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Let Gary Johnson Debate, for Gods Sakes

• Joseph Steinberg

For many reasons, including positive long-term societal impacts, it is imperative that Gary Johnson be allowed to participate in the upcoming Presidential Debate.

For the sake of America and its future, the Commission on Presidential Debates should allow Presidential candidate, Governor Gary Johnson, to debate alongside Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at the September 26th Presidential Debate. The moral imperative to include Johnson emerges from the convergence of multiple factors, and holds true regardless of for whom any particular person intends to vote.

1. Johnson is not a typical third-party candidate.

While third-party candidates in US Presidential elections are often fringe, practically-speaking un-electable, and un-experienced in political office, Gary Johnson is a centrist, former two-term Republican Governor of a generally Democratic-leaning state, who has more experience as a government executive than Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump combined, and has won more elections than the two of them combined as well. He has also been endorsed by several major newspapers that historically do not endorse third-party candidates.

2. Americans want another choice.

In general, Americans are dissatisfied with the candidates presented to them by both of the two major parties; both Clinton and Trump have disapproval ratings of well over 50%, a highly unusual, sad situation going into a presidential election. Allowing the most popular third-party candidate to debate, which, de facto, establishes his campaign as a viable alternative, could transform this race from one in which many people feel forced to vote against someone into one in which they feel enabled to cast a ballot for someone whom they actually wish to see elected.

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Comment by Nelson Waller
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Well, I knew the author of this trash was going to be a Jew before I even looked. Johnson is an abomination and deserves ZERO attention, ZERO credit ZERO participation. Harry Browne he ain't!! Don't look now, Libertarians, but your religion is belly-up. gLiberal Jewish manipulators have pushed everything so far to the left -- right on schedule according to their universal system -- Libertarianism is Jewish gliberalism in everything but name. Your movement was never more than conservatism for liberals -- and vice versa. I'm sorry to be the one to telling you this -- talk about a painful duty! I'm not anti-semitic. Jews aren't semites. So much for that angle. THANK YOU Freedom's Phoenix for all the wonderful other work you do!