I have to wonder, why we are the minority??

[Romulus]

Why is it that freedom loving people, who hold the Constitution in high regard are in reality the minority??

You would think that these candidates like Medina and so on, would be be pulling 30% at least!

And I'm not talking just about her.. I'm talking about in general.. Ron Paul supporters are what, 10% of the population at the most?

I just dont get it... why dont people embrace the idea of personal liberty and endorse those who do? I just can't wrap my mind around the fact that the majority of people dont support the ideology of freedom.

Anyone shed some light on the reasons why?

 

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

over a century of snake oil politics and propaganda. in a word....

fear.

 

[fisharmor]

Public education.
If we could eliminate just the laws dealing with public schools - not even the schools themselves, just the laws - we could have our country back in 20 years.
If we got rid of the schools too, it would be more like 10.

 

[Gaius1981]

Because anyone who don't conform to at least 99% of your political positions is branded as a neocon or a mindless slave of the state. Also, the majority of you are so paranoid that they don't trust that anyone can reform themselves.

 

[Southron]

Public education.
If we could eliminate just the laws dealing with public schools - not even the schools themselves, just the laws - we could have our country back in 20 years.
If we got rid of the schools too, it would be more like 10.

Yes but I prefer to call them the gubmint indoctrination camps.

Seriously folks, please homeschool your children.

 

[Dreamofunity]

Cheap credit.

 

[pacelli]

Why is it that freedom loving people, who hold the Constitution in high regard are in reality the minority??

You would think that these candidates like Medina and so on, would be be pulling 30% at least!

And I'm not talking just about her.. I'm talking about in general.. Ron Paul supporters are what, 10% of the population at the most?

I just dont get it... why dont people embrace the idea of personal liberty and endorse those who do? I just can't wrap my mind around the fact that the majority of people dont support the ideology of freedom.

Anyone shed some light on the reasons why?

You're looking at a statistic that was sampled by a polling corporation such as Rasmussen reports. They get paid to SAMPLE. So they give a sample. Look at how many total people were actually SAMPLED in that poll. It isn't like they went out and personally asked every single resident of Texas who they were voting for-- so don't let their statistics pull you into a feeling of political hopelessness.

Lots of people are on the internet now, and you know how Ron Paul won all of those online polls during the campaign with 70% or more? How about the FauxNews text poll, the one where each phone number was only permitted 1 vote? They slipped up on that one.

10% my ass.

 

[Original_Intent]

quite simply the people perfer security to liberty.

The average person would much rather be a slave (so long as they are kept comfortable and have some "guarantees" of a safety net) than to take personal responsibility and live freely.

And as has been stated above - much of that mindset has been pounded into them via publik edjukashun.

 

[SelfTaught]

Most people think that what politicians do IS constitutional.

So most people do respect the constitution........they just have no idea what it means.

 

[Reason]

Education fail.

&

Knowledge doesn't acquire itself, you have to work for it.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Why is it that freedom loving people, who hold the Constitution in high regard are in reality the minority??

You would think that these candidates like Medina and so on, would be be pulling 30% at least!

And I'm not talking just about her.. I'm talking about in general.. Ron Paul supporters are what, 10% of the population at the most?

I just dont get it... why dont people embrace the idea of personal liberty and endorse those who do? I just can't wrap my mind around the fact that the majority of people dont support the ideology of freedom.

Anyone shed some light on the reasons why?

I'm not a Constitutionalist, but I can tell you why RP supporters, libertarians, etc, are in the minority IMO-those of our political/philosophical persuasion tend to use a rational ethos and logos, which flies in the face of the prevailing understanding of how the world "should" work. Indeed, generations of welfarism/warfarism have made the majority of people morally and intellectually weak. Inferior intellects will always use insults against enlightened types-they believe they are protecting "their" status quo.

Freedom is indeed scary to people who are unprepared for it. From my conversations with left libs and mainstream conservatives, I gather that they have a codependent relationship with the State. This is a very emotional, irrational position, and this causes them to lash out at the liberty movement. They are quite emotionally and intellectually under-developed.

 

[torchbearer]

we eat our own. its hard to grow when you do that.

 

[Mach]

It just seems like people ride on emotions, especially the emotions they are fed by politicians, than real fact.

 

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

If it is the Truth that sets us free, then liberty isn't the ideology

Why is it that freedom loving people, who hold the Constitution in high regard are in reality the minority??

You would think that these candidates like Medina and so on, would be be pulling 30% at least!

And I'm not talking just about her.. I'm talking about in general.. Ron Paul supporters are what, 10% of the population at the most?

I just dont get it... why dont people embrace the idea of personal liberty and endorse those who do? I just can't wrap my mind around the fact that the majority of people dont support the ideology of freedom.

