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If you mark that little bubble next to anyone other than Ron Paul you are personally responsible for all future deaths of our military personal. You are also personally responsible for any future debt that future generations have to endure.
Whatever selfish reason compels you to choose anyone other than Ron Paul, be prepared to carry that weight on your shoulders for the rest of your life.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by TsukiLunar
What money would that be?
What money genuinely helps the under priveliged?
I would love to know what country we are sending it to whose government is actually taking that money and helping their people with it?
That is laughable.
Nothing in your post made a damn bit of sense.edit on 22-5-2012 by GogoVicMorrow because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by frazzle
You know Ron Paul would pull many democrats...
Makes cheating okay I suppose.
Originally posted by litterbaux
If you mark that little bubble next to anyone other than Ron Paul you are personally responsible for all future deaths of our military personal.
Whatever selfish reason compels you to choose anyone other than Ron Paul, be prepared to carry that weight on your shoulders for the rest of your life.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
If you think that is the reason he would lose you are absolutely blind.
How can you guys be in such denial?
We are talking about a guy with solid ideas, more real informed support than any candidate in decades, a huge expanding base, yet he is only on t.v. to be criticised? He is ignored most other times and given no time in debates. Voter fraud is rampant against him, including the media reporting that he has dropped out.
One thing I am absolutely certain about.. if Obama gets back in.. or Romney, in 4 years we will be saying I told you so. Without a doubt. 2013 might end up a very tough year.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
The majority does NOT want what Ron Paul is offering!
Plato, in his Republic, tells us that tyranny arises, as a rule, from democracy. Historically, this process has occurred in three quite different ways.
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The first road to totalitarian tyranny (though by no means the most frequently used) is the overthrow by force of a liberal democracy through a revolutionary movement, as a rule a party advocating tyranny but unable to win the necessary support in free elections. The stage for such violence is set if the parties represent philosophies so different as to make dialogue and compromise impossible. Clausewitz said that wars are the continuation of diplomacy by other means, and in ideologically divided nations revolutions are truly the continuation of parliamentarism with other means. The result is the absolute rule of one “party” which, having finally achieved complete control, might still call itself a party, referring to its parliamentary past, when it still was merely a part of the diet.
Democracys road to tyranny
The Wide Awakes was a paramilitary campaign organization affiliated with the Republican Party during the United States presidential election of 1860. Similar organizations affiliated with the Democratic Party were called the "Douglas Invincibles", "Young Hickories" or "Earthquakes". Southern organizations were called the "Minute Men".
Wide Awake Republicans.
The second avenue toward totalitarian tyranny is “free elections.” It can happen that a totalitarian party with great popularity gains such momentum and so many votes that it becomes legally and democratically a country’s master. This happened in Germany in 1932 when no less than 60 per cent of the electorate voted for totalitarian despotism: for every two National Socialists there was one international socialist in the form of a Marxist Communist, and another one in the form of a somewhat less Marxist Social Democrat. Under these circum stances liberal democracy was doomed, since it had no longer a majority in the Reichstag. This development could have been halted only by a military dictatorship (as envisaged by General von Schleicher who was later murdered by the Nazis) or by a restoration of the Hohenzollerns (as planned by Bruning). Yet, within the democratic and constitutional framework, the National Socialists were bound to win.
Then there is the third way in which a democracy changes into a totalitarian tyranny. The first political analyst who foresaw this hitherto-never-experienced kind of evolution was Alexis de Tocqueville. He drew an exact and frightening picture of our Provider State (wrongly called Welfare State) in the second volume of his Democracy in America, published in 1835; he spoke at length about a form of tyranny which he could only describe, but not name, because it had no historic precedent. Admittedly, it took several generations until Tocqueville’s vision became a reality.
He envisaged a democratic government in which nearly all human affairs would be regulated by a mild, “compassionate” but determined government under which the citizens would practice their pursuit of happiness as “timid animals,” losing all initiative and freedom. The Roman Emperors, he said, could direct their wrath against individuals, but control of all forms of life was out of the question under their rule. We have to add that in Tocqueville’s time the technology for such a surveillance and regulation was insufficiently developed. The computer had not been invented and thus his warnings found little echo in the past century.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
reply to post by RSF77
I know the US is not a democracy. I wasn't saying it is. I was simply stating that the majority of people don't want Ron Paul. (Most times, the majority drives the Electoral College.)
Do a search for my name and "majority rule"... You'll find I have railed against it many times.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
Maybe rather than answering as you read you answer after you have completed reading so you wouldn't have to ask so many superflous questions.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
The majority of Obama voters are just ignorant people that still think he's some kind of God or celebrity. Like you they don't know anything about him. Romney voters tried literally every single person before Romney and are only voting Romney because he's not Obama.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by frazzle
Yeah.. He definitely has. I was a Democrat from the time I could vote until last year.
I know about 10 other people that switched the same.