The problem for them is -- they never will get the money; it always finds another home. With the debt and deficit ballooned out of sight, that money isn't heading in their direction. The naturally productive ones will eventually “grow up” and realize the truth about living in a safe, free market society but many will hang fast to the hope (libertarians for sure) that once the "war on drugs" and the "evil military complex” have their wings clipped, some of those trillions of “wasted” dollars will certainly flow to them. It won't and their lot will be worse. We have for too long been building “me-me-itis” generations, whose values and goals are nurtured and fanned by teachings of socialist professors spawned in the Sixties who have multiplied themselves with our youth.
So Ron Paul is their cup of tea. They’re only one step away from OWS (most likely have a foot in both camps already). If Ron Paul definitively said, "I will not run third Party," much of his support would evaporate today. Which is precisely why he has not ruled it out.
I’ll tell you why I support Ron Paul. My primary concern is the wild, unrestrained growth of the Federal government. If it continues, it will only be a few years before it bankrupts us, and then probably enslaves us. I look at my bank statement, trying to figure out when I’ll be able to retire. My conclusion is, at the current levels of inflation, rates of return in the market, coupled with the fact that Social Security will be gone by the time I get there, means I’ll never be able to retire. All of this I blame on the insane spending being done by the government.
I think Ron Paul is the candidate who will best limit Washington’s spending. I also think he’s the guy who will shut down the unending regulations coming from the executive branch, which is killing private industry. If it makes you feel any better, if Paul has no chance, and Rick Perry catches a wave, I’ll probably vote for Perry. Paul is my first choice, though.
I think the Paul youth were a phenomenon of the last election—pre-crash and pre-Obama administration—as well. Kind of an OWS/libertarian mush, but fairly idealistic IMO. I also think there’s a fair mix of the personally productive within them.
They believe, rightly, that many of his policies would be good for the economy. And to a degree they are right that we have wasted national resources on misguided military adventurism. The ugly extremist underbelly of Paul they can either dismiss, be ignorant of, or secretly believe in as well.