From abolishing most government in favor of free markets and personal responsibility to ending foreign wars and pardoning whistleblowers, three Libertarian Party presidential candidates presented their vision for the US in a debate hosted by RT America.
Marc Feldman, Kevin McCormick, and Darryl Perry faced each other before RT America’s 360-degree camera, in a debate moderated by Watching The Hawks co-hosts Tyrel Ventura and Tabetha Wallace.
A good summary and videos of the debate can be found at the RT site here.
Note: Gary Johnson, Austin Petersen, and John McAfee declined to participate in this debate.
On August 30, 2015 at the MTV Video Music Awards:
” while ’Ye’s videos were the focus, after an introduction from Taylor Swift, what the audience got was a mind-blowing, face-melting 11-minute sermon about creativity, truth, power and, wait, what? A possible presidential run in 2020?”
For those who do not see libertarian themes in Kanye’s work, I recommend checking out the lyrics to “New Slaves.” While other Libertarians reached out to Jesse Ventura and John McAfee to run for President, I reached out to Kanye West to run for Vice President.
Many Libertarians do not see the struggle of blacks for dignity and self-reliance, the struggle of Hispanics for quality education, and the struggle of women for fair treatment in the workplace as part of the larger Libertarian struggle for empowerment of the individual to live in liberty. I do.
As I wrote: “This will not be easy for us. Many in my Libertarian Party won’t like it. Many in the Democratic and Republican parties won’t like it either. Nike won’t like it. I don’t know what they will try to do to us, but that doesn’t matter. It is not about us. It is about ideas. It is about believing in the truth.” This was no publicity stunt.
I am an unconventional candidate for president, to say the least. But if you look closely – much of what I do and say makes sense. I have never received any response from Kanye West, his agents, or anyone on his team. Nor was my reaching out publicized in the mainstream media – at all. That in itself is interesting and important information.
Perry and Feldman both did very well. McCormick spoke well, but was not consistently libertarian.
Feldman had some good laugh lines. Perry has been the most consistent libertarian throughout the campaign, as he was in this debate.
I thought the debate was great.
Maybe I read some disinformation…did he say he wants Kanye West for VP?
I give Feldman credit for improving over the course of the campaign.
Marc Feldman is sounding better and better as the choice for our nomination. Every time I see and hear him debating his opponents I am convinced he will make a strong candidate.
Jose C
Oh, that was OK. My story was abridged, anyway; people get to read more using this link.
I wish I had none about your piece George, I would have posted that. You have to shamelessly promote yourself to me!
Thanks to one media outlet for letting Libertarians know about their other choices. I had this story excerpted and the full video on my blog, today, with the headline, “Libertarian undercard debate televised” and the teaser:
“Hey, Libertarians: Don’t have a presidential candidate yet? Think Johnson’s too liberal, McAfee’s too weird, Petersen’s too arrogant? Well, there’s more choices on the ballot; and thanks to RT America, you have a chance to learn about these three: http://gdspoliticalanimal.blogspot.ca/2016/05/libertarian-undercard-debate-televised.html ”
Any idea what happened to Petersen? He agreed to do the show, a week ago https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2016/05/libertarian-party-presidential-candidate-darryl-w-perry-to-participate-in-televised-debate/
and as late as 5pm of last night RT America was still announcing him as a debater https://www.facebook.com/RTAmerica/posts/10153499622211366
Suddenly, less than an hour later, he’s off the program with no explanation https://www.rt.com/usa/342693-libertarian-party-presidential-debate/