NoPants
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This really got me mad. This guy thinks protesting and marches promote LESS democracy. He basically says we need a United States where the government controls people to keep these things from happening, because that's REAL democracy. Is he kidding, stupid or just crazy?
It goes on, and gets worse. You can read the full article here: http://www.asuwebdevil.com/issues/2008/02/04/opinions/703418
You can email this idiot at: [email protected]
Opinions: Ron Paul: a patriot or a nightmare?
by Kevin King
published on Monday, February 4, 2008
I don't just think that the Ron Paul movement is silly. I find it troubling. The fact that a far-right movement can exist on a college campus, complete with demonstrations and graffiti, is what worries me.
It means that the people who are most motivated to have their ideas heard are anti-egalitarians who flaunt their message beneath a banner of freedom. Although they're a minority, this group meets no resistance in promoting an ideology that, when executed around the globe, has been the greatest rival of democracy and resulted in the most tyrannical regimes in the past half century.
...The ideology is rock-hard and ruthlessly self-contained (and self-perpetuating). The Friedmanite insistence that poor people are too ignorant of the economy to effectively decide what ought to be done brings Paul's supporters more in line with the stubborn anti-democracy of Lenin than the florid idealism of Martin Luther King Jr. or Emma Goldman...
...I think it would be appropriate here to mention a few reasons why I personally hate Ron Paul so much. It's because I hate freedom. I really do. I hate the Constitution as well. But Ron Paul sure loves them. Boy, does he ever love freedom and the Constitution. Just ask one of his supporters. Did you know he delivered 4,000 babies? Dennis Kucinich doesn't come close...
It goes on, and gets worse. You can read the full article here: http://www.asuwebdevil.com/issues/2008/02/04/opinions/703418
You can email this idiot at: [email protected]