let's bring in the us the libertarian party's arvin vote. he's a former vice chair of the libertarian national committee. thank you very much for being with us here in our 2 international as always. so, joe biden, he's chosen an all female senior communications team. again, lots of familiar faces. we were, we've known them here on our team for quite some time. now, these are all from the obama era. why is biden going in this direction? i mean, this is an obvious distraction tactic. the idea i assume is to create such a highly noticeable identity shift that the content of the message is different. so the idea is that if you have an all female communications team saying yes, the united states is continuing perpetual war. yes, we're going to keep our keep the drug war going. yes, we're going to keep our failed welfare policies ranging from food stamps, a government schools that have kept the american people in a state of dependency. yes, we're going to keep doing that that somehow. the fact that the messages are all female will distract the ame

does play a significant role i don't know if libertarians or other 3rd parties or over will ever consistently get a high in a vote to win a national election but here's how libertarians and greens and others do affect the outcome. there are over a 1000000 people a 1000000 libertarians that voted for the libertarian candidate and during the selection process republicans and democrats were always both contacting us saying why are you going to vote libertarian instead of republican or democrat and that gives us the opportunity to point out how we're not voting republican because you guys say you're for smaller government but you increase spending you in keep creased taxes you increase the debt and we tell democrats you say you are for protecting civil liberties and for ending the wars but when your guys are in charge you keep those wars in the middle east going and you keep the patriot act spying on americans so maybe not when elections but impacting policy debates and reaching out to voters is what we do how it's want to pick up on something that was to sadly he said you know we're talking abou

host: what brought you to the libertarian party in the first place? of the twom tired party system. i do not think it has worked out. i think we need a change and i think the libertarian party should bring that change. host: how so? there are things like the whole decriminalizing drugs. in oregon they have decriminalized magic mushrooms, left, but alsohe stuff like your second moment rights. that is right. it is right in the middle. host: janine in maryland, a supporter of joe biden. hello. caller: i have two points. my first point for people complaining the democratic party is cheating, it is simply not true. what we have watched over the course of a couple of months is fake ballot boxes by republicans being put in place in different states like california. dejoy taking out sorting machines that make it easier to process ballots, process the mail. militia groups intimidating voters at the polls. that is cheating by the republicans. my second point is what we are witnessing is the democratic party has a diverse party. supportd brown people democrats overwhelmingly. it looks like the

over one percent of the vote so far with 98 percent of the ballots counted showing that the libertarian party in the libertarian vote was somewhat decisive in wisconsin but we're waiting for official results from wisconsin and from michigan now another state that is contested is pennsylvania and it's contested and many of the ballots in pennsylvania have not been counted results in pennsylvania are expected to be delayed due to the fact that the postal facility and a number of postal facilities are being inspected on orders of the us federal court so the results in pennsylvania and. the determination of who receives their 20 electoral votes will remain remain unknown for quite some time as postal facilities are being inspected so at the moment things are looking good for biden but at this point it is still you know too soon to call it right there are a number of electoral votes that are still up for grabs both candidates have a clear path to victory so at this point you really can't say many people predicted that the morning following the election in the united states it would not be clear wh

he is a former libertarian party presidential candidate, as well as author of the book, pull out men modern life and mutiny. and in montreal, we have lauren chen. she is a you tuber and host of pseudo intellectual or across up rules. and in fact, that means you can jump in anytime you want and i'll.

benedict is a former executive director of the libertarian party, originally, rules in effect, that means you can jump in anytime you want, and i was appreciate it. he was going to kevin kevin, in light of the election results, which you say that the, the, me, the postulate politics is, destiny is in the dustbin of history. go ahead. we'll see what happens over. so i don't have an official where of course i am a leader to the president and i don't like to remind us even though we know who are rude, i think we have a lot of work to do honestly in america to get past this huge divide i think elections showed us how divided really are, were present shop reform, got the folks out. but unfortunately for him and his supporters, he created almost a stronger movement of people who strongly hate, you know, the resistance, so to speak. and they came out. there's probably a lot of work to do, so make sure you put it for free, but we're not there yet. and ton, i think that it would be very welcomed by tens of millions of people if the political left and particularly the democratic party can stop vote

