Wow. Do all of these people who are deriding Ron Paul and his supporters really believe that the government is looking out for their best interests when it comes to health care, education, the water supply, regulation of business? As a lifelong Democrat, feminist, midwife, mother, I find myself in the odd position of changing my party affiliation to vote for the only candidate who is even speaking about--let alone fighting for--health freedom and educational freedom, among other issues.

The public schools were created to keep people passive--read John Dewey, look at the history of how and why these schools were pushed on the people. In some areas they had to use armed men to get kids to the schools because the families DID NOT WANT THEM TO GO. We are such sheep now that we take our kids there willingly. And we put poisons in their bodies (vaccines, chlorine and fluoride, etc.) willingly as well. We actually believe that these things are positive! How many people have to suffer before we will acknowledge that the "treatment" is worse than the "cure."

All of these things are signs of a people that has forgotten how to think for itself. It doesn't take much digging to find the truth behind the garbage we are fed as dogma, but most people won't do it.

If I want to treat my kids who are ill at home, I don't want the gov't telling me it's child abuse. If I help a woman have a baby at home, I want to be safe from ridiculous laws that think normal birth is inherently dangerous. My homeschooled kids need to be safe from the truant officer (and busybodies who think that learning happens on worksheets instead of in real life). I want pure water, not forced medication.

Ron Paul may be personally anti-abortion, but I would rather let the states decide about abortion rights than have the mess we have in every other area of life under government as it is now. We have to make a radical change, and I think Ron Paul could help with that. Either that, or I have to move to a homestead, buy a cow, grow my own food--because I can't feed the crap that our government sanctions as food to my family. Oh--I can't do that, because our government/business leaders have driven most people off of the land and into dead end, stultifying, occupations in crowded cities with no hope of ever digging out of that hole. None of us can afford land, because it's too valuable for InstaMansions. The few farmers left are huge business operations propped up by subsidies for commodities that are making us all sick and fat.

What was that about the government protecting our health and food quality again?