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Ron Paul: Welcome To The Great Transition
Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Liberty Report,
It’s a shame to see what has happened so far in this new century. The last century ended with a victory over defeated communism. I think that was the greatest victory of the 20th century. Events showed that communism did not work.
Unfortunately, we jumped to the conclusion that we had an Empire to defend, and that Keynesian economics would solve all of our problems. Printing money, spending money, and debt wouldn’t matter, and we would bring peace to the world and make everyone good democrats.
Right now, the refugee crisis that we see in Europe is a failure of government policies and a failure of central banking. In some ways, I think we are in a great transition period. This cannot continue. The big danger is if the results of this failure are total poverty for more and more nations and total war. Or, hopefully, we can wise up and say that these policies have failed.
The American people should lead the charge on this. The policies are lousy, and yet government is always adding more and more of the same. The worse the economy gets, the more we’re starting to hear about socialism and authoritarianism as the cures.
So we live in an age in which the policies of the past are coming to an end. The Keynesian model does not work, and our Empire does not work. This total failure has to change, and we need to present the alternative.
For me, the alternative is free markets, free society, civil liberties, and a foreign policy where we mind our own business. The alternative is peace and prosperity. We were told about these things in our early years, but it seems they’ve been forgotten. We’d be much better off in this country with such a policy and we could set a standard for the rest of the world.
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Demographics are Destiny.
Ron Paul is controlled opposition. He had 30 years to do something, and he never made a dent in the establishment. He pulled out of the only election he had a chance in after asking everyone to donate to him. A true politician. The Audit the Fed bill was a complete farce, gutted in the 11th hour with his approval.
Ron Paul is a traitor.
as is everyone who has been "elected" since 1971. Some might argue, 1913.
So what's your point?
Oh yeah he is opposition alright. He has always opposed central banks, the Fed, fiat currency, wars, war on drugs, and countless other losses of liberty we as Americans have faced.
Ron Paul is the best American statesmen of all time. He has voted pro-liberty on every issue and did not get bought out by the DC lobby.
End the Fed!!!!!!!!
I wouldn't say Ron was a fraud.
Fraud-lite, I think.
Anyone see Ron's new commercials warning of an economic collapse? BTW, he's not trying to sell gold/silver like 99% of other people who make this prediction. Ron is only offering the knowledge to protect yourself and your familiy. I wish I could buy that man a beer.
Take ten bucks and donate to Rand's moneybomb on September 7th!!!
Ron has endorsed Rand and has said they agree on 99% of things. Of course, you can look up Rands voting record and actions for yourself!
I have donated to Rand Paul for this election cycle and I will continue to do so untill the maximum if he will stay in the race.
sorry but the "mind your own business" thing bothers me....ya we aren't great...but there are really, really bad people out there that would kill millions including us. the pre WWII mind your own business thing didn't work out. The let people drug themselves into a stupor doesn't work...crime goes mental...I lived in Holland late 80's..which now has strong drug law than the USA. Sadly we are getting the government by and for the oligarchs! We need to break up the criminal mega banks(and we need to tax their movement of money...government already gets us)....as that is a big big problem...with a whole cadre of narcissists that live for the next bonus and could care less if the world implodes to get it! There are no Carnegie's among them and they BUILD NOTHING...THEY ARE TAKERS!
The US government has killed millions of us. And of course, by us i meam humans. The US government has killed more than any government.
The nonintervention policy works. I think you need to do some research on WWII and pearl harbor. I'll leave it at that for now.
BBombingonly creates more enemies. That is why the government and the MIC love the drones. They drop a bomb on a wedding party, there's thousands and thousands more 'terrorists' creates who want to seek revenge.
Imagine if China bombed a wedding here in the states. People all over would sign up to get revenge. Only the Chinese's wouldn't think to give us arms and money, like the US government did for Al-qeada and ISIS.
the whole "minding our own business thing" before WWII would have worked fine if we were actually minding our own busienss. As usual, we weren't. Also, our interventionism in WWI essentially guaranteed WWII. Up until then, we were smart enough to observe history and see that every couple generations europe decided to conduct near genocide on an entire generation of young men is senseless wars against each other, and stay out of their battles. WWI changed that. Its all been down here since then. Minding our own business worked out pretty well when we actually did it. Its cheap too, don't need to spend a trillion a year on warfare of have 1000 bases overseas to do it.
