Cult ALERT; Paul Supporters May Kill Selves, Kids
College kids (a key bloc of Paul’s support) have seen no recent evidence that the GOP has anything to do with libertarianism. Yet there’s no reason to believe that Democrats will do anything useful about the government intrusion that so many young people abhor: the drug war, federal bans on same-sex marriage, online poker prohibitions, open-ended deployments in Iraq..{…}.This is the mile-wide gap in the Maginot line of “serious” Washington politics. Undergrads aren’t the only ones weary of war and moralizing, and more interested in exploring new frontiers of technology and culture than in heeding the stale noise coming from inside the Beltway.
More than at any other time over the past two decades, Americans are hungering for the politics and freewheeling fun of libertarianism. And with the dreary prospect of a Giuliani vs. Clinton death match in 2008, that hunger is likely to grow even faster than the size of the federal government or the casualty toll in Iraq. Ron Paul may lose next year’s battle — though not without a memorable fight — but the laissez-faire agitators he has helped energize will find themselves at the leading edge of American politics and culture for years to come.
Comment by Eric the .5b —
November 24, 2007 @ 7:05 pm
It’s a great indicator of which bloggers have utterly given up on calling themselves some shade of “libertarian”, or of having a libertarian audience.
Comment by mds —
November 24, 2007 @ 7:19 pm
Well, no one’s yet explained Dr. Paul’s contributions to the Dixie Daily News, and the UN world gubmint probably isn’t really out to get us, and his immigration views make zombie von Mises unquiet indeed, and his anti-federalist absolutism should make any genuine civil libertarian choke, but… Tim LaHaye of Left Behind fame has just recently endorsed Mike Huckabee. So Paul ‘08! Better him than a[nother?] corrupt statist theocrat with delusions of provoking Apocalypse*. ‘Cause there’s a genuinely destructive cult that we really can’t afford.
*The end of the world one, not En Sabah Nur the butt-ugly immortal mutant.
Comment by Mona —
November 24, 2007 @ 7:47 pm
I have an affiliation with a small, Midwestern town library. LaHaye — Tim and Beverley, plus all writings Dobson — are always ordered and on long reserve lists. Including all that Left Behind nonsense. The DVD collection includes any number of R-rated movies with relatively steamy hetero-sex. But the library board would not accept even a *donation* of Brokeback Mountain, for fear it would be “controversial.”
But Ron Paul’s ideas represent a dangerous cult.
Comment by TGGP —
November 24, 2007 @ 8:39 pm
I’m an anti-federalist (I support the decentralist principle of federalism but think the Articles of Confederation was better than the Constitution), but Ron Paul is not. He is dedicated to the Constitution, which was foisted on us by those dastardly Federalists.
Comment by mds —
November 24, 2007 @ 8:49 pm
Oh, if only they’d include that Christian sex manual the LaHayes put out (sorry) in the 1970’s. Alas. We run into the same thing in the nearest suburban library in… hm, in the interests of anonymity, let’s call it, “northeastern state nominally represented by Senator Bo Warmonger.” They’ve even made sure to get the latest Left Behind prequels, with the sinister gay conspiracy (WoooOOOooo!). Just thinking about it makes me long for a good old-fashioned argument about bimetallism.
Yeah, he might be out to inadvertently destroy the economy by messing up the money supply and the free market in currency exchange, but at least he’s not trying to force Jesus to hurry up and destroy the Jews, followed by the planet. (It worries me that the USAF brass are riddled with LaHaye cultists, rather than Paul cultists.)
Comment by Mike P —
November 24, 2007 @ 10:05 pm
I’m on a private email list where the sole neocon…
Gleen Grunwald(and friends) actually allowed a “neocon” on “Townhouse 2″?
Comment by Karen —
November 24, 2007 @ 10:06 pm
Oh, I have totally been waiting for an opportunity to introduce the Offerings to Left Behind Fridays!. The rest of the week Slacktivist is okay — the commenters are always a blast — but LB Fridays are a highlight of the week. Next week we start Tribulation Force. Mark your calendars!
Comment by Mona —
November 24, 2007 @ 10:28 pm
The private list I allude to is one for non-theists, like me, who have suffered severe trauma. In my case, I lost a son and brother to gruesome deaths in a short space of time, as well as other simultaneous devastating events, and nearly lost my mind. Non-theists tend to be political, so we broke off into a sub-list for politics to keep the support list dedicated to, well, support.
Piss off.
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