Gary Johnson would make a better POTUS than Donald Trump

IntroductionUnfortunately I won't be able to fit all of my points due to character limitations, but here goes. LikabilityCon claims that Trump's repugnant character is a rouse to gain popularity. This is a questionable tactic considering Trump's obnoxious persona is the reason he is so hated by many in his own party, and all around the world [1]. People don't like to work with others they don't like. Working with foreign leaders and being sensitive to cultural differences is important, while Trump has proven he is very me-centric and not respectful or knowledgeable enough to adapt to other people's cultural expectations. He brags about doing the opposite.In this debate, we are mainly looking at the candidate's personality and platforms -- not the actual limitations of the presidency as it pertains to Congressional gridlock. Yet Con wants to use Trump's (questionable) record as a businessman as an indicator of his competency to guide Congress effectively. First, Gary Johnson is multi-millionaire CEO. He got $10 million for a business he started his junior year of college and built into a 1,000-employee firm (without a small loan of a million dollars). He now runs a company in an entirely new industry, proving he does have the skill of adaptability. Trump's position is largely in part to his incredibly wealthy family who gave him every opportunity in the world. His business savvy is NOT the foremost reason for his success. Con suggests "It's likely that [Johnson] would just be yet another obstructionist, 'do-nothing' president." However it's wrong to say that Johnson using his veto power to effectively govern is "do nothing." On the contrary, Johnson balanced the budget and created a substantial reserve fund. This required far more than simply nixing every proposal. He took proactive measures to fix the budget. Donald Trump's list of proposed advisers is laughable at best. One of them is a 2009 college graduate who lists Model UN as a credential [2]. Others have a slew of corruption allegations [3]. Experts claim that Trump’s failure to staff up his foreign-policy team is unprecedented, and his "move to surround himself with neophytes and fringe players suggests he doesn’t grasp how Washington’s network of decision-makers collaborate on important global decisions" [3]. Everyone is baffled by his choices [4] and his own party considers his advisers "rotten" [5]. It is not a bare assertion that Trump engages in hostile conflicts; it is a well documented reality [6] and regardless of his motives, not a good indication of how Trump will deal with other important authorities.Military and Foreign PolicyGary Johnson is NOT an isolationist. He supports responsible interventionism. Our militaristic engagements have proven to be harmful and counterproductive, yet Trump wants to perpetuate more of our absurd policies. It was U.S. interventionism that has specifically led to the creation and empowerment of terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda [7]. Con has failed to show how U.S. militaristic hegemony has preserved peace. We have been involved in perpetual militaristic conflict for decades while continuous violence has ensued despite our routine interventionism. This has had unjustifiably expensive and proven dangerous blowback that threatens our national security [8]. Con claims that Trump wants to cut military spending and cited a #7 source that did not say this at all. Instead his source confirmed my points about wasteful military spending and why it needs to be curbed. We have every reason to believe that Johnson will scale back spending while Trump will not.Donald said he wants to build more ships and planes [9]. This is a massive expense that he cannot push on our allies. He can't control them, and he exaggerates the burden our allies put on our military anyhow [10].Trump told Sean Hannity in March 2016 that he would increase military spending [11]. RBC Capital Markets' Robert Stallard said Trump's "typically erratic" stance on foreign policy creates enough uncertainty to imagine a serious jump in spending [12].We know his proposals will increase DOD spending including the border fence; calling to take out ISIS with continual presence overseas; his anti-NATO stance with Russia and his condemnation of the Iran Deal, which leads to greater conflict in the Middle East. His positions on China and Japan's nuclear weapons could promote violence in Asia. He also wants to add more military personnel. War on Drugs Here is an exact quote from Con's very own source which is directed at Trump: "You used to think that legalization, taking the profit out, would solve that problem. What changed your mind?" As you can see, Trump changed his mind. My opponent cannot disprove my comments on the War on Drugs being a miserable failure, thus he fraudulently tries to misrepresent Trump's position. Here are several more sources where Trump flip-flops and claims he is NOT opposed to the War on Drugs [13, 14, 15]. Extend every single one of my arguments regarding Johnson's policy being superior to Trump's in this regard.The EconomyCon claims that U.S. debt isn't a problem. As the national debt per capita increases, "it reduces the amount of tax revenue available to spend on other governmental services. Over time this will cause people to experience a lower standard of living" [16]. Corporations will have to raise the prices of goods to accommodate lending margins. People will have to pay more for things, thereby resulting in inflation. Plus the cost of borrowing money (specifically for homes) will increase for Americans [16]. Increased government debt means productivity is stifled; the economy does not grow and people lose jobs [17]. So yes debt IS a big deal. "Perhaps most importantly, as the risk of a country defaulting on its debt service obligation increases, the country loses its social, economic and political power. This in turn makes the national debt level a national security issue" [16].By cutting public services, Gary Johnson is diverting public jobs to the private sector where they belong. Tax payers do not have to overpay and people in the private sector are taxed, which actually contributes to the tax pool whereas taxing public employees is redundant and does not alleviate our tax burden. The private sector is more efficient [18, 19, 20] so Con has not proven Johnson's economic policy is bad. Trump's plan has been called impossible [21] and would allegedly add trillions to our debt [22]. He wants to cut taxes but not remove some of our greatest expenditures. Trump is not fiscally conservative. Immigration Con does not contest the border fence will cost billions - which Con says is perfectly fine; that it will not cover all U.S. borders; and that most illegal immigrants enter the U.S. by plane, thereby making this a moot "solution." Therefore most of the crime Con attributes to immigrants would still exist even with Trump's wall. But most immigrants do not engage in violent crime which I've sourced in the last round, and here's another saying that only a tiny percentage of the nation’s violent crimes are attributed to immigrants [23]. The vast majority of violent crime (especially by immigrants) is a direct result of the War on Drugs which I've addressed. Still, according to FBI crime stats, only 8%murderers in this country were known to be Hispanic let alone illegal immigrants [24], and violent crime has decreased while illegal immigration has increased [25]. Con says the wall is about screening. But Gary Johnson WOULD ALSO screen immigrants. He is in favor of background checks for immigrants [26] because "federal authorities DO need to know who is crossing our borders and be able to prevent criminals from entering the country" [27]. Donald Trump = Enemy of the Constitution. A) Trump wants to undo birthright citizenship and gut the 14th amendment. B) Trump declares war on the 5th amendment and its protections for property rights [28].C) Trump has called for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States, which offends multiple Constitutional principles including religious liberty, due process and equal protection. D) The First Amendment forbids the government from shuttering houses of worship, yet Trump has unabashedly called for the state to close down mosques. E) Trump has said that he believes in internet censorship - a blatant violation of free speech. F) Trump wants to gut libel law so that it will be easier for him to sue (and thus silence) those journalists who write unkind things about him, which inhibits freedom of the press.G) While he said he "hates the concept," Trump has praised FDR's internment of Japanese-Americans which he felt was necessary during a time of war. Trump suggested he may have supported it and could support it again in relation to Muslims [29].SOURCES: http://www.debate.org...