Japan declared naval war on the US well after the US declared trade war in the form of embargoes with natural resources being traded to Japan forcing their hand to war to seize US colonies for natural resources or curb their apetite for industrialization.
Similarly Lend Lease program with England and USSR and embargoes against exports to Germany sealed the deal for Germany to declare war on US well before Japan ever telegraphed their plans for attacking Pearl Harbor.
Excluding WW1 FDR still did his best to make US a target for Japan and Germany.
US entered WW1 after being "nuetral" exporting a ratio of 8:2 Allies to Central Powers.
JPM and other banksters have pushed the US into every major conflict since 1913.
End the Fed!
Mind our own business, and protect our borders/citizenry. Stop ALL legal and illegal immigration AND H1-b visas.
Prohibition supports the mega banks.
Read Catherine Austin Fitts "Narco Dollars" .
I like Ron, but the truth is that on the day that control over our money supply was given to a private entity, the republic died. That's the truth of it, period, full stop. On that day, anyone with any remote understanding of the constitution should have begun organizing and fighting for a new consitutional congress. The final control was lost when the silver certificate was dropped in 1971...
40+ years later and still no revolution?!?! Fuck em, fuck em all.
Ron Paul's one failing is that he apparently has not read Lobaczewski and is not directing his invective at the real problem: evil, i.e., psychopathy.
I agree with nearly everything he says, but getting rid of the Fed is simply playing Whack-a-mole with them scheme by scheme. It's a damn symptom, doc. Treat the cause, not the symptom.
If you could wave a magic wand tomorrow and make the Fed disappear, another bankster scheme to defraud the U.S. would replace it in a matter of weeks.
If you got rid of Fed and the banksters, it would be called anti-Semitism (sorry - cheap shot). If you got rid of the Fed and the banksters, someone else just as psychopathic would step in to practice usuary and defraud the U.S. in a matter of months.
If you got rid of the Justice Department which allows this criminal behavior, THEY would be replaced by equally harmful psychopaths.
If you got rid of the treasonous sellout bribe-whores in Congress... well, you get the idea.
If we could only graft Lobaczewski's head on Ron Paul's shoulders...
Uh huh... and he has ducked for cover every time he has been placed in a position to actually do something. Not to mention he participates in the 9/11 lie.
People don't vote for people who see a dark future.
And honestly, I'm starting to believe I don't know anybody who doesn't believe tomorrow will be better then today as long as the government steps in and gives away money.
And people know where that money comes from and understand the entire logic but they don't give a fuck or just don't wish to understand the last picture.
And if you talk doom, people will avoid you.
I've stopped warning people or talking economics about 2 years ago.
Against friends, I act as if I have no clue, but I ask the riht questions hoping the answer and start to look for the answers themselves.
People will vote for the guy that says: FREE PEANUTS FOR EVERYBODY!
So that's why trump won't win the elections. Unlike Obama, he's not telling people he'll pay their bills. He's not saying they'll get a extra tablet with that free phone.
Wait... we can get free peanuts?
Asking questions is a good way to make people think without activating their authoritarian-defense mechanisms.
@ Publicus, Ron was the ONLY person who consistently stood up against all this nonsense and you say he is a farce for not fixing it all himself? He was outnumbered 534 to 1, how exactly was he supposed to fix this by himself? What the fuck have YOU done?
I'm tired of this negative meme about Ron Paul. He may not be eloquent but he tells the unvarnished truth, albeit in a squeaky voice. He is a diminutive man of outsized stature with hugely encompassing proposals for a better America and a safer world. He is manifestly a gentleman and of impeccable integrity. If he did not accomplish what you and I might have hoped for, it was not for not trying. The citizenry is not ready. We, the people, are the controlled opposition.
Ron Paul was telling us the truth before Tyler was born buddy. Unfortunately for him he was about the only one on the hill that was even interested in something that wouldn't further their campaigns, line their pockets, or go to bed with them that night. He was ineffective only because the rest of the spineless, self interested idiots could only focus on whatever the MSM was instructing them to. You, sir, are an ass.
Exactly. Anyone who doesn't see this is in for one helluva rude awakening. If demographics don't change, i.e., policies aren't instituted to adreess the issue, the outcome is inevitable.
Exactly. Anyone who doesn't see this is in for one helluva rude awakening. If demographics don't change, i.e., policies aren't instituted to adreess the issue, the outcome is inevitable.
Transition? That's pretty optimistic Mr. Paul. Especially for a white guy.
And he promises prosperity without any reference to energy security.
