[Laissez-faire capitalist]

If Ron Paul explains that he is pro-free-market, pro-small business and pro-corporation, just not pro-corporatism and explains the difference, there shouldn’t be any problems.

He can explain real quick that the governments job is to prevent force (for example, the individual mandate in ObamaCare is force) and fraud and that a blending of socialism and big governemnt is what we are seeing, with gov’t controlling the flow, and the insurance companies getting the bucks at tax-payer expense through the individual mandate, there shouldn’t be any problems.

He could also explain how the same is taking place now with other sectors of the economy.

Americans aren’t anti-business, andi-corporation and they will see that Ron Paul isn’t, either.

[ansel12]

You lost readers by making this a Ron Paul thread.

[Kenny Bunk]

In the 1930's, laissez-faire capitalists thought fascism was just great for a while. Stabilized markets, got things moving, trains on time, roads paved, put people to work ... that sort of thing. That actually was at least partially true for Mussolini, who as a Prime Minister was at least nominally under a king in a crumbling royal parliamentary model. However, what made fascism work for both Mussolini, and much more so for his follower Hitler, was naked brute force in one-party parliaments, in the courts, and especially on the streets.

Obama certainly gives one the impression of having some tendencies toward taking up this option. E.G., The Attack on Jindfal's people in NOLA, is a typical fascist street action.

l-fc, we are repeating history.