"Inheritance and environment direct a man's actions. They suggest to him both the ends and the means. He lives not simply as man
in abstracto; he lives as a son of his family, his race, his people, and his age; as a citizen of his country; as a member of a definite social group; as a practitioner of a certain vocation; as a follower of definite religious, metaphysical, philosophical, and political ideas; as a partisan in many feuds and controversies. He does not himself create his ideas and standards of value; he borrows them from other people. His ideology is what his environment enjoins upon him. Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.
Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave," he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man. Yet the common man does choose. He chooses to adopt traditional patterns or patterns adopted by other people because he is convinced that this procedure is best fitted to achieve his own welfare. And he is ready to change his ideology and consequently his mode of action whenever he becomes convinced that this would better serve his own interests."
Human Action, page 46, Ludwig von Mises
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To: Vintage Freeper
2 posted on
09/22/2011 5:44:05 AM PDT by
humblegunner
(The kinder, gentler version...)
To: Vintage Freeper; Allegra; BlackElk; lormand; Absolutely Nobama
LOL, more slobbering Paul worship BS.
3 posted on
09/22/2011 5:44:05 AM PDT by
mnehring
To: Vintage Freeper
Ron Paul would guarantee the Jewish vote got out to vote against Ron Paul.
Stupid move for Republicans, and Obama is in trouble with the Jewish vote.
4 posted on
09/22/2011 5:44:48 AM PDT by
Kansas58
To: Vintage Freeper
Why would anyone want for the pervert Paul to win? He is a phony Constitutionalist and a Code Pink loser.
5 posted on
09/22/2011 5:45:22 AM PDT by
TheBigIf
To: Vintage Freeper
7 posted on
09/22/2011 5:46:51 AM PDT by
narses
("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." Chesterton)
To: Vintage Freeper
Maybe Paul can, but what nut wants him to win?!
8 posted on
09/22/2011 5:47:41 AM PDT by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: Vintage Freeper
Sorry to dissapoint you, but he can win the Straw Poll at the Seattle Hemp Fest - but that’s about it. In the general election he will come in at about 1.2% of the vote, and most of those are from the anti-war Left.
9 posted on
09/22/2011 5:48:55 AM PDT by
NavyCanDo
To: Vintage Freeper
Ron Paul Can Win If all the other Republicans and the Democrats drop out or die, then maybe. But it'd be close.
10 posted on
09/22/2011 5:49:24 AM PDT by
SoJoCo
To: Vintage Freeper
Win what? Libertarian straw poll?
12 posted on
09/22/2011 5:49:34 AM PDT by
sickoflibs
(Over-taxed means 'paying too much in taxes', not zero taxes)
To: Vintage Freeper
Ron Paul Can Win
Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.
13 posted on
09/22/2011 5:49:44 AM PDT by
McGruff
(Vetting - The process of examination and evaluation of a candidate's record.)
To: Vintage Freeper
What has Paul done in the last three years or so that would change the following 2008 GOP primary outcome into a winner for him? Can you provide some specifics?
14 posted on
09/22/2011 5:51:01 AM PDT by
deport
To: Vintage Freeper
I have a blue Lexus with leather seats for sale that has 40,000 miles for $3500. Perfect condition. I just don’t like the color.
Send a check or money order to me and I’ll have it shipped to you at my expense.
15 posted on
09/22/2011 5:53:15 AM PDT by
listenhillary
(Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
To: Vintage Freeper
To: Vintage Freeper
No, he can’t, for one very simple reason: he is too short and unattractive.
In this day of television, height and looks win every time. There are no exceptions.
17 posted on
09/22/2011 5:55:18 AM PDT by
Wiser now
(Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
To: Vintage Freeper
If Paul wins, it will be because he bought the voting machines or the American public lost what little remains of their sanity.
19 posted on
09/22/2011 5:59:11 AM PDT by
Ingtar
(Together we go broke (from a Pookie18 post))
To: Vintage Freeper
20 posted on
09/22/2011 6:01:35 AM PDT by
mnehring
To: Vintage Freeper
Someone is far too delusional.
21 posted on
09/22/2011 6:02:09 AM PDT by
Howie66
(I can see November (2012) from my house.)
To: Vintage Freeper
I suppose if Barack Obama could be elected then anything is possible, but I also think the author makes the mistake of believing that because he likes Ron Paul's politics that makes him a good candidate. I just don't see it. There are a lot of people out there with a great ideology (I'm not sure Ron Paul's ideology is great) that are not good candidates. If 2008 proves anything it's that elections are, first and foremost, beauty contests, like it or not. A candidate who says that 9/11 is America's fault, even tangentially, is not going to win any beauty contests.
Besides, watershed events are just as likely to go against us, as the author's example of Churchill proves. I, for one, don't look forward to them. The reality on the ground is that Ron Paul won't win in 2012 and probably never will. We'll see Hillary Clinton first.
22 posted on
09/22/2011 6:02:28 AM PDT by
Batrachian
(Not every human problem deserves a law.)
To: Vintage Freeper
"Waiter! I'll have what he's drinking!"
24 posted on
09/22/2011 6:06:02 AM PDT by
airborne
(Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
To: Vintage Freeper
Time to lay off the pipe.
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