The guy is dumb? Or he just doesn't want to go there? Because if you scratch the surface of 60 years of (recent) US hegemony, it was most of the time about energy.
bingo, in order to actually do/make anything real, you need consumable calories. The exponential equations that are at work, behind the scenes, are not in our favor. Get those fusion reactors online already!!
http://protonboron.com/portal/
This country has incredibly vast coal reserves. Problem solved.
Sadly, Ron, if it isn't a rap lyric, sell-side prognostication, or a Kardashian tweet, then nobody is listening.
Have you considered changing your sex?
There is also a lot of interest in Miley, EBT, and disability payments.
On the bright side after the reset there is pain,hunger, and immense untold suffering so we've got that going for us!
I hope Obama waves the Iran nuclear deal in the air and that there's a stiff breeze blowing so he can have his "Neville Chamberlain" moment recorded for history.
Yes, the U.S. should mind it's own business and get the hell out of Europe and everywhere else, but we all know that doesn't make money for the M.I.C. or allow Wall Street and Goldman Sachs to spread their evil across the World.
In reality the alternative will be similar to a story by George Orwell
As a generation X'er I firmly believe that once all of the crazies in power succumb to death in 20 years THEN we will be free.
Sadly, there is never a shortage of crazies.
@Steaming_Pile - I remember thinking the exact thing back in the late 60's, early 70's. And of course most of my generation turned into exactly the thing that we abhored. Yours will do the same because...and I know this is before your time..."The song remains the same"
The tidal wave is coming and we'll find out what's really going to happen....so much speculation until then. thank you Ron for your resonance with truth.
Ok Ronnie Boy - let's start by incarcerating ALL elected Federal officials that are members of AIPAC.
Get rid of free speech and freedom of association.
It is the American way.
Bankers have demonstrated why un-regulated free markets are a utopian fantasy.
We de-regulated banks and trusted bankers and they rigged every market they could.
We removed the 1930s legislation designed to prevent another 1929 and they did it again in 2008.
We can thank the bankers for reminding us of the necessity of legislation and why it was enacted in the first place.
There is lots of financial regulation because bankers are incompetent, unscrupulous and entirely without morals.
Honest bankers and businessmen are as rare as rocking horse shit.
Horse shit rocks?
Please explain when we have had un-regulated free markets...also explain what horrible thing came about from un-regulated free markets.
He's right though... unregulated free market is just going to mean that large concentrations of wealth simply hire private armies and control us directly rather than through government proxies. Unless you can outline a realistic way to prevent that outcome...
Or just buy the Government/law/police/army and let the people pay for their own oppression themselves (like the capitalists have done in US - and many other places).
You're begging the question.
A free market is precisely where you DO NOT allow the initiation of force by anyone, no matter how much money they have. This requires maintaining an educated, moral populace that defends themselves and does not fall for tricks like fiat currency or socialism, which allow these brutal thugs to come to power. In a free society "large concentrations of wealth" can only be sustained by those who are producing value and allocating capital wisely. And any profit is seen as the signal for others to compete, not to be crushed by regulators.
And there's where it all falls apart. Your alert, aware populace is a fantasy. Don't forget that J6P has an IQ of 100. Not 110, not 105... 100. What you're talking about is eliminating J6Ps susceptibility to propaganda. This will not happen.
@2h, if true, then we're screwed no matter what. A stupid, immoral populace will destroy itself. An enlightened, peaceful one will prosper.
Whether right or wrong, I choose to believe that people are capable of improving. Thus, I will continue to work towards enlightenment.
That's what I think... we're screwed no matter what. We're at least 10000 years of evolution from being able to build large systems that work.
shrug
Wish I could give you a hundred upvotes, ap_duck.
"large concentrations of wealth simply hire private armies" -- This already happens, the issue is with how much control they can actually achieve. It is a lot easier to control unarmed populations for sure.
Maybe 200 years ago when there wasn't much of a tech gap between the army and the populace. The US is the most heavily armed population on earth and they still have us by the balls. I have a few hunting rifles lying around myself... but have no illusions about trying to use them on drones or armored vehicles. Or, for that matter, trained soldiers that outnumber me and have assault weapons.
Read this book:
http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/V/Vo/Von_Dach_Bern_H_-_Total_resistance.pdf
Hardcopy available at Amazon for $16:
http://www.amazon.com/Total-Resistance-H-Von-Dach/dp/0873640217
excellent book.
Non regulated banking since 71. Free markets only in some parts of Wild Wild West i.e. undeveloped societies.
