avoid any accusations that he wants to support discrimination.
I think we need to change the whole notion of gov't force being the default, and if we not using gov't force against something we must support it. We need to be able to say we're opposed to drug abuse or discrimination w/o wanting gov't force. We need to be able to say we're for helping the poor and supporting cancer research without the gov't being the one to fund it.
Johnson can't seem to make these philosophical arguments in the TV show forum. It's "discrimination: for or against?" He says "against".
While we are struggling with this, Trump and Clinton are openly saying they want to use gov't to help good people like you and punish bad people who are different from you. We should cut Gov Johnson some slack. He's not a natural at politics, which is a good thing. He's trying to say he's against discrimination in a way people hearing a sound bite will understand.