Which Presidential Candidate Do Democrats Most Agree With On the Issues?

Hint: It's not the top of their ticket.

Nick Gillespie | 7.31.2016 5:30 PM

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Which Presidential Candidate Do Democrats Most Agree With On the Issues?

Reason's Nick Gillespie took to the halls of the Wells Fargo Center at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, PA to quiz delegates on the policy statements of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Gary Johnson. Watch to see which positions Democratic partisans most align with on the issues.

Approximately 4:30 minutes.

Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Camera by Weissmueller and Joshua Swain. Edited by Alexis Garcia and Swain.

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Hamster of Doom 9 years ago

Hey, there's a Libertarian in this race? Y'all must be stoked, being writers at a libertarian webzine, totes congrats. I expect we'll be hearing about him a lot, now that there's a Libertarian in the race. Ha! I expect we'll be hearing so much about this Libertarian candidate's policies and attitudes on the serious issues which Americans need to face toot-sweet that we'll just get SICK of it.

Good news. My day just got so much better.
Knarf the Yenrab 9 years ago

I'm not going to watch the video, but I bet they support the guy who smokes pot and wants to force Jews to bake Nazi cakes.
1. Chipper Morning Wood 9 years ago
  
  It's kind of entertaining how the yokels have latched onto this issue. It's not even correctly stated. It's not a Nazi cake, it's a cake for Nazis. A baker can refuse to make a cake with a Nazi message. But he can't refuse to serve a customer because the customer is a Nazi. Can you at least grasp the difference?
  1. Dennis, Constitutional Peasant 9 years ago
    
    It's not a Nazi cake, it's a cake for Nazis. A baker can refuse to make a cake with a Nazi message. But he can't refuse to serve a customer because the customer is a Nazi. Can you at least grasp the difference?
    
    That's wrong - the entire basis of the issue is around 'compelled speech'. if the product/service itself were 100% neutral to the actual demands of the customer, none of these problems re: gay-marriage would have emerged in the first place. No one refuses to serve 'gay customers' - they've refused to make their products conform to gay-marriage purposes.
    
    The actual way Gary was asked the question was actually worded *both* ways (in more than one context), and he was affirmative in both cases that the govt has an interest in compelling speech - either in whom they serve, or what they are required to serve.
    
    And fuck you for being mendacious about it and pretending this is some Yokel/cosmo divide issue. its not. Its a freedom of association question and if you think - like johnson - that the govt has an interest in forcing associations and compelling speech? You're not a fucking libertarian.
    1. Chipper Morning Wood 9 years ago
      
      Uh huh:
      http://www.nyulawreview.org/si.....enblum.pdf
      
      There is a U.S. legal analysis and then there is a libertarian principles analysis. I was making the former, as that is what Gary used as a basis for his response. Whatever the fuck gave you the idea that I am opposed to the freedom of association? I was merely pointing out the lack of depth in the yokel objections to Gary's answer, as they don't even understand it. A point you have just proved.
      1. Lord at War 9 years ago
        
        There is a U.S. legal analysis and then there is a libertarian principles analysis. I was making the former, as that is what Gary used as a basis for his response.
        
        "U.S. 'legal analysis' has given us "Dred Scott", "Plessy", "Lochner", "Korematsu", and "Kelo".
        
        Some of us want better. And if he won't argue for it, he ain't better...
        
        But I guess a "cosmo" like you just wants it up the ass...
      2. Dennis, Constitutional Peasant 9 years ago
        
        You think an essay in NYU law review is supposed to handwave away any questions about compelled speech?
        
        Fuck off, that's just naked appeal to authority - and not even particularly strong one. That's just one man's opinion - not some consensus of constitutional precedent.
Deven 9 years ago

Paraphrasing, but when asked if she would rethink her allegiances being that she agreed with Gary Johnson on most issues, the asian lady said "I'll have to see what my leaders think, then conform to that."

Seriously.

What. In. The. Fuck.

Fuck democracy. Retards are running the country.
1. 0x90 9 years ago
  
  The last guy's response was the best:
  
  I think you better go talk to Gary Johnson, he might be with the wrong party, yah?
  1. End Child Unemployment 9 years ago
    
    I lol'd at that as well
2. Vampire 9 years ago
  
  Voting leads to slavery. Once enough ppl feel they can rob from others instead of working and competing witgout facing consequenses, they will vote for the person that will take everyone's shit than theirs.
Dennis, Constitutional Peasant 9 years ago

If the answer isn't "Hitler", then i think Nick needs to have the rules of the game explained to him again.
SadlyShakingHead 9 years ago

Since when did issues matter? Politics is tribal. Go team!
1. Chipper Morning Wood 9 years ago
  
  Exactly. Most people don't vote on issues. Issues are irrelevant. It's all about hating the other tribe.
SIV 9 years ago

Is Charles Koch going to support Hillary Clinton?

"That is a blood libel,"

He's gonna catch hell from the Jews
1. Knarf the Yenrab 9 years ago
  
  That's why they call it fuck-you money.
2. Warty 9 years ago
  
  Charles Koch calls criticism of his indifference to the fight between nationalism and globalism a "blood libel."
  
  I mean...I know that Breitbart is staffed by brain-injured children, but that sentence is amazing.
Glide 9 years ago

Obviously those quotes were somewhat cherry-picked to highlight Clinton's specific deviations from far-left thought, when in a general sense she really isn't far from "generic left-wing focus group made flesh" on anything except war.

So I don't put much stock in their anonymously taste-testing Johnson as a good candidate, but I did enjoy the flailing rationalizations at the end when it was revealed to them.
Hyperion 9 years ago

Morz Trump, Morz Hillary, Morz beer, Morz Beck!

New pollution

Oh, and obligatory, all the mammals in the front row, wood... I mean would...
1. Hyperion 9 years ago
  
  And at 2:15, definitely wood... err, I mean would, ALL.
Amigo 9 years ago

"I don't fucking have a clue what any of this means, I'm on Hillary Clinton's team, and I'm voting for Hillary Clinton."
Vampire 9 years ago

The guy with the Hillary hat reminds me of those Ford Vs Chevy folks. Even though a better performing, stronger and more efficient truck comes along, they don't give a shit because they always drove a ford, and so did their daddy's daddy, and his daddy too.

So I'm guessing Hillary hat dude always has and will vote democrat, cause it's a democrat, and who gives a shit how they perform, cause democrat.

And peace sign person agreed with everything Johnson preety much said, then went on to say they don't go off of sound bites....... These were actual policy positions. It's really effing simple. Would you? Yes, the reason being---.....people are so effed up.
1. AblueSilkworm 9 years ago
  
  So, you are saying that you would...?
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