I thought this site was full of free-market capitalists? Non regulated banking since 71? I guess you don't count the federal reserve buying long term bonds back in '61? Regulation does NOT work ...not in private transactions...and not in banking.
Gold regulated banking. Printing press unregulated it. And than computing Ctrl+C. After each regulation, banks figured out how to deregulate hence I don't believe in crying after banks lack of freedom.
I though you understood this after working since age of 7 and stockpiling all into gold.
We de-regulated banks and trusted bankers and they rigged every market they could.
If banking had been deregulated then the FRN would no longer be legal tender, competing currencies would circulate freely and anyone would be able to open a bank. None of that ever happened. The banking cartel exists because of regulation not a lack of regulation.
Paul is as clueless as anyone. There is no alternative. Communism sucks. Capitalism sucks. There is no way at this moment in history or at this stage of human evolution to build a large system that does not favor the privileged few. We're fucked.
People are greedy and the human race is a dismal species.
The end is nigh.
Batman, much as I like your avatar, you sound like the Joker.
The end is never nigh except for a nation, a tribe, a mindset...
Humanity will survive.
It does seem that way sometimes but, like you say, the human race will carry on and there are plenty of good people too.
Unfortunately, the scum always floats to the top.
The picture is of the London Eye and the Houses of Parliament that I took.
I then photoshopped it to distort the colours.
The London Eye watching over the Houses of Parliament does have some significance, but don't look too deeply (there is nothing there).
Sociopaths rise to the top.
It has been true as long as there have been humans.
Politicians used to be considered lower than whores. Now we celebrate them.
Humanity is a construct that became obsolete when the George Bush Torture Regime opted for the ethics of the Central Intelligence Agency over the Geneva Convention that prohibits torture. Humanity did not survive during the mass genocide of American citizens when the CIA imploded the World Trade Centers #1, & #2, plus building #7 with a controlled demolition, eh. What is so-called 'humanity' after a so-called superpower does that sort of shit to their own effin' people?
NOTE: The CIA ain't Humanitarians.
Humans function just fine under evolutionary conditions. But seeing as how we have zero chance of returning to village sized politically autonomous groupings, I would agree that the end is nigh. The agricultural revolution came at least 10000 years before we were ready, and the cockroaches shall inherit the earth.
There are plenty of solutions. One might start by not being so sure you know everything.
Ok, I'll bite. Outline a realistic way to prevent wealth from being leveraged into power. It'd have to be a way that does not require attentiveness and critical thinking from the masses, because that will not happen when the average IQ is around 100. Unless you can do that we're fucked.
Average IQ can never rise above 100. By design. OTOH there is the Flynn effect.
Outline a realistic way to prevent wealth from being leveraged into power.
The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard
http://anarcho-capitalist.org/wp-content/pdfs/Rothbard%20%28Murray%29%20...
Can you point out one nation where "capitailsm" is the economic model? Perhaps you are confusing the central banking fiat top-down scheme for actual Capitalism.
You can't own land in the United States.
You don't own your income; a remaining portion is granted to you, arbitrarily, by the state.
Your currency is forced upon you in the form of infinitely printed fiat-dollars.
Interest rates are arbitrarily set.
ETC.
Sound like "capitalism" to you?
Printing free money does not work especially if it supports a hegemonical system; the petrodollar reserve; as that way it corrupts the WHOLE WORLD. Thats the price of being Caesar.
When you're up head up ass and Caesar; DATS BAAAAD; wery bad!
Now, as for Keynes, he was never Caesar and NEVA EVA advised printing money to give it to the RICHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....
NEVA !
So Mr Ron PAul change your language if you want to CONVINCE !
Btw, you haven't done a great job of convincing the American people so far...nor the people accross the Pond.
THIS is the BIG CON, STOP IT!
Inflation-adjusted stock prices are rarely shown:
http://www.showrealhist.com/begun.gif
http://www.showrealhist.com/
http://www.showrealhist.com/recDJIAtoRD.html
Will this deception by omission end?
The 'Empire' as it currently exists, cannot abide with 'peace & prosperity', for it was never re-designed to abide with anything but the $proceeds of war in the first place.
For me, the alternative is free markets, free society, civil liberties, and a foreign policy where we mind our own business. The alternative is peace and prosperity. We were told about these things in our early years, but it seems they’ve been forgotten. We’d be much better off in this country with such a policy and we could set a standard for the rest of the world.
