I stand with Carson.
https://www.bencarson.com/issues
Let's see:
"Protecting Innocent Life" - fair enough, in and of itself, but clashes with his militantly pro-gun stance
"Balanced Budget" - A reasonable request, what's he going to do differently to Obama who has massively reduced the structural deficit?
"Education" - he says he values education, but then claims that evolution isn't real, and wants to remove any sort of standards to which schools can be held accountable, opening the pork-barrel for any sort of reality-denying drivel
"Keep Gitmo Open" - Illegal detention without trial, what could be more in keeping with the American idea of 'The Land of the Free'
"Health Care" - he's against it, it appears
"Keep Faith in our Society" - another of the deluded 'War Against Christianity' ranters, no-one is trying to remove the right to pray privately
"Russia and Lessons Learnt" - He recognises the threat of Russia and Putin, which is good; sounds a little gung-ho, but with no specific recommendations in here it's difficult to take a line on it.
"Protect the Second Amendment" - someone who claims to be so strongly pro-life should at least have qualms about the gun-culture in the US. The right of law-abiding citizens to own firearms is not fundamental to their liberty, the provision of a robust, independent public defender's office is fundamental to their liberty. Civilisations keep the peace through the law and the courts, not through posses. The right to own firearms is a valid point, but the circumstances under which they can be acquired, the types available for general purpose, and the conditions under which they can be kept are all open to review.
"Stand by Israel" - Israel needs allies and security, yes, but he could also have stood to speak on the actions of Israel and their illegal occupation of lands and territories in continued defiance of various UN resolutions which are exacerbating the local situation.
"The American People Deserve Tax Reform" - no real argument with the principles espoused here, I wonder what his actual suggestions are, but I like the idea.
Beyond that the man's on record as perpetuating the nonsense idea that the Second Law of Thermodynamics somehow invalidates evolution and the Big Bang, he's equated homosexuality with paedophilia and bestiality in slippery slope arguments about marriage equality but nothing highlights his lack of any real grasp of reality so much as his equating the Affordable Care Act with slavery.
The man's a tool, and as much as some of us worry that, along with Putin's Russia, the Americans are a threat to global security, that idiot in the Oval Office would make the possibility of economic collapse, an escalation of hostilities and a continued decline in America's education and health-care systems a virtual certainty.
O.
