00:00:00.000Welcome to the Nicholas J. Fuentes Show.
00:00:02.000My name, of course, is Nicholas J. Fuentes.
00:00:05.000We have a very special guest joining us today, a libertarian presidential candidate and founder of the Libertarian Republic, Austin Peterson.
00:00:13.000He will be stopping by to share his thoughts on how to actually make America great again.
00:00:18.000But first, today's topic liberty itself.
00:00:22.000Is there any hope for a liberty renaissance in America today?
00:00:25.000Do Americans even want liberty anymore?
00:00:28.000Is the GOP still the party of Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater?
00:00:31.000And does the advent of Donald Trump spell the death of grassroots conservatism?
00:00:36.000All these questions and more coming up.
00:00:46.000Now, before we get into the meat and potatoes of the state of liberty in this country, let's look at what this presidential election tells us about the prospects for a free society once again in America.
00:00:59.000No, it's not Doc from Back to the Future.
00:01:02.000Younger people and rich white New England liberals will recognize this zany character anywhere.
00:01:07.000Of course, he's the incomparable Bernie Sanders.
00:01:10.000He is a self proclaimed democratic socialist.
00:01:13.000He has called for free education, free health care, and raising the minimum wage.
00:01:18.000That's as far as most people know his platform is.
00:01:21.000But did you know that your free Bernie education will cost you more than $18 trillion?
00:01:27.000Did you know that your free Bernie healthcare will cost anywhere between $13.1 and $28 trillion over the next decade?
00:01:34.000Add these together for a grand total of $46 trillion just on education and healthcare alone.
00:01:41.000I'm sorry, I mean free education and healthcare.
00:01:44.000$46 trillion, to give you an idea, is more than the combined gross domestic product.
00:01:49.000Of China, the European Union, and the United States combined.
00:01:53.000Meaning that if you took every single thing produced in the entire continent of Europe, in China, and the United States of America over the course of a whole year, and you sold all of it, this would not cover the cost of free education and health care.
00:02:14.000Then, of course, there is Hillary Clinton.
00:02:15.000Now, we'll skip over Benghazi because conservatives already know and liberals don't want to know.
00:02:21.000As Secretary of State, her most noteworthy contributions included the Russian reset, the deposition of Muammar Gaddafi, and the pivot to Asia.
00:02:29.000Since 2008, Russia has annexed Crimea in blatant violation of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, illegally fomented civil war in eastern Ukraine, illegally sold missiles to Iran, propped up the genocidal Assad regime in Syria, and is speculated to have shot down two civilian airliners, one of which had the entire Polish government on board.
00:02:52.000Gaddafi's Libya has become a hotbed for terrorism, flirting with failed state status as the country has devolved into anarchy with several different gangs of radical Islamists, including ISIS, vying for control of the country.
00:03:06.000And of course, China is now landing planes on their military bases built illegally on top of artificial islands constructed in the South China Sea in blatant violation of international law.
00:03:18.000Now, on top of all that, on top of her amazing, stellar track record as Secretary of State, it was revealed this week that Clinton had sent SAP.
00:03:27.000That is special access program intelligence from our unsecured home email server.
00:03:31.000Now, for those of you that don't know, SAP intelligence is highly classified because if compromised, according to Charles Krauthammer, American operatives serving in the field die.
00:03:43.000Now, if you didn't hear about the SAPs, it's probably because this revelation may have been overshadowed by the latest bit of political theater Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump.
00:03:53.000Now, for all the absurdity that is Bernie Sanders and all the corruption that is Hillary Clinton, the Donald trumps them both.
00:04:00.000He tells us he's going to make America great again.
00:04:02.000He tells us he's going to straighten out all the Washington politicians and kill ISIS and kick out the Muslims and build the wall and beat China and talk to Putin.
00:04:11.000Listen, conservatives, I'm mad as hell too.
