Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/31/progressives_and_the_ron_paul_fallacies/singleton/
I strongly recommend this article for reading whether you be liberal or conservative. If you have any respect for our Constitution, like the idea of being able to compete on a level playing field and wish to have any influence in the operation of our government, you can’t possibly support any of our mainstream Presidential candidates _except_ for Ron Paul. As much as it sticks in my craw to say so (the guy is a fruit cake on the highest level), I have to contend that he is starting to become the best candidate of the abysmal lot we have to choose from. The mainstream GOP candidates all want to out Obama Obama, which means even more oligarchy, less privacy, more wealth transfer from the middle class to the rich, etc. Of course, since Obama has been doing this for 3 years now, no rational human can possibly think that he won’t continue exactly the same course for the next 5 years, so anyone who casts a vote for Obama is casting a vote thusly:
Yes, I’m willing to continue to have Muslim children slaughtered by covert drones and cluster bombs, and America’s minorities imprisoned by the hundreds of thousands for no good reason, and the CIA able to run rampant with no checks or transparency, and privacy eroded further by the unchecked Surveillance State, and American citizens targeted by the President for assassination with no due process, and whistleblowers threatened with life imprisonment for “espionage,” and the Fed able to dole out trillions to bankers in secret, and a substantially higher risk of war with Iran (fought by the U.S. or by Israel with U.S. support) in exchange for less severe cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs, the preservation of the Education and Energy Departments, more stringent environmental regulations, broader health care coverage, defense of reproductive rights for women, stronger enforcement of civil rights for America’s minorities, a President with no associations with racist views in a newsletter, and a more progressive Supreme Court.
While any vote for a conventional GOP candidate is voting for all the first part along with destruction of our social safety net, eroding environmental protections, giving up a woman’s control over her body (why is it they want the govt to keep its hands off their guns, but they are happy to have the govt’s hands in their women’s wombs?), etc. Only by voting for Ron Paul is there any sort of daylight between the direction the Dems and GOP are taking us now and the place I am sure that everyone who isn’t part of the oligarchy would like to go (why people continue to support the idea of giving billion dollar handouts to the wealthy is OK but supporting needy people is a travesty just boggles my mind).
So I guess I am in the position where I find the lesser of all evils (and a lot of Paul’s stuff is quite evil, but the others are way more evil) is to support Ron Paul.
Ron Paul for President! At least he won’t sell you out!
