Sunday, October 4, 2020

Presidential candidates on the VT ballot 2020, part 2

Continued from part 1... 

Blake Huber & Frank Atwood; Approval Voting.  Just a half-assed party wordpress site for a one-issue party.

Jo Jorgensen & Jeremy "Spike" Cohen; Libertarian. The issues page lays out a number of problems that I agree are problems: soaring national debt & healthcare costs, wars, high imprisonment rate, etc., and there some parts of proposed solutions in the platform that are usable, but then there are statements like, "I will get rid of the FDA’s efficacy requirement, if not the entire FDA," as if every individual has the means to determine for themselves whether a drug is safe and effective.  This would take us straight back to the quackery days of U.S. healthcare. 

Alyson Kennedy & Malcolm Jarrett; Socialist Workers.  The candidates do not appear to have a campaign website and the party itself does not appear to have a website other than their weekly publication The Militant.  Had to hunt a bit to find their platform.  I support workers banding together, but don't think Cuba's 1959 revolution is a good example of the kind of transformation we need in the U.S.

Kyle Kenley Kopitke & Taja Yvonne Iwanow; Independent.  Campaign wordpress site accuses the Democrats & Republicans of trying to give control of the "American internet" to a "Globalist Agency" that "will lead to the brutal censorship of many Great Alternative American News Media websites."

Christopher Lafontaine & Michael Speed; Independent.  Campaign website has no plan or statements on issues.

Gloria La Riva & Sunil Freeman; Liberty Union.  Website has a brief 10-point program.  On point #2, I don't believe Socialism will save the earth.  On #5, while I'm for reduced military spending, I don't think we can do away with all of it.  On #10, we do need a better way to bring white collar criminals to justice, but I don't think Socialism solves this.

Keith McCormic & Sam Blasiak; Bull Moose.  The website makes the platform easy to find (yay!).  Sadly, when I click on A Bold Vision, I get "Nothing Found" (sigh).  The platform is an interesting read, and has some things to agree with, but also contains statements like "Today, we have foreign nations and traitor Neoliberals brainwashing troubled youth and giving money to extremist groups like the Klu Klux Klan, Communists, Anarchists, Nazis, and other hate groups who are trying to overthrow our government."

Continued in part 3.

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