Ron Paul and Ronald Reagan over a quarter of a century ago...
Ron Paul won the recent California straw poll by a landslide with 44.9 % of the vote to Rick Perry's 29.3 % and Mitt Romney's mere 8.8 % (as tolerant as Californians claim to be Mormonism doesn't go over well in the state).
With near ZERO support from the major newspapers and television networks in the US, Ron Paul has made use of his limited time in the debates as well as the internet and book publishing to make his politics known to the masses. Major television networks have pushed the not too well thought out idea that Ron Paul is somehow mentally unsound as he has made headway in the polls (he remains the only candidate whose expressed views have been consistent from day one). Clearly, this is only because Mr. Paul runs in opposition to the political system which engenders a close relationship with the larger forms of news media in order to control this republic's politics in a not too democratic way; to steer it in a direction that maintains the status quo to the point of a very few maintaining and expanding their pocketbooks at a perilous cost to both the national and international economy, and leaves no room in politics for men and women of alternative ideas.
But eventually, once the economy has entered a state of perpetual recession and collapse (as it now finally has), the public will no longer remain able to keep its blinders on as to the real state of current affairs (as we now are becoming all too painfully aware). Obama promised radical change, away from the obviously destructive methods of the Bush regime, but on stepping into the former president's shoes he continued in exactly the same direction as his predecessor. Whether this is because he is in reality a part of the same elite social clubs that carry on the same singular agenda or because the executive office truly no longer has any actual executive authority (recall Leon Panetta telling Obama early on that a Democratic president can't tell the Pentagon what to do, although on paper at least he is said to be the commander in chief of the armed forces) doesn't really matter: the results are the same.
Ron Paul is one man who is not part of the establishment. He was never an editor of a Harvard newspaper, never part of Yale's Skull & Bones club, never a supporter of the Federal Reserve Bank and the excessive printing of paper that helps sink the value of the US currency ever further into the abyss of worthlessness. Essentially, his values were never maligned to the point of wishing to be a part of a few financially successful groups at the expense of the well being and even the lives of the many. George W. Bush and Barack Obama cannot enter the ranks of those who have actually tried to help the common man. They were simply blinded by an overwhelming lust for power and would say anything and be anything to the point of standing for nothing, personifying nothing but the absolute blindness of the lust for ultimate power.
Obama now wants to raise taxes by $1.5 trillion in the midst of the Greatest Recession since 1929. The financial outlook for the United States and the world is only getting bleaker and yet Obama seeks this tax hike (which is the opposite of what is needed for economic growth in a time when America and the world needs it the most) and at the same time will not end the useless, inane wars in the Middle East which are increasingly becoming an exercise in futility all the while costing upwards of $3 trillion. Who in government can possibly genuinely think any of this is a good idea? That it makes sense on any level? The leading force drawing attention to this insanity is Ron Paul.
Ron Paul has led the GOP in the direction of his conservative and libertarian ideology about the peril in which this nation finds itself and how to remedy its ills. The GOP didn't listen in 2008 when he last appeared on the scene, but they are listening now, and so is Obama. Ron Paul wants to end the Federal Reserve Bank, end the wars in the Middle East, he wants to return to Americans a sense of accountability and power in their government that has been sadly lacking at least since the days of Ronald Reagan, if not far before him. (Ask yourself, of the candidates vying for the GOP nomination, who would Ronald Reagan most likely have backed based on the strength of their ideas, and consistency?)
Over a year ago, Ron Paul polled in a dead heat with Obama. Recently, in a Gallup poll, he has been ranked within a couple of percentage points of the president. In a poll by CNN, he led the pack of conservative candidates, doing the best against Obama. When is the major news media finally going to see that he is actually a first-string candidate? When will the GOP finally acknowledge that he has what it takes to go all they way? Can a man who actually stands for something (peace, freedom, and the constitution) contend in modern day politics? We have yet to see.
Is the power still, at the end of the day, with the people? Probably not, but here's hoping it is....
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