Why did WTC7 fall down Ron? You were in the congress then and on a first name basis with those who were actually in on it. You haven't made a peep about it ... then, or since. And neither has your son.
Why?
Sure, their theories have been wrong and their practices despicable, there is no doubt on that. But, once their actions, the intentions, the manipulation of everything and the corruption becomes apparent once the damage they have caused is understood, they will all hang, AND THEY KNOW IT. So it will be one hell of a ride until they are overthrown. I say overthrown because there is no other way regimes that corrupt are removed. So don't think in terms of elections and political process here. The deep state they have created in order to advance their interests and also protect themselves from scrutiny, has a life of its own and will not go away by some elected guy. It will kill the elected guy. There will be more restrictions, there will be more violations of every right you have in mind. Eventually there will be a regime of martial law without it being called that. And then, it will either be violently overthrown from the inside with a bloody revolution and possible breakup of the US, or it will collapse from an external shock caused by some foreign conflict. Either way the worse is yet to come.
Had you won the last election from that trained chimp by the Polish hurdy gurdy psychopath that owns him who had no business being reelected without a civil war taking place after the votes were counted we would have had a chance...
Ron admit it brother... You're lookin for that train in the station that left 4 years ago!
Love me some Paul boys. Was going to partially fund Rand, but he blew it by backing Kiev, and not backing Assad.
Despite the doom and gloom stories, it's still pretty rad in America. There are SO MANY opportunities to make a buck here. Granted, much of it needs to happen on the 'grey market,' but man...
I'm constantly amazed at how many people get FILTHY RICH here, with just another good idea. Like the guy that invented the hand-hold that fits into the door-jam of most cars. Probably a very wealthy man now.
Another growth industry is; smart Americans buying garbage made in China, and selling it dumb Americans. Opportunities abound.
Or pop music. Stick out your ass, rhyme two words together, make a good beat, that I can dance to. Put your name on a set of overweight headphones... Millions, billions, empires out of air...
The European communist states were brought down deliberately. The collapse idea is MSM propaganda intended to squash the idea that there is any other alternative to our system. Communism does work, for some value of "work", although personally I abhor the idea.
Sean Gervasi: How the US terminated the USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9_aYcpxClA
That's an interesting take. I agree. Nothing 'just happens.' This is the big mission.
It'll be interesting to see how they cope with 1m+ angry new faces, demanding the best they have to offer in housing, food, and medicine. I'm seriously considering the idea that 'they' are bringing about a holy race war, to just settle this once and for all.
I actually feel blessed now, to be only dealing with a S. American migration. South Americans are at least reasonable Catholics. Good people, good food, fun to be around.
I've been thinking along similar lines. It's clear to me that it won't take much to develop a literally explosive reaction to the migrant invasion into Europe. Start with economic collapse, disrupt the MSM matrix just enough, maybe unmask a couple of the huge lies we have been told over the past 100 years and BOOM. As controlled as our politicians are here surely they must see that too.
Something quite hopeful to me is that the Eastern Euros are having none of it. Their governments are doing all they can to get rid of the invaders. They have not been under the thumb of the western elite for long, and having lived under communism for so long I suspect that they are somewhat vaccinated against collectivist ideas like multiculturalism and egalitarianism.
EDIT: just to add, a couple of Eastern Europeans that I know well are acutely aware of propaganda. Western Europeans by and large don't seem to have a clue that the TV or the newspaper might be lying to them.
Yup. Former Soviet Block nations seem to have this one figured out. I'd be rekindling my romance with Russia right about now too. Stopping trains, putting up fences. Russia knows what to do about the hordes from the South, lots of experience there.
So in the coming race war should I be for or against Jews?
If I were in Europe, I'd be ordering up some Mossad, Uzi, Jew Coke t-shirts and hoodies, wearing them proudly.
U wot m8?
Well most people think the world would be a much better place if, everyone thought like they did.
Free markets? Free society? That will never sit well with the elite control freaks and they'll fight it all the down until there is absolutely nothing left. Count on it.
The elites must go... or mankind will.
Your choice.
Sounds just the way like Norman Rockwell painted. I hate to say it but the guy is seriously behind the times. Like. fatally behind.
And that's why humans are finished.
The vast majority are willing slaves.
Executive order 11110
"our Empire" Right, like the dude owns the FED or something.
Freedom is a means unto an end and an end unto itself. Sadly, too many people today believe we have something resembling freedom and that it is therefore responsible for the problems we face.
