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In reply to the discussion: An #Occupier said something interesting about Ron Paul... [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)Alex Jones put out a call for them to go to keep the young people of OWS from 'falling prey to liberals and socialists and turning against capitalism.'
When you scrape the rhetoric off what they're asking for it's no different than the Koch brothers. They regard unregulated, free market capitalism as next to godliness. Jones called out the troops for Frank Luntz, and the GOP worried Americans might lose their only true religion, capitalism.
When you strip away their talk against banksters, their true gods remain gold, guns and Reagan. Their libertarian cult hero is the shiny face for Ayn Rand and the end result of Ron Paul's policies coming into effect is fascism.
They seek to skim off those who don't know them. They started up in the Bush era, but he's the only Republican they don't like. They are a cult who were co-opted a long time ago, by following a man who votes GOP but tries to act like he's not one. Economically, there is no daylight between Boehner, Ryan, etc. and Paul.
Ron Paul = Reagan 2. Sadly, a generation of people have grown up in the Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly media environment and think that Reagan was a good guy, never realizing he began what the young people are fighting against now.
OWS needs to steer clear of the Ron Paulies. They don't respect the homeless, disabled or poor, just think along the lines of Ron Paul and 'let god sort it out.' In other words, they are rebranded GOP, the conspiracy cave of the Teaparty.
I'm not saying to be unkind to them as I've known a lot of them and they want things to change, just haven't thought it through. They are unwittingly in bed with some of the worst ideologues.