Debates

Christian Britschgi | 10.24.2024 1:15 PM

Last night, three people who know they're not going to be president but are running for the office anyway took the stage in Los Angeles for a spirited third-party debate.

At the debate hosted by Free and Equal, Libertarian Party nominee Chase Oliver, Green Party candidate Jill Stein, and Randal Terry of the Constitution Party argued about whether the government should get much smaller, much larger, or be totally reoriented toward Judeo-Christian values.

Being the ideological gadflies that they are, the third-party candidates all made refreshingly undistilled cases for their contrasting visions of government.

Oliver did an admirable job laying out the basics of libertarianism and then applying them to individual cases.

"If you're not harming other people with your behavior, your behavior is perfectly acceptable and should not be regulated by the government or any other entity," he said last night, arguing that we should eliminate zoning laws to make housing affordable, cut spending, sell........

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