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Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009
Pro-choice people shouldn't have a problem with Ron because there are dangerous herbs out there that might end pregnancies.
And all his economic polices are well-grounded in info found in Widipedia.
Like in the French Revolution or Pol Pot. Is THAT radical enough for you?
Sorry, but that claim is absurd.
Let's speak realistically here. What government effort has done more to harm black Americans than any other? The drug war, easily. It enables the police to break into people's homes on the slightest pretense (in what rational world does suspicion that somebody might have marijuana justify breaking into their home, guns drawn, in the middle of the night?), haul them into court, and apply mandatory minimum sentencing to put them in prison for a non-violent offense, keeping them away from their families and possibly training them to enter a life of crime by virtue of their daily exposure to real criminals. The drug war has created a black market which destroys African American families by artificially inflating the prices of drugs and introducing violent conflict (since you can't exactly appeal to the law to regulate something which is illegal in the first place), sending young black men off to prison and thereby forever tarnishing their life, their reputation, their job prospects. In supporting an end to the war on drugs, Paul represents the greatest possibility of hope for America's black community.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5EuNgqIiz60
Kindly see the following, a very logical, fact based and eloquent repudiation of goldbug nuttiness:
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-gold.htm
Like most everything else that right wingers claim, the problems with our monetary systems aren't the tools, but instead the user....to mix my metaphors and analogies, putting incompetent corrupt scumbags in the drivers seat, and then having their cake and eating it by taking it as proof that the vehicle doesn't work correctly so it is imperative that we throw the baby out with the bathwater in order to gain recourse.
Is that a convoluted mess? Well, that's the thought process.
I do think that the characterization by the author of this was spot on.....enthusiastic idealistic know nothings (who are in many cases ignorant to the degree that they do not realize the depths of their ignorance)......it never fails to astound me how people that want to depend on "the market" to fix everything know virtually nothing about how it actually operates.
Vitam Vas
Now we have an economy run on IOUs.
On the pro-choice thing: First, it's not philosophically inconsistent IF you believe that natural rights begin at conception. That doesn't make it the right view, just the philosophically consistent one.
That said, his view of the role of government means that the federal government shouldn't be involved in the question at all. That's a viewpoint that on the face of it should be acceptable to both sides. When you let the states deal with it, the people who live in the states are the ones that ultimately decide.
Of course, it means you have to actually care about state politics for that to work (oh noes!).
Also, whatever happened to contraception? Does it suddenly not exist? There seems to be an automatic assumption online that the instant a woman decides she has equal rights with a man, she becomes pregnant through some philosophical immaculate conception, and only universally legalized abortion can solve this crippling moral problem.
It's ridiculous. The man's allowed to hold a pro-life view if he wants to... after all, his entire stance is that government shouldn't be the reflection of the ideologies of just one man, or of the rich and powerful elites. He's not Bush. He wants to have the power so that he can pare it down, not to enforce his worldview in areas the government has no business poking its nose.
Novel concept, isn't it?
Eighty-eight responses so far and only brief mention of the "gift" that Paul is a Republican. I suspect he could just as easily appeal to independents if he was a Dem.
Every dollar given and every phone call made on his behalf is a boon for Democrats. It is hard not to be vindicative given what participating Democrats have been forced to endure--as opposed to the armchair version. Will the Paul supporters be as intransigent as the Dean supporters were?
Will there finally be a serious potential third party rift in GOP loyalty? Even if the perfidious liberals do not come back to the democratic process there is at least some hope if the party finally fractures. The Rudy/Mitt split is instructive, but not as an appeal to the true independents.
Maybe it won't matter so much who the Dems nominate, or the question will be more mute and it won't matter what the ideologues think. Perhaps the party will not self-destruct at least for this election.
As much as I support the aspiration, the need for a mainline Dem to show they have what it takes to win is too much of an imperative at present. A war is being fought at present for all the wrong reasons.
Libertarianism sounds good on paper, but I want somebody in office right now who is not afraid to get their hands dirty with the current mess--an unadulterated pragmatist is what the times call for, in other words, a politician who takes it as it comes rather than tries to run an agenda.
Ron Paul for President? Sure. Go for it.
My car has a Kucinich sticker on the left and a Paul sticker on the right. I have contributed money to both campaigns. Both are passionate defenders of the Constitution, though from different perspectives. Either would check the growing influence of the oligarchy of wealth and power that threatens our heritage of independence and liberty, but in different ways. Neither is the "perfect" candidate. Any perusal of my letters to Salon reveals that I have supported Ron Paul quest for office, but I would be just about as delighted to see Dennis Kucinich taking the oath of office January 2008. Both candidates challenge the vision of what is possible in government that the corporate-controlled mainstream media consistently promotes. More than anything else, these candidates transcend the fear-mongering and corporate shilling of the "top tier" to show us a future of truth, hope, and justice. The American public has never been better served than by these principled members of the House seeking the Presidency. I hope this nation has the wisdom to reject the "insider" brokers of wealth and power and embrace a new approach.
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