00:04:17.000I'm not going to bash Trump for how far fetched and ridiculous most of the things he says are, because you can get that on TV or radio or from anyone you know any time of the day.
00:04:27.000What you may not know is that Donald Trump is not a conservative.
00:05:12.000America became the greatest country in the history of the world because we didn't look to a messianic presidential candidate to deliver change or to restore past glory.
00:05:22.000Americans found the greatness of their country from within.
00:05:26.000There was a sense of duty, a sense of personal and moral responsibility to take account for our nation and its governance.
00:05:33.000Charity was not a tortured Facebook post or a vote to a socialist.
00:05:38.000Defending America was not a drama to be seen on TV.
00:05:45.000If we wanted to feed the poor, it was on our own time and at our own expense.
00:05:50.000If we wanted to go save the Middle East, it was our sons that sacrificed themselves for theirs.
00:05:55.000And if we wanted to make America great again, we didn't look to a loudmouthed demagogue to do it for us.
00:06:01.000The idea that we, the people, must take an active role in preserving liberty in the Constitution has become a laughable anachronism of talk radio hosts and old racists.
00:06:13.000For the first 200 years of this country, the central debate of our political discourse was regarding the role of government in a free society.
00:06:21.000Somewhere we got lost in hope and change and make America great, and we are the 99%, and now here we sit, 240 years later, with an income tax, a federal reserve, a national health care system, a social insurance program, and an army of bureaucrats.
00:06:39.0002016 was supposed to be the libertarian moment.
00:06:43.000After years of statism from both the left and the right, The grassroots were supposed to rise up and restore conservative principle, bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness.
00:07:04.000There is an ongoing struggle for the soul of the conservative movement.
00:07:07.000Currently, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are the favorites for the Republican nomination.
00:07:11.000Trump, the moderate, and Cruz, the conservative.
00:07:14.000The outcome of this contest will determine the future of this country.
00:07:18.000Whether we revert to politics as usual, choosing between statist Trump and statist Hillary Clinton, or if Ted Cruz becomes the first conservative to run for president since Ronald Reagan and is able to finally resist the tide of government expansion.
00:07:33.000Ultimately, however, as always, it will be up to we the people to restore the liberties of our republic.
00:08:22.000Absolutely, I consider myself a minarchist, very much in the style of a gentleman who wrote a book called Anarchy, State, and Utopia in the 1970s, a man by the name of Robert Nozick, who justified what he called a night watchman state.
00:08:36.000Basically, it's sort of like the Watchers on the Wall.
00:08:40.000If your watchers of this show are interested in Game of Thrones, then they might know a little bit about the men of the Night's Watch, whose job is merely to protect the citizens of the Seven Kingdoms from the terrors that lurk beyond the wall, but whose job is not to interfere in the affairs of men.
00:08:57.000Perhaps we might do better off if we had a government that was relegated to the role of a Night Watchman state.
00:09:11.000And having said that, in terms of libertarianism, because they tend to be a little bit more leftist when it comes to foreign policy, what is Austin Peterson's foreign policy when he's president?
00:09:23.000Well, philosophically, by ideology, I'm a non interventionist.
00:09:27.000I don't like seeing the government intervene in foreign affairs any more than I like seeing them interfere in domestic affairs.
00:09:33.000That being said, governments around the world tend to not be non interventionists themselves.
00:09:38.000So we do need some sort of a form of defense against these hostile interventionist.
00:09:43.000So, what that form of defense is really comes down to what I think you're going to have to look at on a specific case by case scenario.
00:09:50.000You simply cannot take a philosophy and apply it to every single situation that has ever existed and expect that you're going to get the same results every time.
00:11:18.000It's sticks and carrots, as they like to call it.
00:11:21.000And of course, Iran does pose an actual threat to the United States in terms of the cyber warfare capabilities which they can deploy.
00:11:28.000So, we do need offensive cyber warfare capabilities for us to defend ourselves against those who would use offensive cyber capabilities against us.
00:11:35.000There's no defensive strategy in something like that.
