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Thanks! I know Yang's active, but I wasn't aware he was that active. I hope he gets traction; it's a steep, nearly impossible hill for third parties.
You might want to look at who his allies are and what his current policies are compared to what he claimed they were.
That's good advice. Is there something in particular you think I should look out for?
I mostly go by stated planks and policies, and I admit I have assumed they haven't changed much; when I do see news about him, nothing much seems to have changed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dd399ppGoBU
OK. I'm sorry. That video is over an hour long, and even skipping forward through the toilet humor puppet parts, I found it hard to watch.
But I did watch far enough to grab this screenshot
which is the Forward Party's planks. I take it you object to some of them? The YouTuber obviously did. I sat through his mocking the idea that the government should make policy on divisive issues based on facts (science) and, failing that, listening to the citizens and letting popular opinion decide policy. I dropped out before hearing his opinion on human-centered capitalism, although I could almost smell the laissez-faire economics through the screen, so I'm guessing he was equally dismissive of that.
If he mocked (and, could he not have?) the "Effective and Modern-Day Government," well, I can't blame him, because I don't know WTF that means, either.
But, oh, if that guy's a libertarian, and I've got a buck that says he is, then I'll bet UBI really got him worked up. Although, I'd like to hear his solution for when ML eliminates white collar jobs, including his.
"Grace and Tolerance" are just being good people. It's sad it has too be included as a plank, but considering that one party is objectively and openly opposed to any form of grace or tolerance (except tolerance of intolerance - Nazis deserve to be in government, too!), it's not absurd that the Forward Party included it. It's a sort of "Do no evil" company motto that served well, until accountants took over.
I got about a third of the way through before I bailed. Not my kind of humor, and I think from my brief exposure, I think I'd really dislike that guy as a person. He looks like someone I'd end up punching because he's pushing his girlfriend around outside of a club.
Lol, incredible. Cody Johnston is for sure a libertarian, you have demonstrated incredible insight and intellectual rigor.
I think you're exactly the kind of voter the Forward Party is looking for!
Someone who wants to know what they actually stand for, but, not, like, by doing something that would take more than 15 minutes.