By 2024 the US will only be a zone, we will have a one world government and one world financial system. The FED will be shuttered in favor of a global central bank.
It is the age of Aquarius which is paving the way daily.
I now see Ron Paul as part of this process, whether he knows it or not.
YES - we're in the middle of a Great Transition.
BUT HECK NO - we don't know where we are going, our politicians don't know where we are going, and the American people are all moving in different directions.
So ... do you really think that we will get it all together?
You dont run an empire by minding your own business, but then you dont run an empire anymore anyway. All this talk of "Minding your own business" is just recognition of the fact that power has shifted from the US to China, and an emerging Russia. its a Three Dog night now
China is an economic basket case - the books are cooked. And the Russians? They invented the Potemkin Village.
Debt is not the cause of slavery. The desire to live beyond one's means is the cause of slavery.
Hey ZH readers, If anyone is interested in brazilian history and want to see our 'Ron Paul' that would have saved Brazil but zionist media never supported him, check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efAgr7LKNO0
Its a speech that he made in english about the financial system and Brazil. You guys will like.
Cheers from banana republic.
theres three alternatives, none will work.
#1the bis owns the wagon," ie america, 50% of americans are making payments,"taxed", to pay for the wagon, plus paying the fare,"ie taxed" for the other 50% ride free, who thinks this will change?
#2 keep pushing for a war we can't win, how many millennials are going to sign up to fight?
the student loan program would triple if they reinstate the draft, and Canada would have to build a fence.
#3scare the hell out of everyone, and elect trump.
just an aside, on zh we hear from millenials, gen-exer's, and baby boomers, why do we not here from the millions in the 75-90% income bracket, where do they think they stand?
gating mmf's, and myra's are going to be very politically hard to sell to 75-90% of the voters.
i cast my firsrt vote for president Reagan, lest people forget, the tax rate was 70% for high income earners.
At this point in time, 99.99% of humans will accept whatever the predator-that-be demand of them, and do to them. Individualists must take care of themselves.
Therefore, the only viable choice for the 0.01% (or less) who refuse to accept enslavement or destruction is to escape to some obscure location in the middle of nowhere that nobody knows or cares about. Set up a self-sufficient life, either with low-tech (cheap up front) or high-tech (expensive up front) techniques, and remain "outta sight, outta mind".
Understand, I didn't like to come to this conclusion, but I'm an observant, thoughtful, honest realist... and no other viable alternative exists (except one or two extraordinary long-shots that aren't worth mentioning here).
Ron Paul is a wonderful, well-meaning man, but he and his followers are both a million times too meek, and too extremely outnumbered. And they'll never convince anywhere near a majority to back their ideas. NEVER.
Well said, honestann...!
Ron Paul is a wonderful, well-meaning man, but he and his followers are both a million times too meek, and too extremely outnumbered. And they'll never convince anywhere near a majority to back their ideas. NEVER.
It isn't necessary to convince people that reality is real. Reality has a way of rearing its head and biting the asses of those who ignore it. If the fantasies enjoyed by the elite and those too lazy or stupid to resist them could defy reality then we'd have dozens of concurrent Utopias in existence today. Reality always prevails and Ron Paul is nothing if not realistic.
Yes, reality always prevails (has consequences). But political action will not (for liberty advocates).
Too many lazy and desperate vote for anyone who promises freebies, whether they deliver or not. Plus, democracy is a form of slavery. And never forget the Diebold phenomenon.
Ron's legacy is the millions of people whose eyes he opened in regard to the concept of liberty. He reminded us that we own ourselves. When reality bites, those millions will have a better chance to get the ball rolling in the right direction than they had before. Ron may not be "electable" to the Presidency but he has affected many individuals on a personal level. And since it is the individual that is important and not the collective I'd say that Ron has had great success.
For one human being, he has had amazing success in introducing "regular folks" to liberty oriented ideas.
The problem is, most of his focus remains on the political, which is hopeless.
To his credit, when asked about "prepping", "anarchy" and so-called "fringe actions" that can make a massive difference for individuals, he answers supportively.
I would never diss Ron Paul, I simply wish liberty advocates would waste ZERO more of their time, effort, focus and resources on political actions... and prepare THEMSELVES for what is coming very soon now.
Like "get the hell outta dodge" (western nations).
You do realize if we had not intevened in WWII Hitler would have finished the Bomb. He would have put all the nations under his thumb and completed his plan to have an all white race only living on this planet.