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by admin | January 23, 2012 · 8:00 am
2 Responses to Why I like Ron Paul
Your caveat is right on the mark. Ron Paul is a deeply nasty man. Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic has done an excellent deconstruction.
I had a positive reaction to him when he first ran for President, long ago. With one exception: he thinks abortion should be illegal, and I couldn't figure out how he squares that with libertarianism. Lately, the answer has come out. He doesn't actually believe people should be free of all government interference, just Federal interference. He thinks states should be allowed to make any laws they like. Chattel slavery, for instance.
That's interesting Calvus. Thanks for that. It sounds like he is proposing not much short of dismantling the United States then. If you take away the Fed, reduce the army and devolve most of the power to the states, there wouldn't be a heck of a lot of it left. Not being American I guess I can a bit more philosophical about that than you might.
Why I like Ron Paul -
← Why The West Rules – For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future by Ian Morris
Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire by Edward Luttwak →
by admin | January 23, 2012 · 8:00 am
2 Responses to Why I like Ron Paul
Your caveat is right on the mark. Ron Paul is a deeply nasty man. Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic has done an excellent deconstruction.
I had a positive reaction to him when he first ran for President, long ago. With one exception: he thinks abortion should be illegal, and I couldn't figure out how he squares that with liberta
rianism. Lately, the answer has come out. He doesn't actually believe people should be free of all government interference, just Federal interference. He thinks states should be allowed to make any laws they like. Chattel slavery, for instance.
That's interesting Calvus. Thanks for that. It sounds like he is proposing not much short of dismantling the United States then. If you take away the Fed, reduce the army and devolve most of the power to the states, there wouldn't be a heck of a lot of it left. Not being American I guess I can a bit more philosophical about that than you might.