Gary Johnson has been taking full advantage of the current Presidential fiasco that is the Republican and Democrat’s candidates and campaign. He has been slowly creeping up in the polls by gaining voters from both parties due to the lack of appeal for Hillary and Trump. Recently he spoke at a Town Hall meeting and praised Black Lives Matter and their “worthy cause”.
If there was any doubt, Gov. Gary Johnson is working harder at winning over former Bernie Sanders supporters than Ron and Rand Paul supporters. For whatever reason, he’s taken on several left-wing positions from bashing religious freedom to now supporting Black Lives Matter.
At the CNN Libertarian Party Town Hall on Wednesday, Johnson praised the efforts of Black Lives Matter and endorsed the organization.
Speaking to a Black Lives Matter protestor and registered Democrat who was shot in the leg during a march, Johnson said, “What it has done for me is that my head has been in the sand on this,” Johnson said. “I think that we’ve all had our heads in the sand and lets wake up. Discrimination does exist, has existed, and for me personally, um, slap, slap, wake up.”
The Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee Bill Weld focused less on the Black Lives Matter movement and more on the stats of black youth unemployment, calling it a national emergency.
“(Young black men) are four times as likely to be incarcerated if they have intersection with law enforcement as white people are, their educational opportunities are not there, we have to get them into education and concentrate the power of the government to make sure there are jobs available for them,” Weld said. “When there’s a national emergency the government has to respond, libertarian or no libertarian.”
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There was definitely some appeal to Johnson but this, among other things, has sealed the deal for me. I will not put my name behind anyone who believes what these domestic terrorists are doing is justified. How about you? Does this make your decision abut the man any easier?