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You have my vote!!!! Michael Shellenberger Like your books......

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win and come save Canada of the same problems

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I have so much respect for you, Michael. I follow you on Twitter, I’ve bought two of your books, and I’ve donated to your organization (not campaign). You’re probably right that because of your large following, you’re likely to come in second in the primary.

But after reading this, I can’t vote for you and I was going to drop my ballot in the mail today. But I won’t. You still don’t understand.

You consider yourself to be liberal in your compassion for the vulnerable, a libertarian in your compassion for freedom, and a conservative in your belief that you need a civilization to support both of them.

Michael, who are more vulnerable than babies and children?

It’s a contradiction to say that you have compassion for the vulnerable and then turn around and favor the legalization of abortion.

It’s a contradiction to look around and see that politicians throughout the world, rock stars, banks, jewelry stores, etc are protected with armed guards but leftist pandering should be sufficient for our school zones.

It’s a contradiction to say that my safety and security should be limited by gun laws when I’m a law abiding citizen.

You don’t have compassion for the vulnerable. You have compassion for your specific causes. It’s remarkable that you don’t see that.

In addition, after everything we’ve just been through with COVID, the lockdowns, masking, the injections, the lies upon lies, the WHO trying to usurp the sovereignty of the vote of the American citizen how anyone could possibly still be in favor of universal healthcare philosophically or otherwise.

You seem like a great person. I love your hard work. But I can’t vote for you friend.

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If you win, I am really curious to see how you are going to implement good policies dealing with the mentally ill and drug addicted homeless population. It's very hard to confine a mentally ill person beyond 3 days and there really isn't enough places to do even that.

The bigger the shelter, the more brutal it becomes. The parent of a friend of mine has been living in NYC shelters for the last 10 years. The parent is extremely ill and has been assaulted and robbed in the shelter numerous times. The shelter tried to place the parent in subsidized housing to no avail. Their behaviors are too complex for family members to handle (they have tried).

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