We set up a booth at the local farmers market and was approached by a gentleman who told me that he was a democrat but found some of Ron Paul's rhetoric appealing. He said that while he may agree with him, he would never vote for him because he has no chance "in hell" of winning and it is a vote wasted. I said "so your willing to compromise your conscience to vote for the lesser of evils" which made him get amplified. Maybe not the right thing to say but I tend to be an intense debater. He then preceded to try to convince me that he is making the moral decision by voting the lesser of evils because he may have an effect on certain principles that he valued while mine is being thrown away. With every one of those principles there was a sort of socialist mind state to which I responded with a typical Ron Paul response and ended it with your wiling to give way to much power to people we agree you can't trust. He then eventually came back sort of irritated with "man, everybody is corrupt in one way or another. You are fighting a system that you can't win. The best you can do is just play along and hope for the best. What makes you think that all this work your doing is going to pay off and not just be a waste of time and energy". I looked him right in the eye and said, "they may win". "They may force my kids to fight wars for their corporations. They may take every cent I have and spend it killing everybody in the world they want to kill but... God damn it will be over my dead body". He was taken back by my intensity and then set their thinking for a several seconds, then chuckled and said "damn, you changed my mind". The week after he dropped by the booth and said he sent a donation in to Ron's campaign and to keep up the good work.
I will tell you that I spent a lot of time trying to convince people to believe in Ron. I had way too many failures but it was those few sweet successes that made it worth it. Most of the time I sat with other supporters debating. lol. Still had fun otherwise.