00:11:37.000If someone is using a hacker to attack United States infrastructure, you need to have an offensive computer that can go in and destroy whatever computer is using that against you.
00:11:46.000I mean, that's perfectly in line with the non aggression principle.
00:11:52.000In terms of culture, we need to have a cultural revolution.
00:11:55.000And the only way that that's going to happen in Iran is not through force of arms, I don't believe.
00:11:59.000Because if you go in and you just overthrow the Ayatollahs right now, then you're only going to harden the hearts of the people against you because they're going to see you as invaders.
00:12:09.000The only way that you can invade another culture is with your own superior culture.
00:12:31.000Then the Iranian deal that's gone on, that was passed through executive decree, unfortunately, instead of through constitutional processes, has opened up more avenues of trade to Iran.
00:12:44.000And that's actually one of the reasons why we're currently experiencing a crisis in the oil markets, is because of the glut that has been produced by the boom of domestic American manufacturing, but also because of the addition of Iranian crude into the marketplace.
00:13:03.000That mixed with The low growth in countries such as China and the impact it's had on Russia and their ruble, which has caused them to inflate their currency, is really what's the cause of the current financial crisis that we find ourselves embroiled in.
00:13:20.000So there are sometimes problems when you do have an overabundance of supply, but I think the markets will clear and we'll start to see stabilization and better relations with Iran as a result.
00:13:31.000And I think that's a very smart and comprehensive answer.
00:13:34.000It's refreshing to hear something that addresses all facets of the issue rather than just the Populist nationalist element or the full engagement, we are the world, hold hands, sing kumbaya approach.
00:13:45.000It is refreshing to hear something that is intelligent from all sides of the spectrum, economic as well as political.
00:13:53.000In regards to economics, I think this is one of the most fascinating elements of this race that you see tax plans and economic policies ranging from as liberal as Rand Paul's 14.5% flat tax rate to something as absurdly statist and progressive tax rate like Marco Rubio's.
00:14:11.000Now, as a libertarian, what would Austin Peterson do about the economy?
00:14:15.000Well, I would leave it alone, to be honest.
00:14:24.000And I like that you use the word liberal to describe Rand Paul's tax policies, because I absolutely hate the fact that the liberals have taken away the word liberal from us, because I like to consider myself a classical liberal.
00:14:37.000But classical liberals are even a little bit more statist than minarchists, perhaps.
00:14:43.000But no, the tax policies that I would enact, I would like to see us eliminate the payroll tax so that we can incentivize employers to hire more.
00:14:52.000I'd like to cut the corporate income tax rate in half.
00:14:58.000And I would also like to cut our personal income taxes into, well, basically, I would like to flatten them out.
00:15:04.000Move us towards a flat tax with a goal towards elimination of all taxes, towards a voluntary style of taxation, which everybody freaks out about as if there was no way to collect taxes other than to hit people over the head every year.
00:15:17.000And forced to demand that they be thrown into a cage if they don't pay their progressive income taxes.
00:15:21.000There are voluntary ways to fund public services.
00:15:24.000People say, well, how are we going to fund all these government programs?
00:15:27.000I'm like, well, government will be smaller, so we won't need as much tax money to fund the programs that we need.
00:15:33.000Right, and that's the best answer because I think in any discussion about tax policy or fiscal policy in general, what's often left out is the size of government.
00:17:16.000No, and I think that's a great way to reduce spending.
00:17:17.000I'm so tired of the Republicans in name only talking about cutting growth in spending rather than cutting the actual spending.
00:17:25.000Now, in regards to spending, one of the biggest problems with it is entitlements.
00:17:29.000You know, while many discretionary items can be spent without much backlash, Politically or economically, entitlements are kind of the third rail of politics.
00:17:37.000How would Austin Peterson go about addressing entitlement reform in America?
00:17:41.000Well, you know, we've got all sorts of different entitlements.
