[newheart]

I think it goes deeper than just the legalization of marijuana, though I won’t deny that for some it is the reason for their support.

Ron Paul is far better situated within the Libertarian party than the so-called Libertarian wing of the Republican Party. (And personally I wish he would just go there instead of interfering with a party which he seems to hold in contempt.)

Young people are also iconoclastic. That label fits Ron Paul quite nicely. While he is very specific in describing the icons he wants to destroy, the youth are often less concerned with specificity and just happy to see someone tearing things down.

Finally, young are very often predisposed to libertarian ideology (nobody gets to tell me what to believe in or what to do) even though they often conflate “libertarianism” with “libertinism.”

[ex-snook]

“I think it goes deeper than just the legalization of marijuana, though I won’t deny that for some it is the reason for their support.”

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You could also throw in that they don’t want to involved in endless wars and paying for them. Exactly like the Vietnam young. Paul is more like them than Romney or Gingrich.

[Psalm 144]

“Ron Paul is far better situated within the Libertarian party than the so-called Libertarian wing of the Republican Party.”

How would you distinguish those two? Not stirring the pot here. Genuinely curious, as I see a lot of practical overlap between conservative and libertarian ideals. I also think that conservatives by themselves will lose election after election, despite being the largest plurality of the population.

[noinfringers2]

“nobody gets to tell me what to believe in or what to do” so apt in my case. As a young person I often felt I had to remind my older associates/relatives that I had as much right to the roadway of life as any older person. Of course this attitude was tempered quite a bit as I went through infantry training and overseas duty in WWII. After that enlightening experience my attitude changed towards realization that the world,i.e. my relatives and associates or others, did not owe me any part of their roadway. Today my view has changed somewhat so that I feel I do not have to and will not get off the roadway for any person ,old or young, who believes I shouldn’t be there.