So what happens to RPF

[heavenlyboy34]

Same here. The GOP is an extension of the MIC which leaves liberty SOL.

+rep Both major parties were bought and paid for generations ago.

 

[TheTexan]

+rep Both major parties were bought and paid for generations ago.

Huh. I guess that's where they get the money to give out the free stuff.

 

[Cleaner44]

I was thinking we could bronze the RPF.

I also think Hilary is going to have a fit in a week when she feels the Bern.

I also think we need to give Rand, Justin and Thomas some more help.

I also think we need to make sure that Walter Jones wins.

I also think The Sound of Music is a cool movie.

I also think Clutchy Hopkins is a mad genius of the Fender Rhodes.

I think the RPF will probably become a cooking forum... or maybe sex education forum... or a possibly a muscle car forum.

I like eggs...

 

[sparebulb]

This is what RPF should have turned into...

if only George Noory hadn't beat us to it

 

[trey4sports]

I love this place. the news, the unique and insightful people (as well as the crazies). I will still use this site as my main political hub. I would advise redirecting to the domain libertyforest rather than ronpaulforums or randpaulforums. I think we probably need to branch out a bit and brand ourselves as the liberty movement rather than the paul movement. We have had incredible leaders in Ron and Rand Paul, however, I think the time has come that in presidential politics we need someone new and fresh. Someone who is braggadocios and entertaining. Someone who can appeal to, and entertain boobus and the average American. The Pauls are a thinking mans candidate and unfortunately there are not a lot of people willing to really think these days.

 

[Cabal]

Same here. The GOP is an extension of the MIC which leaves liberty SOL.

The political process and the electoral system are both mechanisms of the State. Unsurprisingly, it thus makes perfect sense that they are so wholly inefficient and inadequate when it comes to affecting any semblance of real, meaningful, sustained change to the benefit of liberty--liberty being the antithesis of the State.

Liberty isn't SOL, it was just never going to be achieved by conforming to the State, but rather in defiance of the State.

 

[Dianne]

Look, we have been here since Ron Paul ran in 2007. We will stay here until the government takes down the power grids. There is more to liberty than a Presidential election. In-fact, a Presidential election has nothing to do with liberty.

This forum needs to work on local, state, senatorial candidates and issues. The movement is the grassroots, from bottom to top; not the other way around.

 

[fr33]

I wouldn't want the forum to change but I also don't come here much anymore and wish there were more forums like this one(I hate social media) that don't revolve around the Pauls. I don't think it's good for the liberty movement for so many people keep expecting the Pauls to be leaders.

 

[Bryan]

To be sure, we're not going anywhere. I very well understand the issues, both pros and cons of sticking with the Ron Paul branding. There isn't a perfect solution but certainly more can be done. I hadn't wanted to rock the boat with Rand's campaign in gear but as that is now sunk the situation has changed.

Some things to be sure on...
- While there is certainly a lot of people who like Facebook, they're welcome to it. It's a horrible anti-privacy and safety disaster and very problematic to organize well. We won't bow out to the likes of them.
- The site will always support the key liberty principles that we have in our carefully crafted Mission Statement. If you're not sure on that, see the "Mission" button.
- The cause of liberty is of extreme importance and a lifelong effort, let's plan for a marathon, not hope for a sprint.
- There are lots of different ideas on how to best promote liberty, some good ones are posted here. We support all of them and hope to see the best ones thrive. We can't say what will or won't work.

I'll be posting more soon, but there is still some retrospective that is needed on Rand's campaign that should be a priority.

 

[sam1952]

This is actually a easy question for me.

Ron Paul is the greatest statesmen of modern times...

I would hope things just remain as they are.

 

[Occam's Banana]

I still see a long road of shit-spewing over Trump and Cruz, who both have supporters on this website, before we fade into obscurity and I find another website to post terrible opinions on.

The door is thataway, bub -----------------> ihatebacon.com

 

[TheNewYorker]

I would suggest the forum lose the name RonPaulForums and go with something more generic and liberty oriented, maybe LibertyForest.com?

That way we can attract a lot more liberty leaning people and build up a major coalition across America, and influence elections one by one.

As it is now, the only people finding this site are Ron Paul fans. We need to make it so fans of liberty in general can find and join.

 

[H. E. Panqui]

danno writes: "Liberty" means different things to different people. There are progressives who actually believe that our brand of liberty, real liberty, is fascism because we don't want to let them have their welfare state and opportunity to get single payer health insurance. They want the "liberty" to enforce their mandates on everybody else through the democratic process.



..no, it's 'fascism' because your favorite (regressive?) politicians want to increase an already HIDEOUSLY BLOATED murderous military indu$trial budget...it's fascism (and outright stooooooooopidity) because ?your favorite politicians are frequently and mindlessly yammering about the '19 trillion dollar debt' without EVER mentioning the fraudulent nature of that LARGE portion of the debt due to banksters who acquired government bonds FOR NOTHING...

...this and MUCH more reveals ?your 'regressive' brand of 'liberty' as just more republican/crat horse pucky...

...thoroughly incomplete, myopic...

...btw, i've heard credible estimates that a bernie sanders presidency with a liberal democrat congress would result in a government that would spend 23% of GDP...whereas a rand paul presidency with an ultra-conservative congress would spend around 18% of GDP...one wonders how anyone not a goddamned fool could get all worked up about 'the big differences' between any of these bloviating republicrat posers...

 

[Mani]

Ron Paul was a unique man in politics. He's been an outstanding lone shining beacon of liberty during my lifetime which I didn't expect to ever find in a dark cesspool of power, greed, and corruption.


It was that light, that beacon of liberty that drew us all to this forum, to find out more about this man, that brought us together. And I for one hope the name never changes. Even after his time in Washington being done, I want his beacon of liberty to still continue to shine and this forum is one of those places it still does. And long after Ron Paul left you get to see the fruit of his efforts between this website, Senator Rand Paul, and countless other liberty minded individuals who took up positions in their local government.

This forum is an honor to him, his legacy, more importantly his message of freedom, and to the individuals he inspired who continue to take up the fight for liberty.

 

[seapilot]

I would suggest the forum lose the name RonPaulForums and go with something more generic and liberty oriented, maybe LibertyForest.com?

That way we can attract a lot more liberty leaning people and build up a major coalition across America, and influence elections one by one.

As it is now, the only people finding this site are Ron Paul fans. We need to make it so fans of liberty in general can find and join.

Could have both, linked together. That way if someone wants to know more about liberty they come here.

By the way this is the freest thinking forum on the net. One of the few places to go for sanity and logic in the current bizzaro world that is out there.

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

I will always call RonPaulForums my home...