00:17:44.000And all the time we look at things like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and we say, oh, well, the federal government, some people will say, well, why don't we consider raising the retirement age for Social Security?
00:17:57.000Well, how about we raise the retirement age for federal pensions?
00:18:01.000Why don't we force the government to take the haircut and make them foot the Bill for all of this.
00:18:06.000But no, no, no, the public servants have to get their pensions, their lucrative public pensions.
00:18:11.000You know, I don't like the idea that we have things like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.
00:18:15.000And I think that what we need to do is find a way to put a moratorium onto these programs, basically.
00:18:20.000We should allow young people to opt out of Social Security so that they can buy into the private market.
00:18:26.000You know, if they had invested in the Dow Jones Industrial Average versus Social Security, you would have seen much greater returns.
00:18:32.000But of course, people don't like that because they see it as more volatile.
00:18:36.000But, you know, the government is volatile too.
00:18:57.000Yes, I said cuts to these programs because I'm sorry, you know, grandma and grandpa, but I never agreed to finance your health care and your retirement.
00:19:33.000So often you hear about the uncaring Republicans that don't want to fit the bill for all these liberal spending projects.
00:19:39.000It was Madison who said charity would be no part of the legislative duty of this government.
00:19:44.000So I think that that is a fine attitude.
00:19:45.000To take when it comes to entitlements.
00:19:47.000Now, we've talked a lot about fiscal policy, and I very much appreciate your voluntary taxation scheme and moving us towards a sustainable government spending project.
00:19:58.000What do you think in terms of monetary policy?
00:20:01.000What would you do with the Federal Reserve?
00:20:03.000Oh boy, what wouldn't I do to the Federal Reserve?
00:20:05.000Like, so salt, burn it to the ground, and then so salt into the ground.
00:20:11.000You know, the Federal Reserve is the antithesis of the free market.
00:20:17.000Because what it does is it's a government granted monopoly to one single corporation, private corporation, to create the nation's monetary supply and it bans all forms of competition.
00:20:35.000And when I try and talk to people about what kind of a monetary policy I'd like to see, I like to talk to them about this experiment that we've had in the United States for a short time in free banking.
00:20:46.000It was also an experiment in Scotland.
00:20:48.000They had a very stable monetary system under a Free banking policy for a time.
00:20:52.000And what this would do is, don't tell the big banks, but it would break up their big cartel in allowing private banks to compete against the Federal Reserve.
00:21:01.000Now, in the United States in the late 1700s, no, I believe it was the late 1800s, excuse me, right before the Civil War, we had a bit of a free banking era.
00:21:11.000And that free banking era was where states would issue the currency.
00:21:15.000And if there were any private banks, they had to be chartered by state banks.
00:21:20.000But that's because the state banks were the ones issuing the currency.
00:21:23.000And then the federal government said, well, let's just federalize it.
00:21:27.000And I think it's important for us to understand that a free market in a currency would be just as effective as a free market in bread, right?
00:21:35.000Why do we allow the government to fix the price or the exchange rate of money when we don't let them fix the price of bread or any other commodity?
00:21:44.000We have this explosion of cryptocurrencies that are emerging.
00:21:55.000So, why not allow digital currencies to potentially compete against the Federal Reserve notes?
00:22:02.000You know why they don't want us to do that, is because they don't want anybody kicking down the door of their monopoly there.
00:22:08.000But if President of the United States, I would demand that the Federal Reserve, because I couldn't abolish it by myself, the President's not a dictator, but I would request that Congress send me legislation giving me the authority to allow free markets in currency.
00:22:42.000Because if you go down the street and you buy gold, you buy gold plus tax.
00:22:46.000But how about you go to the bank, you buy gold, and you get it for an even exchange rate?
00:22:53.000They don't like what they can't control.
00:22:55.000And that's really what it is the federal government wants to be able to track every single Transaction that goes in and out of this marketplace.
00:23:04.000And that's where all the fun goes on because, let me tell you, within the black market is where innovation really occurs nowadays.
