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Originally Posted by charlie g
Talk about naive. Just watch television for 20 minutes to see where a large portion of the populaces IQ level is. And the problem is the people who get it, as you say, don.t step up. You cant have it both ways, either "everyone gets it" and I am young and just now figuring it out, or few get it and it needs to be said.
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again... any position that assumes everyone is stupid is a dangerous one. every insane dictator thought/thinks the same thing. hitler knew the world would be better off without jews and because he was able to rationalize his view being the minority view as you are... he started ww2
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And by the way, we DO NOT have a democratic system of government, so I am not sure what you appreciate. I am glad we don't live in a democracy where the majority can trample the rights of the individual(which is the overriding principle that this country was founded on).
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uhmm... ok. not sure how this makes any sense but i assume you are going to play semantics with the word democracy and use examples out of context, where it should be clear that "democracy" in the context of these types of conversations simply means people voting for what they want vs autocracies, monarchy's, dictatorships etc.
the rights of the individual are defined by law... not someones backward idea of "i should be able to do anything i want and no one should tell me otherwise" as some people here tend to think.
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Ron Paul will probably not get elected. And you can dismiss him as a fringe cook because his view of government is different than yours and the people now in power. But everything he espouses is based on Constitutional law and the bill of rights. You may think these are fringe and cooky ideas, but without them we are no different than any other place in the world. I think it is important to try to preserve them and that is why Ron Paul will get my vote.
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1) he won't get elected.... that should be obvious to anyone with an IQ over 10.
2) i NEVER said i disagree with a lot of what he believes ... in principle... or that his view of government is different than mine.
its not the ideas that are "kooky"... its the idea that someone can just barge into washington and change the world without the help of the congress and senate as a cowboy that is "kooky" and thus, its not just about "ron paul" or what he believes in that matters. change and leadership are about broader support of people and the government.