The problem that Ron Paul and all libertarians face in the battle of ideas is the head start the warfare/welfare state has with its government school system. By the time the "obedient workers" (think George Carlin: "They don't want a population capable of critical thinking"... "they want obedient workers") are graduated from the government high schools and colleges most cannot imagine a life of freedom; they have been conditioned to believe they are already free and the leviathan that is the U.S. government is the protector of their freedom.
I was lucky. While google searching the idea of gold stock investments in the fall of 2002 Dr. Ron Paul's name popped up in an article as a proponent of gold as a commodity money. I read some more of his speeches and from there I became interested in Austrian economics. I've read Rothbard, Mises, Hayek, Murphy, Salerno, Thornton, Garrison, Block, Hoppe, Hazlitt, Higgs, and many other great Austrian thinkers. I've read history by Woods, Raico, and DiLorenzo. I've read Dr. Paul's "The Revolution" and "End the FED". So, I've come full circle: once a young socialist precinct delegate for the McGovern campaign; later a conservative; finally, I realize that free market economies are the only path to a better life for all of human kind. Whatever time I have left on the planet I'll spend trying to get people to consider that the coercive force of the warfare/welfare state is a poor option compared to free market capitalism.
Phil
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