VT_Bircher
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- Jun 17, 2010
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Hi all. I hope I'm posting this in the right place. So a long ways back I was a pretty hardcore neocon. More than a year and a half ago I got woken up to the Ron Paul movement. I guess I wasn't as firm in my beliefs as I thought I was, or just not well read enough on liberty, but I, in the past month found myself drifting back towards the neocons. I thought that the neocons couldn't be all that dangerous... oh how wrong I was...
In trying to rationalize neoconservatism, I found myself browsing around the American Enterprise Institute's website. I started seeing stuff about some book called "The Bell Curve." At first I dismissed it, thinking that it must be some fringe thing. Then I started reading about the Bradley Foundation and then it all clicked. The fact that the neocons are pedaling and funding millions into "race/intelligence" pseudoscience scared me half to death. Let's just say that as a LEGAL immigrant from South America, who loves this country, it was a little disturbing to see that the neocons believe that my race makes me genetically less intelligent...
Then I decided to go read some Ron Paul writings and I remembered exactly why I was and why I will always be a libertarian: individualism over collectivism. The Ron Paul Revolution isn't about race or any kind of group think agenda that seeks to divide America and engage in statist nonsense. I re-read "The Revolution" in a day and was reinvigerated. So I guess this is my testimony as to why I support Ron Paul: Ron Paul supporters and libertarians don't see me as anything but another patriot, regardless of ethnicity, intelligence, etc. So thank you Ron Paul people for giving me hope in a truly color blind society. To hell with the neocons.
In trying to rationalize neoconservatism, I found myself browsing around the American Enterprise Institute's website. I started seeing stuff about some book called "The Bell Curve." At first I dismissed it, thinking that it must be some fringe thing. Then I started reading about the Bradley Foundation and then it all clicked. The fact that the neocons are pedaling and funding millions into "race/intelligence" pseudoscience scared me half to death. Let's just say that as a LEGAL immigrant from South America, who loves this country, it was a little disturbing to see that the neocons believe that my race makes me genetically less intelligent...
Then I decided to go read some Ron Paul writings and I remembered exactly why I was and why I will always be a libertarian: individualism over collectivism. The Ron Paul Revolution isn't about race or any kind of group think agenda that seeks to divide America and engage in statist nonsense. I re-read "The Revolution" in a day and was reinvigerated. So I guess this is my testimony as to why I support Ron Paul: Ron Paul supporters and libertarians don't see me as anything but another patriot, regardless of ethnicity, intelligence, etc. So thank you Ron Paul people for giving me hope in a truly color blind society. To hell with the neocons.
