Ron Paul and the Self-Hating ‘Libertarians’

[heavenlyboy34]

If I'm rich and I buy tons of stock in a company - the price for everyone naturally goes up. My actions have 'affected everybody' - does this mean it's illegitimate, or aggression, etc?

Glad you would vote for him at least, though. I just don't buy the argument that because it affects everyone it's some form of aggression or illegitimate or a violation of the NAP or something. I think we can all see it's relevance to the analogy above.

Voting in a poll or 'the polls' is a suggestion, it's speech, nothing more. It may be a suggestion box for slaves, but hey - Now we're back to the whole 'nice slavemaster' (who wants to free the slaves) vs the 'brutally oppressive serial rapist slavemaster'.

No, your purchase isn't wrong just because it affects everyone-that is a natural fluctuation-like the old cliche about "a butterfly in japan flutters its wings and a windstorm occurs in the mid-atlantic" or however that goes. Even your very existence technically affects everyone because you use resources to survive. It's also voluntary. It actually benefits everyone because it maintains a good balance of supply/demand.(opportunity costs and the various laws of economics and nature will always exist and cannot be repealed) Political action, on the other hand (especially State action) is deliberate, stupid, involuntary and distorts the natural order of things (in a bad way). The good thing about a RP figure using political action is that he tends to wield it responsibly and rationally. So, I do think that an anarchist can vote in this case, justifying it as an act of self-defense against State predation and tyranny. Plus, at this time the vast majority of people in this (and most) society are not yet moral enough to handle true freedom. Sowing the seeds for that with RP is not a bad thing.

 

[Simple]

Karen Kwiatkowski

This is important to me because she is from my congressional district. Can anyone point me to her trashing Ron Paul? She appears to be a supporter.

http://lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski272.html

But there is another reason for the noticeable government and mainstream media silence on Ron Paul’s repeated success, and his ever-growing popularity. Ron Paul can win, and if he achieved the GOP nomination he would be our next president. Ron Paul can cut short what will otherwise be an eight-year term of Obama, and end what has been a frantic 12 year federal spending spree that will ultimately lead to serious default, renegotiation and writing down of major categories of debt, and an inflation-ravaged entitlement collapse at home. Gold, guns and survival skills, private security forces, underground food networks, and an explosion in decentralized alternate energies – along with a collapse of governing structures, services, and public schools in many rural or otherwise under populated areas – all this is coming. Leaders who understand how this future was constructed, leaders who engender trust and confidence, and leaders who can wisely and quickly oversee the federal retrenchment that must and will occur – such leaders are few and far between.

Ron Paul is such a leader. We see the field – it contains the sadly overwhelmed Obama, as arrogant, as fascist-friendly and as warlike as FDR, and all the strident Keynesians clawing to the microphone, calling themselves Republicans, and Ron Paul. Of all the men or women we could choose to gently deliver this country through its very difficult rebirth into a new constitutionalism, a new liberty, and a new era of prosperity – Ron Paul is the people’s choice. If the people were truly free to choose, they would choose Ron Paul. This is the idea that so terrifies the parasitical political class, and its media handmaids. They cannot bear to say his name. But you can trust that they are closely watching the Ron Paul revolution unfold across the country, as they nervously feed on the decimated and rotting carcass of a once proud Republic.

 

[acptulsa]

bobby's saying she's criticizing Reason (and with good reason), not Ron Paul.

 

[timosman]

Well, some anarchists may feel accelerationism is a faster path to anarchy. People might find themselves satisfied with a minarchist government.

First mention of accelerationism on RPF.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

ron paul's biggest weaknesses when running for office were simple as this :

Ron did not aggressively defend gun ownership,
Ron did not aggressively defend the idea of a border. Because of that, Ron Paul was viewed as weak, I have to admit, his ideology is great, he has great ideas...but the execution is as weak as Jefferson re-evaluating the need for a federal army to repel invasion, and having marines go after the somali pirates...Ron Paul is a great thinker,and statesman, but he isnt the type of man we need to stand up against communist leftists..because he wouldn't do it with equal force. who here is surprised to see how exposed the left has shown themselves as communists in recent years?