Anyone shed some light on the reasons why?

Our Founding Fathers didn't establish our nation on a political ideology, but on a natural law. That natural law declared a self-evident and unalienable Truth as in we don't need experts explaining it to us and as in it is unalienable to the extent that it reduces down beyond the human mind to be perceived by the soul (the human conscience or many might say the heart).
As I've often said in this room, liberty for the sake of liberty is no better than slavery. Liberty, equality and the like, are just prerequisites necessary for our contentment.
Civil Purpose was the goal of our Founding Fathers and not the legal precedents of tyranny as they didn't design a government for the sake of a government; rather, they designed a "more perfect government" (a necessary tyranny) to serve the people.

 

[marc1888]

I think its very simple. To be a lover of liberty you have to be willing to actually think for yourself a little. We live in a society where everything is prepackaged how we like it from our cereal to our news to our political parties. Everything is kept simple and quick so folks can identify, put themselves in the appropriate box and then regurgitate verbatim what is fed to them.

No thought and very little effort is required and that is how our dumbed down populace like it. When i first started working in politics people told me in an election year you dont want to do to much until after labor day as most folks attention span is very short. I scoffed and thought that was nonsense. Turns out it is mostly true

 

[MelissaWV]

quite simply the people perfer security to liberty.

The average person would much rather be a slave (so long as they are kept comfortable and have some "guarantees" of a safety net) than to take personal responsibility and live freely.

And as has been stated above - much of that mindset has been pounded into them via publik edjukashun.

This.

The question's been asked and answered more times than I can remember, and the answer that rings truest to me is simply that it's far easier to have Government do a lot on your behalf. Human beings need to delegate, or we'll go crazy, but some people delegate their most basic responsibilities to others. Who watches most children for the majority of their waking hours? Who teaches them? Whose morality is really being instilled? Who decides whether you're going to get chemotherapy, or be allowed to just die on your own terms? Who owns most of the homes? Who owns the cars? Who knocks on the boundaries of our privacy and demands to be let in, all in the name of safety?

 

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

The prostituted are too busy and too weary and perplexed to be logical

I think its very simple. To be a lover of liberty you have to be willing to actually think for yourself a little. We live in a society where everything is prepackaged how we like it from our cereal to our news to our political parties. Everything is kept simple and quick so folks can identify, put themselves in the appropriate box and then regurgitate verbatim what is fed to them.

No thought and very little effort is required and that is how our dumbed down populace like it. When i first started working in politics people told me in an election year you dont want to do to much until after labor day as most folks attention span is very short. I scoffed and thought that was nonsense. Turns out it is mostly true

The subserviant have always been this way. Still, as we are born natural tyrants, we have to learn how to be subserviant.

 

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Yes, consevatives banty about liberty as the liberals banty about equality

It just seems like people ride on emotions, especially the emotions they are fed by politicians, than real fact.

But liberty for the sake of liberty is no better than slavery; and, equality for the sake of equality is no better than inequality. The goal of our Founding Fathers was to establish the Civil Purpose of the people above the legal precedence of tyranny. Our Civil Purpose established grounds for our divorce from tyranny in The Declaration of Independence just as it established grounds for our new marriage to a "more perfect government" (necessary tyranny) in The U.S. Constitution.

 

[Working Poor]

I wrote at newsvine about "give me liberty or give me death" and one of the people thought I was threatening to commit suicide. It really blew me away. She tried to have me banned for saying it. People's minds have been thoroughly twisted. A lot of people don't understand what they read so they have to let the MSM tell them what to think.

Conservatives are called stupid at newsvine. I keep writing there anyway because a few people are starting to understand what I am saying the ones who understand what they read.

 

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

"do" a lot on your behalf

This.

The question's been asked and answered more times than I can remember, and the answer that rings truest to me is simply that it's far easier to have Government do a lot on your behalf. Human beings need to delegate, or we'll go crazy, but some people delegate their most basic responsibilities to others. Who watches most children for the majority of their waking hours? Who teaches them? Whose morality is really being instilled? Who decides whether you're going to get chemotherapy, or be allowed to just die on your own terms? Who owns most of the homes? Who owns the cars? Who knocks on the boundaries of our privacy and demands to be let in, all in the name of safety?

Christ just left the distraught people rest where they stood before He fed them. As His disciples ordered the multitudes to go home and be responsible, doing whatever tasks that were necessary to care for themselves, Jesus understood that if they left Him to do so they would never be back. So, Christ had them recline restfully (like the rich) where they stood.
This is the solution! If the people are living under a bridge, then let them live there. They own the thing for cripes sake! When the king owned the bridge, as well as all property both public and private, he could sleep under it if he deemed to do so. So, the people should be tolerated if they deem to do so.