Four candidates are carrying the Libertarian banner in British Columbia (B.C.) this election. Covid libertarian Robert Johnson is running in Vernon-Lumby.
Vernon-Lumby Libertarian candidate hopes to ‘act the jester’ to point out follies of other parties | Vernon Matters | Liam Verster:
Robert Johnson.
October 8, 2024 - "A small-government advocate hopes to point out the failings of B.C.’s legacy parties with his campaign for MLA. Robert Johnson, the B.C. Libertarian Party candidate for Vernon-Lumby, was born and raised in Alberta, and moved to Salmon Arm in 2009, where he currently lives and works as a part-time dentist.
“'I’m only running in Vernon because of the ridiculous political system we have where everyone’s worried about vote splitting and stuff, because we’ve got all these conservative and independent candidates running against each other,' Johnson told Vernon Matters.... 'I’m not really trying to win this election, I’m just trying to play the court jester. I could have done that anywhere; it wouldn’t have mattered.'
"Johnson expanded on his view of 'acting the jester.' 'There’s something called "post-truth world," which in my mind is there is no such thing as the truth. You’ve got your truth, I’ve got my truth, your subjective experience is true for you. I don’t want to live like that,' the Libertarian candidate said.
So the court jester is like from the Emperor Has No Clothes, it’s the person that tells the truth to the king, and there’s some quote from somebody that says "If you’re going to tell the truth, you need to make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you." So all I’ve been trying to do for the past four and a half year[s] is point out what’s really going on around here, and everyone that’s been doing that has been called names and ostracized and has had their lives destroyed. We’re not going to pretend that didn’t happen.'
"He added he did not agree with the COVID-19 pandemic measures, stating there 'were a lot of things that shouldn’t have been a [topic of] conversation, nevermind something that we actually did.'
"Johnson does not have any political experience, and said he is running to show that 'most Canadians are pretty ignorant when it comes to politics,' and that though he said he described himself as politically ignorant as well, he felt 'it seems to [be] like it doesn’t actually matter which one of these party wins any of these elections, there’s no real meaningful difference in what goes on and things just seem to be getting worse.'
"Johnson, one of just four Libertarian candidates in all of B.C., added he believes the Libertarians to be 'the personal freedom, personal responsibility party' and that individuals 'know better how to live your lives than the government'. He said a Libertarian government would leave people alone to live their lives with minimal red tape and less government interference."
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