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In reply to the discussion: An #Occupier said something interesting about Ron Paul... [View all]Aerows
(39,961 posts)The anger over the bank bailouts and no prosecutions, the trampling of our Constitutional rights - they are getting to people that are ordinarily rational.
The fact that there are so many talking about Ron Paul should tell the people in Congress and those in the White House and the 1% that business [bi] cannot continue as it has been.[/bi] It can't. The people are not going to put up with it anymore, regardless of their political affiliation.
Do I agree with Ron Paul? Not on most things, but on a few things he is absolutely right. The things he is wrong on overshadow the things he is right on, but it's enough to send most people over the edge since we are still doing business as usual.
I'm a Democratic party member. I will vote for Obama because I hate the alternative, but candidly, I wouldn't weep bitter tears if Ron Paul won unless he took up his more radical "fuck the poor" agenda (which I suspect he would, so that ends that delusion).
The problem is that we are picking between right wing and right wing-lite. No one seems to get the message that it's time to veer to the left before we drive off the cliff.