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Originally Posted by Willravel
Ron Paul's out of his depth when it comes to the role of government in the 21st century. He'd have made a fascinating anti-Federalist in the late 17th century, but today he's living in a quasi-free-market fantasy world that's completely disconnected from reality. I'd like nothing more than to take a trip with him to the social democracies of Europe to see what civilization can be when you understand that mixed is the only system that stands a chance in hell of working well.
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the first thing i'd like you to show me is where the constitution defines its limited powers given to the government to conform to the changing of the times by the majority mindset and why haven't we followed it.......
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Still, I'd much rather have the Libertarians to contend with than the Conservative party. Libertarians I can get along with after we agree to disagree, Conservatives (meaning uber far-right neocons, radical fundamentalist religious zealots, unabashed corporatists and brain dead anti-leftists). I'd take the Ron Paul conservatives any day if given a choice. What I'm hoping is that this tear provides an opportunity for moderate conservatives to finally find a voice and take conservatism back to where it was under Ike.
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in other words, what you want to see is 'conservatism' be quashed outright so we can all be more progressively centrist and there would be no more ideological battles......because you know whats best for people?
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