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Benjamin Sapiens a year agoRon Paul is a very strange combination of pure brilliant awesomeness and kooky, wackjob absurdity. (Admittedly, even at his most ridiculous he’s far better than many other politicians, but that doesn’t make some of his beliefs any less atrocious.) Let’s remember that not all of his positions are based on common sense or a respect for liberty … What’s wrong with Ron Paul? • He doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state.
• He believes abortion, and even the morning-after pill, should be illegal.
• He’s a creationist who doesn’t believe in evolution.
• While he doesn’t support a federal ban on gay marriage, he also doesn’t support a federal law legalizing gay marriage. Some see this as a states’ rights issue, and this is how he frames it, but he does support other federal legalization movements (drugs, for example).
• His newsletter spouted horrible racist content for twenty years. He denies writing any of it, but if he allowed this content to go out under his name, he either approved it or was so ignorant of both the type of people he associates with and the type of content going under his name that he shouldn’t be trusted to run anything.
• He believes in reinstating the gold standard, which most economists believe was one of the major causes of several financial crises during the early part of the 20th Century, including the Great Depression.
• He believes in laisez-faire capitalism.
• He is a frequent guest on the Alex Jones Show, a radio program hosted by government-hating right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
• He would have voted against the Civil Rights Act. (based on this post by Stevie McFly)
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- jameslas Ron Paul is a very strange combinatio... and thinks it’s Win & OMG
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luno a year ago-He doesn’t believe in Pell grants.
-He thinks Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, income taxes (and everything else) is unconstitutional.
-He probably signed off on those newsletters after all.
-“[The Copenhagen treaty on climate change] can’t help the economy. It has to hurt the economy and it can’t possibly help the environment because they’re totally off track on that. It might turn out to be one of the biggest hoaxes of all history, this whole global warming terrorism that they’ve been using, but we’ll have to just wait and see, but it cannot be helpful. It’s going to hurt everybody.”
-He’s a straightup crackpot.
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