Steve Wolfer writes: Both Paul and Cruz are not only willing to take very bold actions, but they know that nothing else will do. And they don't care about what the GOP establishment thinks. I'd be happy to support either of them compared to a Hillary or a Jeb Bush or a Christie. Because the GOP establishment and the main-stream media is against both of them, they are taking their message straight to the people. Win or lose, that is the way it should be.
I agree. Ron Paul and Ted Cruz seem like Barry Goldwater in 1964. Even if they lose the battle they may win the war, via paving the way for a new and better version of Ronald Reagan to win shortly down the line. I genuinely believe Amerca is currently -- if very vaguely and weakly -- heading toward libertarianism. For all the awfulness of George Bush and Barack Obama, we really did have a recent quasi-libertarian in Bill Clinton. I think a superior one is now coming. Recently, of course, America experienced the Big Brother awfulness and fascism/socialism of Sarbanes-Oxley (2002), stunning NSA spying (2002 to present), all those bailouts and stimuluses (2009), Dodd-Frank (2010), ObamaCare (2010), amd executive amnesty for 4-5 million illegal aliens (2015). It's a simply horrific recent welfare-statist rollcall. Still...Randian philosophy continues to make progress, as does open support for capitalism and libertarianism. Free-market think tanks are everywhere. So there seems to be solid hope. But politicos like Paul and Cruz are evidently way ahead of the general public and voters. So they have to be rather deceptive and slick -- and hide just how pro-freedom they really are -- in order to get elected, in my humble view. Can these heroes really educate and uplift the dull, slovenly, indifferent, mean-spirited masses during their very campaigns? In part I think they have to. But I also think they're a coming and soon-to-be established force. I think America will elect a semi-libertarian even better than Goldwater or Reagan within the next dozen years or so. (Edited by Kyrel Zantonavitch on 3/26, 12:04am)
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