00:23:11.000It's a shame to say it, but it's true.
00:23:14.000Well, yeah, and that's one of the founding principles, I guess, is letting the black market choke the state.
00:23:19.000I think, once again, you're right on the money.
00:23:21.000And I think it's a shame that so few candidates, even the most conservative, will refuse to even address the idea of a Federal Reserve or a free banking system.
00:24:00.000As president, would you lead a cultural revolution for liberty, and what would that look like?
00:24:04.000Well, I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member.
00:24:09.000But, you know, I just, all I can do is hold the torch up above me of the best of my knowledge and understanding and hope that people will follow.
00:24:19.000You know, I've never been a fan of bashing people over the head to conform even to my belief systems.
00:24:24.000You know, there is a statement that someone said once, they were a little bit more of a statist.
00:24:29.000They said that, you know, if you want freedom, be prepared to force it on those who would deprive you of it.
00:24:36.000If you're a communist or a socialist and you're trying to force me to be a communist or a socialist, Then, yes, I'm going to have to fight back and force freedom on communists and socialists.
00:24:44.000But in a sense, it is the antithesis of libertarianism there because we don't want to be a neocon and intervene and force our idea of freedom everywhere around the world, even if we acknowledge that they are not free in Syria or Iran or any of these other countries, Iraq, for example, deposing Saddam.
00:25:02.000So, again, this is a philosophical question and there are problems with it.
00:25:06.000We want our logic to be as airtight as possible.
00:25:09.000Ayn Rand said that reason and logic never contradict.
00:25:27.000I ran for vice president when I was in high school and I lost.
00:25:31.000So I think I have some shortcomings, and perhaps those might become more apparent as I run for office.
00:25:38.000But even if that's so, if I can light a brush fire here or there and inspire people like you or other people.
00:25:45.000To talk about free banking, research more about these concepts that I am passionate about, then I will have considered myself a success.
00:25:52.000You know, I don't see myself as a leader of a movement because despite all of the claims of my enormous ego, I actually try and remain a little bit down to earth and grounded.
00:26:03.000So, but if I were elected president of the United States, that would mean that the United States was in the midst of a full blown revolution, no doubt.
00:26:10.000But, you know, if Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders are the candidates, you just might see it.
00:26:17.000It's refreshing to hear some humility from a politician for once, especially in this race, right?
00:26:22.000Now, on Donald Trump and on Bernie Sanders, we are sort of seeing a populist moment here in the West, even in Europe with Corbyn in Britain, even with Syriza in Greece.
00:26:33.000We are seeing more of a populist line, and unfortunately, it's decidedly statist.
00:26:39.000Whether it's on the conservative side or the liberal side, it's in a nationalist fervor.
00:26:44.000Do you think the libertarian moment is dead?
00:26:57.000We fed this baby because it started with the Tea Party movement back in 2010, and we made some strange bedfellows, some alliances with conservatives to get some of our representatives elected people like Justin Amash in Michigan, Thomas Massey in Kentucky, good representatives, as well as Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, most of the good guys, or at least the better guys.
00:27:22.000And so, what has happened is that as the Tea Party has begun to wither and die, the ugly, evil, gnarled roots of populism have shown through.
00:27:34.000As we've seen the xenophobia and the blatant racism that's come out of the Trump supporters, the idea that we're going to ban Muslims simply on account of their religion, which strikes at the heart of Americanism, not just libertarianism.
00:27:49.000This isn't me just defending my own narrow ideology here, but this is Americanism at its core.
00:27:55.000That's under attack by populists claiming to represent the American experiment, but they are only representing their own narrow, bigoted viewpoints that are collectivist.
00:28:06.000And think about that because when they're trying to defend their culture, they are collectivists by nature.
00:28:15.000Not individualists, but collectivists.
00:28:18.000And so it has become a dangerous moment for libertarians.
