{"id":2934,"date":"2020-06-16T13:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2020-06-16T13:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:57:48","slug":"meet-the-romney-gary-johnson-bloomberg-voter-whos-embracing-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2934","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Romney-Gary Johnson-Bloomberg voter who\u2019s embracing Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;But here I am now, [and] it\u2019s odd. I mean, I\u2019m still, I can vote for centrist Democrats, but I\u2019m too right of center. I\u2019m definitely not progressive, but, I mean, there\u2019s always overlap. I\u2019ve always thought that the militarization of police has been a bad idea. The drug war has been catastrophic, as far as I can see. I think if states want to legalize [drugs], that\u2019s up to them. I wouldn\u2019t do it, but I\u2019d even say psychedelics should be legal now. But it was weird because when I was at VMI, to [Republicans], I was a libertarian and then I worked with libertarians, and to them I was a statist cuck. You probably get this if you\u2019ve been paying attention to right-wing stuff, but every libertarian agrees on two things: that there\u2019s only one libertarian and it\u2019s them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/6\/11\/21283836\/protests-libertarian-dc-interview-truck\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/6\/11\/21283836\/protests-libertarian-dc-interview-truck<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But here I am now, [and] it\u2019s odd. I mean, I\u2019m still, I can vote for centrist Democrats, but I\u2019m too right of center. I\u2019m definitely not progressive, but, I mean, there\u2019s always overlap. I\u2019ve always thought that the militarization of police has been a bad idea. The drug war has been catastrophic, as far as I can see. I think if states want to legalize [drugs], that\u2019s up to them. I wouldn\u2019t do it, but I\u2019d even say psychedelics should be legal now. But it was weird because when I was at VMI, to [Republicans], I was a libertarian and then I worked with libertarians, and to them I was a statist cuck. You probably get this if you\u2019ve been paying attention to right-wing stuff, but every libertarian agrees on two things: that there\u2019s only one libertarian and it\u2019s them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[869,772,646,386],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-ideology","tag-libertarian","tag-voters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}