Yep - same thoughts here. I am basically in the mode of building up my ranch to move to within the next 5 years. The USA is going to shit. I give it another 8 years before extreme riots and poverty. We are on a fiscal policy collapse. China and Russia will end our petro dollar.
Extreme riots and poverty are the best case scenario. Keeping going in the same direction we're going is the worst case scenario. Whatever it is, it's bad. And the thing is, liberty is the best way to run the country, but liberty really isn't the solution to our particular problems right now. he bad
The bad guys are in charge. So, we get a ideal President, a Paul, and we get the least amount of government we'd possibly get. Government is still there. And the bad guys are still in charge. Finding the bad guys and chopping their heads off. And I know that's not Libertarian, and I'm not here all the time talking this. We're just screwed. Every days things are getting worse, and the likelihood of me voting the in the future, keeps going down. There's no optimism or hope, just a dwindling vestigal sense of duty or something, I don't know exactly what it might be. But it's not vote for someone who will make this country better. The people in charge, who really are just awful, evil people, very much like how things are going, and are not interested in anything different, and it hasn't been set up at all to allow that to happen.
Now, maybe Rand really crushed it at the colleges and the universities. In which case, hooray, something something happy. It would be nice to be able to point to some crushing it, somewhere in Iowa at some caucuses. At least they can go and learn what it took to crush it there. Maybe they're on it and they're crushing it.