RE: I'm leaving Ron Paul land
February 11, 2016 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2016 at 1:58 pm by CapnAwesome.)
As to Ron Paul, when he ran in 2008, I was in College and a die hard. I donated to his campaign and attended a private rally and met him. I had about a 30 second conversation about the Draft, he seemed disappointed that I had registered for the draft and was encouraging people not to.
Anyway, as I got older I started to focus my skeptical lens on my own beliefs and a lot of that hard core libertarian stuff fell away. The gold standard, abolishing the federal reserve, privatization of everything, no regulation, etc etc. It just doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Libertarians try to squeeze every idea into their libertarian mold, but some things just don't fit and don't make sense. I see a lot of people today do this with Bernie Sanders too. It's fine to support him, but use your skepticism to examine your own ideas as well. If you don't, what's the point of being skeptical?
Anyway, as I got older I started to focus my skeptical lens on my own beliefs and a lot of that hard core libertarian stuff fell away. The gold standard, abolishing the federal reserve, privatization of everything, no regulation, etc etc. It just doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Libertarians try to squeeze every idea into their libertarian mold, but some things just don't fit and don't make sense. I see a lot of people today do this with Bernie Sanders too. It's fine to support him, but use your skepticism to examine your own ideas as well. If you don't, what's the point of being skeptical?
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