He reminds you of a LEFT WING professor? Not only a left one but a radical left one. <Paul reminds me of a radical left wing professor who pontificates theories in the classroom and wants to enact them in pure form in the public sphere. > What does "left" mean to you?
So you think a gold standard is "radical left"? Or maybe just some wild and crazy experimental idea. Are you sure you know what is an experiment and what isn't? Gold is less of an experiment than is state run fiat money though that's hardly an experiment these days either. It has been tried for centuries.
But maybe you mean just in the matter of foreign affairs and his other ideas are not wild and crazy ideas to you.
Did you know that the USA founders were interested in avoiding those old entangling alliances? Crazy centuries-old guys, I guess, in your book.
Ron Paul does advocate cutting military expenditure, which seems like a good idea to me. $trillions on the Iraq invasion seems to have been a bit of a fizzer. Sure, it got rid of the WMDs.... oh, ooops... um.... well, it sure made it safe for democracy ... sort of... well.. not quite but at least the Iranian side took over... hmmm was that the plan? Have you checked with value for money with the families of those killed and maimed? I wonder how a poll would go on whether it was a great idea in the end.
<Paul would gut the U.S. military if he could, and in doing so would help ensure a band of pirate ships could invade New Zealand. > Oh, it's a charity organisation? We whistle them up and sic them onto anyone we take a dislike to. Do you really think a band of pirate ships could invade New Zealand? Good luck with that. China could do it, but they seem happy enough to buy agricultural products without invasion. Japan could too, but that seems unlikely. Indonesia? Well, the USA defence didn't work too well for East Timor did it? Kissinger/Nixon said "Tough luck guys". So depending on the USA seems not such a great idea.
<The real world is not a laboratory. In the real world libertarian models of the kind Paul exposes are impracticable. > Actually, you are wrong, the real world is in fact a big laboratory, with a real-time one-way experiment in progress. In that real world, libertarian ideas of the kind Ron Paul espouses, they were "exposed" centuries ago even before the constitution of the USA was drafted, have been shown for centuries to be the most successful way to run a railroad. Maybe by "exposed" you mean that they were hidden, sneakily and he has foolishly let you see the evil-doing intentions.
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