Congressional Candidate Steve Feldman: Eliminating the deficit, end militaristic escalation, oppose Israel’s killings and apartheid.

The world-renowned dermatology expert, relative of Holocaust survivors, and author Dr. Steve Feldman is running for Congress to represent North Carolina’s tenth congressional district as a Libertarian Candidate.

Feldman believes that the debt burdening the government is unsustainable and that eliminating the deficit is essential to free resources for more useful allocations. Unlike me and other candidates I have interviewed like the former Libertarian Candidate Jeff Scott, he does not see unsustainable debt and unwise policies as a result of deliberate corruption. He instead believes that people in office genuinely mean well but make misinformed decisions due to shortsightedness, biases, and mistakes. As a Congressperson, he promises to focus on achieving his policy goals rather than making enemies. Having interviewed several political candidates, worked for a political campaign as a publicist and recruiter, and worked for a nonprofit social justice-focused organization as a researcher, I find his optimism to be a very rare trait among the politically active. Some of his statements intrigued me and made me wonder how they would be received if he won office.

His message on foreign policy rests on ending what he sees as a politics of aggression that creates immoral military actions, unjustified blockages and sanctions, and unnecessary rivalries. unnecessary death. Despite initially facing pushback from his community, he is adamant about publicly voicing opposition to the maintaining of Israel’s apartheid, which he explained is a legacy of ethnic cleansing rather than a security necessity. His worldview might be best expressed by his historical fiction novel Bent Towards Justice, which I still have yet to read, that tells the story of a Polish Holocaust who confronts his mistaken belief that Palestinians are bound to be enemies of the Jewish people. Altogether, this is a fascinating discussion that I hope you will listen to, and if you live in North Carolina’s tenth congressional district, that you vote for Steve Feldman.