Ron Paul is a baby elephant
From around the country, Ron Paul’s followers are descending on New Hampshire to go door-to-door for their man. But what do they really want?
By Michael Scherer
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/12/03/ron_paul/index.html
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A Web site Lyman built raised $4.2 million for Paul from more than 38,000 Americans in a single day, Nov. 5, which was chosen because it was the day Guy Fawkes, a 17th century British revolutionary, had attempted to blow up parliament with gunpowder. Until Saturday night at Murphy’s, Lyman had never met Paul, and to this day, Paul has never seen “V for Vendetta,” the 2005 cinematic thriller that familiarized Lyman with the Fawkes story. But none of that matters to either Paul or Lyman. For most of this year, Paul has effectively given up control of his campaign effort to his supporters, who organize online, through Meetup groups and Web sites like Operationlivefreeordie.com. At his own volition, Lyman is now organizing another major fundraising day, Dec. 16, a date commemorating the Boston Tea Party in 1773. “I would bet almost anything that we will beat $4.2 million,” Lyman tells me at Murphy’s. Already, he adds, 23,000 people have pledged to donate on that day.
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It seems that TECHNOLOGY has “rEVOLutionized” politics.
One can’t imagine this happening without the internet.
Three questions — all scary — come to mind: (1) What if he wins? (2) What if he doesn’t? (3) And, what if the next politician to discover the inet isn’t about freedom & liberty with peace and love?
If he wins, buy the S&P500 and the Wilshire5000 because the economy is going to have a bull market that will make every other one look tame. If the analogy of the free market is an engine delivering wealth to every one — and he’s going to remove the friction place on the economy by the excessive taxes and regulation — then get ready for a global boom that will light up the world. Nuke the department of Agriculture and the poorest folks in the world will be fed by the American Farmer. You ain’t seen productivity like this since the Mayflower folks decided to privitize the common grainery. We’ll be using the Air Force to parachute food into starving regions just to unload it.
If he loses, buy gold. There will be a revolution. All these productive folks will see the handwriting on the wall and adapt. Think the underground economy is big now. Just wait.
If the politicians figure out how to use propaganda on the inet, then this might be the “passions of democracy” that our Founding Fathers were so afraid of.
One can only hope that this old gent is the Third American Revolution. If not, I think it will be very painful when it does come. You can only sheer sheep so much before they become annoyed at you. Men always figure out when “enough is enough’!
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