Good points, especially “[w]e need to in effect re-educate people in the principles of freedom by asserting and discussing the merits of non-intervention specifically and a philosophy of liberty more generally. Once people are given the tools to think properly by educating them in our essays and speeches they will discover the origins of the laws and principles of this nation on their own.”

The only problem is that contemporary American society is in the terminal grip of two pernicious traits: laziness and selfishness. In order to truly guide “the People” back to the qualities that enabled liberty to flourish in this country for at least a few decades following independence, some antidote to these two traits must be found. Otherwise, John and Jane Q. Public will continue to see the State as their only lifeline and salvation and no progress can be made toward re-establishing freedom as the status quo.

Please provide the readership with links to this “overwhelming evidence.”

Thank You

I too have had my reservations about Ron in the past. I have wondered, for example, how it is that the Establishment Majority hasn’t resorted to using the “dirty tricks” tactics against him that have destroyed so many other idealistic politicians’ careers (or ended their lives) in the past. After some reflection, I have decided that the reason Ron is “allowed” (for lack of a better word) to continue on his current path is precisely because he is a minority of one whose ideas and influence are limited in their immediate impact. The Establishment must maintain at least the thin facade of “liberty” to prop up the sham of “democracy”, at least for the time being. All of that could change, however, as the political and economic situation in this country continues to deteriorate and Ron’s ideas, based on immutable and proven truths, gain serious traction and are picked up by other candidates for elective office who successfully get themselves elected. This is the point at which things could get dicey for liberty loving politicians who, like Ron, strive to reclaim the America of the Founders.

One lone Ron Paul the Establishment can tolerate. Five or six (or more) represents a threat to their power that will almost certainly prompt some genuine ugliness that will tear the mask off and expose the current Kleptoplutocracy for what it really is. I sincerely hope that I’m being overly pessimistic and paranoid, but current trends (and past history) don’t seem to offer encouragement.

The two best answers to that question I can give are:

1) The system that “elects” presidents is hopelessly corrupt and too firmly controlled by the very Establishment that Ron Paul so firmly fights against that it will NEVER permit anyone outside of its grasp to sit in the Oval Office.

2) Something approaching a majority of the Amoricon sheeple are too ignorant and unprincipled to either elect or tolerate a president of Ron Paul’s caliber and principles and thus are suffering under the corrupt, brutal, criminal regime that they fully deserve.

I’m leaning toward number two as the most likely explanation.

1) Why doesn’t the rest of Congress just literally die and let Ron Paul run the show? Rainbows would beam across America and puppies would fall out of the sky into the waiting arms of every little boy and girl across the land. If only…

2) Call me a blasphemer, but I think we need to dump the rhetoric of referring to our “Founders”, for in this modern age, our general populace is so ignorant of the events surrounding the founding of this nation that I don’t think there’s enough relevance in that reference to make a connection. We need to in effect re-educate people in the principles of freedom by asserting and discussing the merits of non-intervention specifically and a philosophy of liberty more generally. Once people are given the tools to think properly by educating them in our essays and speeches they will discover the origins of the laws and principles of this nation on their own. Just a thought…