Why would any progressive promote Ron Paul's worldview?

[LeftishBrit]

34. 'Pour water on the corporate fire'?

Er, no, he's not. He wants to get the government out of almost everything; get rid of virtually all regulations; cut if not abolish taxes - how would that harm corporations? He may be against corporate-controlled government; but that's because he's against government, period. (Though it doesn't stop him wanting to ban abortion!)

He's against the Federal Reserve, not because he wants to replace it (as do some progressives) with tighter, more direct government regulation, but because he wants to replace it with no regulation.


'The corporations purchased our politicians and now those politicians belong
to our corporations--who get lower taxes, deregulations, corporo-friendly policies and legislation tailored to their
every whim. '

So when there are NO taxes, NO regulations, and almost NO government to pass legislation, the corporations won't even need to purchase politicians! They can cut out the middleman, and ride roughshod over the country (and thereby, to an even greater extent than now, the world), absolutely untrammeled. It won't lead to democracy - it will lead to a jungle, where survival of the fittest (i.e. richest and most aggressive) is the only rule. If things are bad now, they'd be FAR worse under such as Paul.

This is not to say that the other Republican candidates are anything other than complete menaces, either. Santorum was on Newsnight, saying how Britain has been 'devastated' by having an NHS, because it prevented Thatcher from totally rolling back the state. And Romney accused Obama of turning America into a 'Europaean welfare state', as though that were a bad thing, apart from not being true. They are ALL vile creatures, enemies of all the things that I most value. But so far as I know, no progressives are expressing any sympathy with Santorum or Romney; some are defending Paul - who is also a monster of pure evil.