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Spend any amount of time on YouTube or scan the various MySpace pages of people in certain age groups and/or those who consider themselves "counterculture," and you'll quickly run across those I refer to as Ron Paul Zombies. Like the zombies you're used to seeing in horror flicks, these folks ambulate in slow unison, repeat the same monosyllabic statements (replacing "Must eat brain," with "Leave it to the states"), and are generally to be avoided at all costs.
They are not just fueled by an interest in seeing their own political ideology flourish, but seem hell bent on some misguided mission to "stick it to the man." There are only two problems: 1) their guy is going to lose; and 2) their guy is a complete fraud who, like them, seems to think that state power would somehow resist devolving into the oppressive, racist, homophobic, mysogynistic horror show it once subjected Americans to.
Unlike the undead, however, we might be able to offer Ron Paul's bloodthirsty followers a cure. It's called an education.
