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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think the guy has tapped into a real wellspring of strong support, but that some of those strong supporters are loons, and that there just aren't enough of them to have a political impact. Since libertarians have been taken for granted by the GOP for a long time, it's nice to see them wake up and smell the coffee, but there aren't enough of them for it to matter that much. I'm not unsympathetic to some of what Paul says.
I don't doubt that there are people who feel the way you do, but they are too few, poorly organized, or easily distracted by talk of terrorism and torture for it to lead to much of anything.
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Personally, I tend to find that if you poke them, most libertarians are just greedy motherfuckers whose sole political philosophy is "I got mine, I'm keeping it."
The real root of the problem is the damned communist Supreme Court back in the New Deal days. If they'd just upheld the right of children to work, we wouldn't have all this folderol about taxes to pay for so-called "education" today.