because that's an issue that both parties and the libertarian party probably thinks about. go ahead. evan. absolutely, and ross are on it were maybe years rates over 100000000, you know, it pretty handily. and you know, either early to consultants, one consultants, consultants going to be millionaires were minted in that region. oh yeah, exactly. you know, you know, the c.e.o. where somebody trying to restart their mind can try to raise a lot of money to mainly from outsiders and not get close to me. which folks oversee it in a lot of states. mentioned order a couple times. it's only going to get worse, you know, next couple months. sure. sure. outsiders coming in, but i think the takeaway is that it doesn't tell me now from lindsey graham. i want a certain kind of, they know their states better than these outsiders or even money is i think it turns off you know, what you're referring to, were you know, the sarge talking about. they know it was better to find some who were and you just can't buy these races. we learn from that, you know, it's all going to be here on the out

vice presidential candidate from the libertarian party spike cohen. thank you very much for joining us on the program. now joe biden says his new team is ready to lead the world and not retreat from it. is that the impression you get from his choice of candidates? well, i think if you like the continued expansion of u.s. imperialist foreign policy, then this is a dream team for us. donald. we got tony blinken, we got michelle flournoy, admiral haynes and others who served under the obama administration. and while they were there, they were the main cheerleaders for the expansion of the war in iraq. the involvement in expansion of the war in syria, the continuation of the u.s. sponsored genocide in yemen and the involvement and invasion of libya by the us military. in fact, michele flournoy actually criticized obama for not being enough of a war hawk in syria. so if that's what you want, if you want more dead u.s. troops and dead people overseas, if you want more trillions of dollars being run up in debt to continue this empire imperial system going, t

.,tates, michigan bidens marjorie victory -- margin of victory was largely determined by the libertarian party. , is my my question is assumption correct that this election in georgia will be swung by libertarians who either arede not to vote for unlikely to vote on the republican line? what givesepends kelly loeffler an upper hand. took away mostho of her votes was republican. his name is doug collins of georgia and he has dropped out now. he is a house member and had been a house member and ran against her and really wanted that c. he was defeated. he has gotten behind her and his votes will matter. i think it's an interesting point you make about the libertarian candidate. it depends on the state and the race. there can be a green party candidate who takes away votes from democrats. that certainly can be the case. in maine, for example, susan collins pulled out a win over sarah gideon who is a democrat but there were other ballot candidates who drew away from that and they were opposed to each other. they were not similar at all, they had a green party candidate and another libertarian cand

vote libertarian as i say your vote will have no impact on the outcome of the election we know republicans always win texas just like democrats always win california so go ahead and vote for a 3rd party like libertarians if you want. that example demonstrates how the electoral college does make a lot of voters preferences not very influential ok the electoral college it gives a voice to the voice lee does it not how this power to small states that generally see themselves as being ignored if it was just the popular vote no counted it would bother trying to win them over what they were why should the vastly populated coastal areas dominate the entire nation. well it's very simple you know you said it in your intro one person one vote it's pretty simplistic we have to remember that the look toward a college what they designed at the 12th amendment during a time when we did not have the technology that we have today the process of counting votes took much longer than it does today now we have the ability to have each presidential candidate be counted by their vote so the idea that the electorial college was made initially to make some type of fairness between the states make it proporti

does play a significant role i don't know if libertarians or other 3rd parties are or will ever consistently get high enough to win a national election but he may be now when in elections but impacting policy debates and reaching out to voters is what we do how it's want to pick up on something that was just said to he said you know we're talking about a single percent support for thought parts of town today that's right it's kind of spread quite even 4849 for the republicans and democrats so it's almost sad to say that the republicans or democrats at this point represent the will of the majority of americans do you think about as you know you disagree with that absolutely i mean look at public opinion polls majority of americans want a green new deal which is what the green party for to do with the climate crisis to get the economy going again majority of americans want medicare for all and both democrats and republicans oppose those policies the problem is that our electoral system. we have a plurality winner single member districts when you take all system. which encourages people to vote