00:28:21.000You know, you've really hit at the heart of why I'm running, simply because I wish to be in this election, no matter what happens, the principled voice of individualism.
00:28:32.000And I want to stand up against the collectivism and the populism that we see.
00:28:38.000You know, you saw Sarah Palin endorsing Donald Trump.
00:28:41.000Because the populists, again, the collectivists, they tend to collect.
00:28:47.000The individualists are, we're like hardened cats.
00:28:49.000They're trying to get us to run together, to work together.
00:28:52.000I mean, most of the opposition to what I'm trying to do is not coming from statists, it's coming from libertarians.
00:28:58.000You know, like Taylor Swift said, people throw rocks at things that are shiny.
00:29:02.000That's where a lot of this comes from.
00:29:04.000But also because I think there's a fear in the liberty movement of success.
00:29:08.000I do think that there are people who are terrified of success, in part because some of them are anarchists and because if a libertarian wins, then they're doing that.
00:29:15.000Thing that they most oppose, which is govern.
00:29:18.000And also because most of these people were losers who were always pick, catch, laugh for kickballs, so they don't want to have to deal with anything regarding winning because they want to be part of the.
00:29:50.000The frustrations of so many libertarians, common sense, simple libertarians that just want individualism, just want the Constitution, but get so much opposition from the people that think there shouldn't be a government or think that everybody's as bad as the next guy.
00:30:05.000So I think you're absolutely right that the libertarian movement is detrimental to its own cause.
00:30:10.000Now, in closing, I just want to ask more about your campaign.
00:30:15.000And I know you've been asked this a lot.
00:30:16.000I want to give you an opportunity to tell our viewers here why should the libertarians pick you over Gary Johnson?
00:30:26.000He's definitely more experienced at losing, that's for sure.
00:30:31.000Gary Johnson disappeared in between the elections.
00:30:33.000If he was really serious about continuing his campaign, where has he been?
00:30:38.000He just threw his hat in the ring this year.
00:30:41.000His campaign website looks like it was done overnight.
00:30:44.000It wasn't done professionally, that's for sure.
00:30:46.000Is this the campaign that we're going to be trusting to take care of us?
00:30:50.000Again, there's nothing wrong with Gary Johnson on paper.
00:30:53.000And I love marijuana as much as the next guy, and I hope that.
00:30:57.000He makes a million dollars with his business, but the plain fact of the matter is that he ran the business that he had into the ground at this time, and it seems like a sort of a desperate attempt to regain some form of relevance.
00:31:08.000Well, if Gary wins the nomination, I'll probably support him.
00:31:11.000Not because he gets me super excited anymore, but because he's a good man.
00:31:17.000So if he beats me, then I'll give him my vote, because I want to vote for the most libertarian candidate I can, and I think he definitely is.
00:31:25.000But we've seen what Gary Johnson's campaign can do, and I know that everybody's.
00:31:29.000Sort of like, oh, it was the most vote totals ever.
00:31:36.000And now that the Liberty Movement is young, but it's begun to grow up and we've started to mature into our own.
00:31:42.000And I'm not a person, I don't believe in destiny or fate, but I feel myself at the vanguard of this movement.
00:31:49.000I feel myself very much being pressed towards the spear tip and that I've been given these talents and this platform, these opportunities and pushed forward.
00:31:58.000And I'm being bolstered up, buoyed up by hundreds of donors and volunteers who have rallied to my cause, who have said that Austin, this is the man that we want to take us to the future.
00:32:08.000Because when Gary Johnson fades away in four years from now, even if he wins, he'll be gone in four years, ten years.
00:32:16.000You know, how much longer does Gary Johnson really have?
00:32:18.000You know, but by empowering me and my movement, you're not just empowering me individually, you're empowering everyone who is following me, who is associated with me.
00:32:27.000And I think that I'm a good representative of this movement.
00:32:31.000And I think I could make a Damn proud if given the opportunity to carry the torch.
00:32:38.000And I think what you're doing is very noble.
