Interview: Spike Cohen, Libertarian Nominee for Vice President

Listen to our conversation with the candidate to hear how his platform can tackle the greatest problems facing the United States today.

On June 7th, Merion West’s Kevin Turner was joined by Spike Cohen, the vice presidential nominee on the Libertarian Party’s ticket in the upcoming presidential election. Merion West recently interviewed the ticket’s presidential candidate, Dr. Jo Jorgensen, available here.

On the Republican and Democratic parties in the wake of recent social upheaval: “In some sense the 2020 election is like 2016 since both Republican and Democrat candidates are not popular politicians. But it is even worse for them than 2016 because both the Left and the Right are experiencing their own dystopian situations.

The Right with the lockdowns and saying the government decides whose work is ‘essential’ or not. On the Left and for the people across the board, who are experiencing this police brutality and in response to protest against police brutality, many police responded by brutalizing them, by attacking them while simultaneously allowing the rest of the city—because their forces are concentrated on brutalizing these protesters while the entire rest of the city left un-policed, so the looters who have nothing to do with the protests, can come in and start looting businesses.”

On education policy: “Education is one perfect issue that people might say the government should do something about it, and when they say government, they mean the federal government in Washington DC. We are so conditioned that The President needs to deal with whatever thing this is. When you centralize such decision to the government like that, you make small powerful group of people, arbitrarily making decisions for many hundreds and millions of parents and children.”