| SamuelRSmith said: I don't know how I feel about that. On the one hand, if we want to win people over to the Libertarian pov, we need more "from-the-gut" guys, as this is how most people would approach it, and maybe somebody who spends half the time talking about the time preference indictaed by interest rates, or something like that, would just turn voters off. On the other hand, we need people who know this stuff inside-and-out to be able to make a mockery of the other candidates, and the pundits/talking heads on TV. So that people can see that they're not always right. |
I think the latter are what is needed. John Stossel started out as a crusading journalist looking for crooked businesses and the like. His initial assumption - like most people's - was that the government always needed "to do something about it". Then he realized that the market self-regulates surprisingly well, and government mostly just fucks up whatever it touches. His ability to articulate why libertarianism works even though it seems so counterintuitive to most people makes him a far better ambassador than a guy like Gary Johnson, who is just a likeable guy and capable former governor.
