“Show me a truly free person, and I'll show you the man who runs the show.”
Aaaaaaa?Nick McGrath
Ron Paul was not invited to the debates in Iowa, which are hitting boring television channels everywhere on June 30. This is a shame. His Coreness is apparently too raw for Iowa. Too real.
The internet, God bless it, offers many different writers offering many different theories about why Paul wasn't invited, and if you want to, you can go do an internet search and dive into the cesspool of bullshit that surrounds Paul's absence. I'm not that kind of writer. I don't claim to be in the know and research makes me want to punt babies, so I'll just use this Friday's Core Report to tell you a little bit about why democrats and republicans both hate Ron Paul.
But first, let's talk about the United States Constitution and why it's a beautiful thing.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written because revolutionary Americans were straight-up thieves and no one trusted the founding fathers anymore than they trusted King George (or whoever was running the show in England at the time). And thus, the founding fathers had to figure out a way to craft a country that protected individual freedom. The idea was that if each person could be seen as having certain rights which could not be taken away under any circumstances, then they would fight to protect those rights and thus, protect the country as a whole. It made sense because, well, if you want to get behind an idea, you're more likely to do it if the idea makes life better for you.
And thus, for the first time in the history of mankind, a country was filled with citizens who (at least as goes the white males) were free. The government wasn't there to make us happy or to take our money. They were there to protect our freedom.
Now, that freedom didn't last. Around 1913, when the Federal Reserve was created, the government got into the business of making sure that the rich controlled all the powerful. We stopped becoming America and became Corporate America. The government got to decide what our money was worth, and soon after they got to decided who got that money. I mean, it's no coincidence that the government tells us how much we can borrow money for. This is a fact. The government controls the money supply, and as such, they control us.
Now, Ron Paul isn't likely to get elected. But, what's happening with Ole Core Hoss, is that he is getting the message of freedom out to the American people. He is presenting to the general populous the idea that the government has no business meddling in the affairs of others, other than to see that the affairs of others are protected.
It's as simple as that. It's the idea of freedom. And we need to get it back.
Now, my parents hail from Iowa. I have met many an Iowan in my life and I can tell you that they are educated people who, for the most part, understand what freedom is. They're not looking for handouts from a corrupt government that stole from them (in the form of inflation, rate manipulation and unjust wars). They just want the freedom to earn an honest buck and protect their own interests.
Ron Paul's message would have gone over like free money in Iowa. And more people would have been aware of the importance of freedom and small government's role in that importance had Paul been allowed to speak there.
So to restate, it's not Kooky Old Doctor Core who the democrats and republicans are afraid of.
It's the message of freedom that scares them.
I mean, God forbid we all wake up and start to care about our rights. I mean, it'd be like we were a free country or something.
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