he is a former libertarian. party presidential candidate as well as author of the book, pull out men modern life, mutiny. and in montreal we have lauren chen. she is a you tuber and host of pseudo intellectual or across up rules in effect, that means you can jump in anytime you want. and i was appreciated always going to lauren 1st here, just very broadly speaking, how has this election changed the political environment? because there's so much focus on trump, all of the time. that is kind of crowded out, some of the interesting results of this election here. the g.o.p. did it remarkably well, considering all of the predictions of doom and gloom. and then we see that the, the coalition that was behind joe biden, it's quite fragile right now. and if you look at the demographic vote voting demographics, a lot of surprises there too. going to the g.o.p. . so what are your major takeaways in this post-mortem of this election? well, i think the 1st thing to note is that, you know, of course the election has not officially

i mean, also, if it really, i think its stake in the republican party is the outsized influence of libertarians because we, the republican party remarkably is turning into what pay and work and ethnic working class party, which i never would have thought. go ahead, nick. that is remarkable and it is the fact that including himself is in every way, shape and form creation. the democratic party is this kind of more neo fascist type figure as dr. cornel west describes and but he was propped up by the democratic party as that hyper candidate by the d.n.c. in that fashion. and so to run as a candidate would be so offensive that it would of course, for help. hillary clinton's a victory. he was also, of course, only capable of winning because barack obama ran on progressive promises such as getting money out of politics, a single payer health care system, expanding labor rights, tackling the climate crisis, abandoned. all it's, those misses the moment that he was elected and they were serving wall street and not really coming out to the banks after the 2008 great recession. and so it was because of th

early on my colleagues on tele spoke with representatives from america's 3rd parties the libertarians on the greens and whether the current 2 party domination gives americans any real alternatives. the one percent that libertarians get. does play a significant role i don't know if libertarians or other 3rd parties are or will ever consistently get high enough to win a national election maybe not win in elections but impacting policy debates and reaching out to voters is what we do how it's want to pick up on something that was just said we he said you know we're talking about a single percent support for thought party town today that's right it's kind of spread quite even 4849 for the republicans and democrats so it's almost sad to say that the republicans or democrats at this point represent the will of the majority of americans do you think that as you know you disagree with that absolutely when you look at public opinion polls majority of americans want a green new deal which is what the green party for to do with the climate crisis get the economy going again majority of americans

or libertarian parties, 2025 presidential candidates by cohen does believe that the new biden administration will be more aggressive in its foreign policy, but not to the benefit of ordinary americans. i think if you like the continued expansion of u.s. imperialist foreign policy, then this is a dream team for us. we got tony blinken, we got michelle flournoy, avril haynes and others who served under the obama administration. and while they were there, they were the main cheerleaders for the expansion of the war in iraq, the involvement and expansion of the war in syria. the continuation of the u.s. sponsored genocide in yemen and the involvement and invasion of libya by the us military. if you want more dead u.s. troops and dead people overseas, if you want more trillions of dollars being run up in debt to continue this empire imperial system going, then this would be they ideal pick for you in general. if you just talk about the subject of us foreign policy, the average american wants the wars to end, the average american wants the troops to come home. the average american doesn't think th

we have our vin well raw, he is a former libertarian party presidential candidate, as well as author of the book, all out men, modern life, mutiny. and in montreal we have lauren chan. she is a you tuber and host of pseudo intellectual. all right, cross up rules in effect, that means you can jump any time you want and i was appreciate it. ok, it's going to lauren 1st here. i just very broadly speaking, how has this election changed the political environment? because there's so much focus on trump all of the time that is kind of crowded out . some of the interesting.

and in austin, we crossed us benedict is a former executive director of the libertarian party. originally, rules in effect, that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated. he was good and kevin, kevin.

benedict is a former executive director of the libertarian party, originally, rules in effect, that means you can jump in anytime you want, and i was appreciate it. he was going to kevin kevin, in light of the election results, which you say that the, the, me, the postulate politics is, destiny is in the dustbin of history. go ahead. we'll see what happens over. so i don't have an official weather. of course, if you can't believe the president, i don't like to remind us, even though we know who you are, where we are. a lot of work to do out of this use of our elections service is out of 5 really are were present. shoppers votes out but almost a stronger movement of strongly.

and we discuss with america's minor parties the libertarians and the greens on how people like you for no real choice from the republicans and democrats. i don't know if libertarians or other 3rd parties are or will ever consistently get high enough to win a national election we have here all the winner's single member district when it's a.