Big Ticket Issues: BP Guide to Liberty in the 2020 Election

While The Backpage agrees with the majority of candidates that climate change is a huge issue, we cannot agree in the direction of such climate change. Middle ground is important in politics, and I think we can all agree that a nice tropical vacation is just what we all need. So when looking for your presidential candidate, don’t trust any of these liars demonizing Global Warming. They’re probably...

The National Juul Association is the primary association promoting free exchange of vapor products among minors, a right guaranteed to us by... uh... oh wait it’s illegal... Anyway, we here at Liberty know the importance of a free, unregulated Juul market for minors. That’s why it’s so important that 2020’s candidate has to promote legislation supporting policies such as putting Juuls in school...

The big ticket issue for Liberty voters in 2020 is certain to be student salary reform moving forward. For too long student voices have gone unheard in labor reform discussions, and that has to end now. 2019 data from the Federation of Academic Real Compensation Enforcement (FARCE), student wages have stagnated at an unfair $0.00. Even with parent subsidization, that’s not even enough for the hardworking...

The world around us is undergoing rapid change, and many don’t even realize it. By 2022, experts estimate that 12.5 percent of Liberty’s class periods will be gone. Many student-led efforts have tried and failed to prevent this dramatic shift, but at this point it is inevitable. 2020’s candidate has to have a plan to warn tomorrow’s citizens about the world they will live in. Many candidates...

As we look around campus and see all that our student government has done, we have to exercise a critical eye and see all the problems that our government has. For instance, take the creation and distribution of Senior Sweats. A fine product, to be sure, but is that really what our government should be doing? Student Government’s job, according to our founding documents (The Student Handbook), is...

For too long in this school, bathrooms have not proportionally represented Liberty students. That ends in 2020. A candidate that we support has to correct this injustice immediately. While women account for approximately 50 percent of bathroom usage, they are mysteriously overrepresented in bathrooms, having 54 percent of bathrooms schoolwide dedicated exclusively to them. The bathroom gap is real,...