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What can be done about it? Must we wait for the inevitable and expect to restore our liberties in a street fight against the overwhelming power of the state? Not a good option!
The only way that we can prevent blood from running in the streets is to offer a better idea of the proper role of government in a society that desires first and foremost liberty.
And that is impossible without a firm commitment by our thought leaders to the ideas of freedom, the source of all creative energy and prosperity. An all-powerful state is the threat to that ideal.
The prevailing attitude of the people-as it once was in early America-must be that of liberty and self reliance, rather than the nanny state and dependency relying on government force to mold all private choices.
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Kind of an ironic way to start considering he has been one longer than most.
I just watched I.O.U.S.A (2008) on netflix instant... I am convinced Ron Paul might be our only hope. America is broke and we are all fu^$ed! if we don;t deal with our debt and spending... we might be screwed either way.
I kind of like what Politico had to say in profiling his successor, Gary Johnson, also misled.
“he shares some of [Ron Paul’s] libertarian alarmist views, but without the penchant for gold standard wonkiness.”
It should be fun watching two kooks vying for the kookiest award.
Doom and gloom on acid.
Good article.
One can argue if purely mechanical, economic measures in absence of a religious awakening could rescue the Republic, — and this is where Ron Paul’s libertarian idelology fails, — but the analysis of the current state of economic affairs is spot on. Notably, no one made a contrary argument based on the article itself, and caricatures in the age of Photoshop come cheaply.