00:32:40.000And I think with Gary Johnson, again, you're right.
00:32:43.000He has come out of the woodwork after four years just to declare his candidacy once again, whereas you've been on the front lines on the Libertarian Republic, on Russia Today, on John Stossel.
00:33:09.000And so now, in addition to that, what do you think is the future of the liberty movement?
00:33:14.000Do you think it's in a third party like yourself, in the Libertarian Party, or do you think it's more in the grassroots movements like the Tea Party or something more conservative mainstream?
00:33:25.000I have really been, you know, I hate looking into the future because I like to call myself, I like to caucus with this group of kids.
00:33:33.000We call ourselves the skeptical libertarians.
00:33:35.000And we like to do things like not just talk about libertarianism, but we talk about debunking psychics and.
00:33:41.000Debunking woo woo and pseudoscience and anti GMO hysteria and vaccine creepers and stuff.
00:33:47.000And a lot of politicians love to say the future will be blah, The future is only going to be when we make it.
00:33:54.000And right now, I see myself at the potential for a new movement to grow out of an old movement that is passing away.
00:34:02.000As Dr. Ron Paul, who inspired my activism, as his sun starts to set, as Gary Johnson's sun starts to set, we need new leadership to rise up and to carry the torch.
00:34:20.000All I know is that I'm going to build an infrastructure, I'm going to build the skeleton of a campaign, and hope that the thousands of people who rallied to the other campaigns for the other libertarian candidates in the past will come and put the flesh and blood into my own.
00:34:37.000If not, if I'm not successful for that, the liberty movement might do well, then they might go on just fine without me.
00:34:43.000In fact, if I don't make it, I hope that they do.
00:34:46.000But I'm doing everything I can to build up my camp and House Peterson to prepare for the eventuality that I would be the nominee.
00:34:54.000And so I'm ready to take this fight to the status.
00:34:57.000I'm tired of fighting with the libertarians.
00:34:59.000I'm ready to go to war with the liberals like Tom Hartman, like you've watched.
00:35:04.000I'm ready to go to war against Donald Trump.
00:35:06.000You know, if the liberty movement wants to give me the cannons and the axes and the swords and the materials that I need to go into battle, I promise you that I will be able to accomplish great things, but I cannot do without people such as yourself or others because one man simply can't fight this fight alone.
00:35:26.000I think, again, you've hit the nail right on the head.
00:35:30.000It means a lot to me as a frustrated libertarian myself, seeing a guy like Rand Paul get trounced by the Republicans, seeing all kinds of libertarians eat each other alive while the liberals stick together.
00:35:41.000The collectivists, like you said, tend to collect and they sweep us every time.
00:35:45.000So I think you might be the guy to carry the torch.
00:35:48.000Is there anything you'd like to say as a closing statement to the voters?
00:35:56.000Listen, if you're very sincerely interested in helping the campaign, there are a few things that you can do.
00:36:02.000The most important thing that you can do is to join the Libertarian Party in your state, go to your state convention, and become a delegate.
00:36:11.000Delegates will have voting authority in May at a national convention in Florida.
00:36:16.000If you become a delegate in your state and then you come to Florida, you can vote for me to become the nominee of the Libertarian Party.
00:36:23.000That's the most important thing that I need.
00:36:25.000After that, you can donate by going to austinpeterson2016.com.
00:36:30.000And if you're a poor, broke college student or a young guy who just can't afford five bucks for a bumper sticker, no problem.
00:36:37.000If you're looking for good experience and you want to learn how to fight status, volunteer.
00:36:42.000I know how to turn volunteers, little padawans, into Liberty Jedi.
00:36:47.000I'm very experienced at taking people who are passionate about this message, finding their skills and talents, and cranking them up into a real professional.
00:36:58.000Of several professional libertarians, many of them that you'll see on Fox News every day, others that you'll see prominent in think tanks, people that have started as my intern that I turned into liberty champions just like me.