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May 08, 2008, 08:49AM

Crazy Old Democrat Talks Sense, Joins Libertarians

Former Alaska senator Mike Gravel is best known as the excitable long-shot participant in the early Democratic primaries. He's since joined the Libertarian party, and in this interview he tells young people exactly why the issues that matter to them aren't getting enough respect.

"If all the technology is available, what’s keeping us from implementing greener solutions?

All it takes is leadership. Then we can shut down coal plants and nuclear plants. I mean shutting down. I don’t buy this cap and trade. All that is doing is trying to maintain polluting elements in a grandfather clause. That’s terrible. I’m told for $2,500 you can tweak your car to take hydrogen. That’s awesome. The only polluting part of that is water vapor. Why are we messing around with all this other stuff? It’s the short-coming of representative government. That’s where we’re broken.

Hopefully young people will be able to look back and say that they knocked some sense into older generations.

Understand that countries like Spain, Finland, and Sweden can pay for the entire education of their children. The reason why we can’t is because we’re squandering money on the military industrial process which will then put you into wars and ruin your bodies and lives. What you need to do is protest this process. You gotta wake up. The only way to solve this problem is to empower yourselves as lawmakers. People will defer, "Oh, our leaders are in representative government." We’ll they’re not doing a good job and they haven’t been from the get go. There are two venues for change: One is leadership of government—where the problem lies—and the other is the American people. Empower the people with the central power of government to make laws and then you can make change and weigh in your life on issues and not just vote on personalities.

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