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Anonymous
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HONOLULU, August 20, 2012 ― For weeks, former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson’s campaign has been releasing short, often humor filled PSA-like videos on YouTube highlighting the practical aspects of what a Johnson presidency would mean.
His latest ad, released today, explores the possibility that most Americans are in fact, Libertarian without even knowing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvRfGrexFfA
“If you’d rather rebuild roads, schools, bridges and hospitals here at home instead of building them for others halfway around the world, you’re a Libertarian,” a narrator says as a sweaty, anxious and uncomfortable voter writhes on screen. “If you’re the kind of person that talks about ending warfare and welfare in the same sentence, you’re a Libertarian. If you think that your body, your love life and your private business are no business of the Federal government, you’re Libertarian. If you’d rather die than give another vote to the bloated, Constitution-trampling, over-taxing and over-spending members of both failed political parties, hate to break it to you, you’re not Democrat or Republican, you are Libertarian.”
The narrator concludes, “This year you don’t have to be a Libertarian to vote Libertarian. We’re not a party, we’re the people.”
Johnson’s ongoing ad campaign underlines the fact that a growing number of voters are increasingly identifying themselves as independents and, while their ideal policy points may not necessarily be textbook Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises or Hans-Hermann Hoppe, America’s non-partisan masses are essentially looking for a form of practical, leave-me-alone, keep it-simple-stupid libertarianism.