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seapeas:

Things that need to stop:

• people not vaccinating their fucking kids

liberalchristian:

The Poor Misguided Cult of Ron Paul

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livealifethatscompletelyfree:

It is amazing to me how many people support Ron Paul. What is not surprising is that these people, that will burst into any place you may be as soon as they hear any criticism towards their “dear leader” are just as much blind sheep, as they think the people they love to criticize are. Are you confused yet? Let me explain.

Ron Paul supporters bank on the fact that they are unique. They want pot to be legalized, they want to put an end to the FED (Federal Reserve), they want less government, and they claim that they don’t want any rights taken away from them. They condemn the “sheep” as they call them, for being against any of this, and being against it just means that you are against Ron Paul, by the way, because if you really did want civil liberties, less government, and pot to be legal, you would totally support Ron Paul. Hmm…does anyone see a problem with this?

Well, let’s tackle one thing at a time. I’ll start with Ron Paul’s campaign claim to “shut down the FED.” Ron Paul supporters love him for promising this and they will smite anyone who disagrees. The FED is the problem and it needs to be shut down and Ron Paul says he will do it when elected president. A promise is good enough for them. Right, because the president gets to do whatever he wants, regardless of what Congress says. And I guess Ron Paul is the first honest presidential candidate, so he couldn’t possibly be lying just so he could get elected, right?

Campaign promises are worth about as much as birthday wishes. And shutting down the FED is one hell of a birthday wish. Moving on.

So Ron Paul is all for less government. His followers think this is a good idea? Let’s recap. Deregulation of the banks caused them to get big—too big to fail, if I remember correctly. Corporations are people, now, because of less government. Yet, this seems like a good idea to Ron Paul supporters, who insist less government equals more civil liberties. That brings me to my next point—civil liberties.

How ironic is it that Ron Paul supporters would claim that he, of all people, cares the most about their civil rights? This man who is a bigot, a racist, a Young Earth Creationist, anti women’s rights, and against the separation of church and state—but he will work hard to make it legal for you to smoke a joint in public if you vote for him—does not care about your civil rights. This man who was an obstetrician and gynecologist before entering the world of politics and delivered some 4,000 babies wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. This man is the author of several racist newsletters, and as much as he might deny it, those newsletters had his stamp of approval. He’s a Constitutionalist, for crying out loud! He holds the most conservative voting record in the history of Congress since 1937. How modern can he possibly be? 

The fact is, Ron Paul is NOT an adequate representation of what freedom and rights are all about. His supporters are the sheep. They will follow him no matter what truth is revealed about him because for some reason, they see in him some kind of super hero. The fact that Ron Paul is on the opposite side of the spectrum of most politicians today does NOT make him a good alternative. He may be on the opposite side of the spectrum, but he is far away from reality, as well.

I am all for legalizing marijuana, but I have to wonder, is this cult of Ron Paul only supporting him and willing to trade in their hard fought and won civil liberties just so they can smoke a joint every now and then? With all the new evidence piling up against this image that Ron Paul has tried to create of being a tolerant and seemingly modern candidate, I think that is the only reasonable assumption a person can make. As a person who debates regularly with his cult members, that seems to be the only thing they care about. It’s time to take the blinders off, Ron Paul sheep.

I’m even conflicted about legalizing marijuana. I’m fully in favor of decriminalizing it, but Ron Paul’s dream, which is fucking ridiculous, is to make a pack of joints available at 7-11. I bet it wouldn’t take too much thinking ahead to figure out who has the resources, corporate infrastructure and technology already in place to produce this product. Paul’s dream isn’t 1969 stoned hippie America. It’s a new product line for R.J. Reynolds and Altria. Do we really want to hand the reins over to these people? The same fuckers who intentionally suppressed information about their products link to cancer, lung disease and birth defects? These companies purposely confused entire generations by featuring “doctors” in their advertisements asserting their cigarettes were no threat to their health. They knew about the dangers and addictive qualities of smoking cigarettes and are directly responsible for millions of deaths to this day. You know what’s slowed the countries tobacco-related deaths? GOVERNMENT FUCKING REGULATION. Limiting their advertising practices, publicizing information about their products and making their dangers widely available, common knowledge are all successes of government regulation and that’s after the tobacco companies shelled out millions and millions to buy (mostly Republican) support in congress in an effort to suppress their worst crimes.

Philip Morris (now Altria) intentionally made their products more addictive, up to 200% more addictive, to keep people from quitting, if you don’t think they’d do the same with the pot you buy from them, you’re a sucker. Under a President Paul (shudders) not only would a company like Altria, who has all the necessary components in place to begin manufacturing and distributing a marijuana product, have an invested interest in adding addictive elements to their products (a tactic they’ve used before), but there’d be no one to prevent them from doing so or to force them from being open about it. They could copyright their recipe and sue anyone who publishes information about additives in their products and, in Paul’s free-market fantasy, win. Paul imagines a world where money controls everything. You’d have to be high to think there’s some merit in that.

In love with every word of this.