chris41336
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If you can run for something and you aren't, you are letting them win.
This is heavy, but true: Dr. Paul won't be running again. He may not even be alive too much longer, as sad as it is. In many ways, he is a prophet and he is leaving the future of the movement that he started in our hands.
However, after months of this it is very clear that the only way this will happen is not by simply persuading most voting Americans to come to our side - there are people with WAY too much at stake in power to let that matter. The only way that we can really make this movement last is to us, ourselves, enter into those very positions that we sit here and deride for being "fradulent" so that we can KNOW that there is a liberty-loving (former) Paul supporter on the other end who would never let that happen.
I have posted many threads like this that have gone basically ignored, for the reason being (I think) that too many people are afraid to take that step into ACTUALLY doing something. Others simply cannot run for office, or aren't good public speakers, etc. That's fine.
But if you can run for political office, ANY political office, and you aren't doing it, then you are failing this movement and you are failing Dr. Paul. Dr. Paul keeps saying to us how excited he is the youth are getting into this message. There is a reason for that, To shift this country, you need those in power to shift as well. If none of the Paul supporters even come out to VOTE, let alone run for something, that can't happen.
I am running to be both a delegate as well as a County Committeeman for my County GOP in my home state this year. Inspired, of course, by Dr. Paul and his message. Committeemen meet three times a year, plus one meeting to help choose delegates. That is almost no time commitment, anyone can do it, AND you can run for/vote for County GOP chairman as a committeeman. These are all positions that are small, out of the public eye, yet significant and winnable.
I'm sorry for being harsh and using "failing", but frankly (and this doesn't go for all of you. You know who you are because there are alot of very politically active people on here) its time for many Paul supporters to stop simply being armchair revolutionaries and take their care for changing this country to the next level.
Then, when we control the state GOPs...then, we win.
This is heavy, but true: Dr. Paul won't be running again. He may not even be alive too much longer, as sad as it is. In many ways, he is a prophet and he is leaving the future of the movement that he started in our hands.
However, after months of this it is very clear that the only way this will happen is not by simply persuading most voting Americans to come to our side - there are people with WAY too much at stake in power to let that matter. The only way that we can really make this movement last is to us, ourselves, enter into those very positions that we sit here and deride for being "fradulent" so that we can KNOW that there is a liberty-loving (former) Paul supporter on the other end who would never let that happen.
I have posted many threads like this that have gone basically ignored, for the reason being (I think) that too many people are afraid to take that step into ACTUALLY doing something. Others simply cannot run for office, or aren't good public speakers, etc. That's fine.
But if you can run for political office, ANY political office, and you aren't doing it, then you are failing this movement and you are failing Dr. Paul. Dr. Paul keeps saying to us how excited he is the youth are getting into this message. There is a reason for that, To shift this country, you need those in power to shift as well. If none of the Paul supporters even come out to VOTE, let alone run for something, that can't happen.
I am running to be both a delegate as well as a County Committeeman for my County GOP in my home state this year. Inspired, of course, by Dr. Paul and his message. Committeemen meet three times a year, plus one meeting to help choose delegates. That is almost no time commitment, anyone can do it, AND you can run for/vote for County GOP chairman as a committeeman. These are all positions that are small, out of the public eye, yet significant and winnable.
I'm sorry for being harsh and using "failing", but frankly (and this doesn't go for all of you. You know who you are because there are alot of very politically active people on here) its time for many Paul supporters to stop simply being armchair revolutionaries and take their care for changing this country to the next level.
Then, when we control the state GOPs...then, we win.
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