In the scheme of politics, winning is everything.
And since the political Establishment has defined the "rules" of the race, you can be certain that it is rigged... no one who is a true threat to their "system" has a snowball's chance of winning. Well, that was certainly true pre-Trump... perhaps there is a sea-change coming.
What you are overlooking is that we had to have people who have been
prepared to occupy seats as they are able to win them -- by "prepared", I mean prepared not only ideologically (values), but also in terms of the deception, trickery and corruption of the "system". If you're not prepared for that, it will just overwhelm you. Ron Paul 100% knew about the corruption in the US government but he didn't let it discourage him. That alone makes him almost completely unique in American history. The vast majority of Americans with RP's values (honest, integrity, traditional social values, etc.) get tangled up in some kind of
Mr. Jefferson Goes To Washington situation, then disavow politics forever after. So the key preparation that Ron Paul has helped lay the groundwork for is to get the younger generation to understand that
DC is incorrigibly corrupt.
If you go to DC, you have to have something more in mind than just "we're gunna change da laws!!!!!!" The laws can, indeed, be changed. But tilting at windmills, Don Quixote style, will get you nowhere. DC has seen a million like you, and even better, chewed them all up and spit them out. It's not hopeless, but it's not simple, either. That's the balance that Ron Paul modeled and which younger folks thinking of going to DC will benefit from emulating.
But these people (like me) aren't doing anything, aren't in positions to effect change beyond our homes (and perhaps that's honestly the best place for all of us to start anyway),
That's it!
Ok, I get that. So here's my next question: what good does this forum do? How many active people are there anymore? 200? What does this forum do to advance liberty? To me, this forum is like the local bar - I come here to drown away my sorrows with like minded individuals. There's not enough of us left (it seems to me) for us to mount campaigns (political or educational) and get our ideas not only out there for the people (and as you said, freedom is NOT popular), but enacted to benefit people like us.
I can't find the exact quote, but I will paraphrase it: "Every significant change throughout history has not been the result of a sweeping mass movement but of a tiny, committed minority who have clung to their cause against all odds." The globalist Marxists understand this. This is why they are perfectly content to hide away in their academic ivory towers. Does Noam Chomsky head a "mass movement" of any kind? Of course not. But Chomsky is the root of an enormously powerful change or, at least, potential change, within the US because he and a small group of other maniacal radical leftists have laid the ideological groundwork for those changes. When new converts arrive to the movement, they are given booklets with his quotes, they see memes with his quotes, and so on and so forth. Each of these digestible pieces of the ideological framework could not exist if the main structure had not been built many years before. The Marxists absolutely understand this, we know that because they were the first ones to write all of this stuff down! (They didn't invent it, though.)
Each time you write out a post that applies the principles and values of Ron Paul to current events, there are a dozen others who are able to read and understand what you have written and many of them may have not looked at that particular issue from that particular angle before. This helps reinforce the movement.
And unlike Marxism, the liberty movement doesn't need a secret "inner agenda" because we are not selling a package of lies which are secretly designed to decimate the global population. The liberty agenda is completely superficial... what you see is what you get. That also makes it absolutely unique among political agendas.
No other agenda, not even the conservative agenda, can go toe-to-toe with the liberty agenda because every single one of them has something to hide, and we do not. There is absolutely nothing to hide in saying, "I just want you to be free to do what you want."
For this reason, each liberty proponent who takes the time to clarify the reasons for liberty is acting like a "distributed peer-to-peer" node in a global network that is converging more and more accurately on The Truth. Yes, there is capital-T Truth, which is something the Marxists have to deny (so they can keep pushing their secret mass-murder agenda). By choosing to converge on Truth, you are able to participate in this "distributed peer-to-peer network" of Truth-seekers without any central coordination. No central coordination is required because Truth
is the coordinator -- 2+2=4 in California, Texas, New York and Florida alike. Red or blue cannot change Truth. That is why liberty is
inevitable. Welcome to the side that wins no matter what!!
stop worshiping idols like Ron Paul,
Ron Paul is not an idol because he is not competing and has never competed with Jesus for attention, love and worship. He is what the traditional Church would have called an icon, father of the faith (he is a believer) or (if recognized), a saint. Such individuals act not as their own focal point (trying to create an "-ism" and personality cult focused on themselves), rather, they act as intermediary focal points that point people along the path to The Truth (Jesus). They are like those statues that people set up that point the way to a nearby city... a living road-sign if you will. "Liberty: THIS WAY. (points)"
"If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." (John 8:36) Make no mistake, the Gospel is libertarian... it is the original, undiluted libertarianism. And that is the real reason that liberty is inevitable.
who at the end of the day, didn't actual do much that was measurable. And that's not necessarily Ron's fault - that's our fault; the people's fault.
It's just not true. I understand it can feel that way. But the problem is that we have chosen the wrong ruler to measure progress. Holding political seats is the final outcome of a long process of change that has occurred many decades before. Ron Paul and others in the liberty movement have built the foundations for that change. Let's not get tired, but keep working to erect the scaffolding and start building the first floor of the tower of true freedom that will inevitably be built. So much work has already gone into it, it would be a shame to lose that to history and leave it to a future generation to restart the entire project from bare earth...
