Dear Ron Paul Supporters

[Douglas Carpenter]

61. I can understand how a young person could be taken in by Ron Paul

Anyone under the age of 43 was not alive the last time there was a liberal President in the White House. Anyone under the age of 39 was not alive when the Democratic Party last nominated a progressive candidate. Thus the whole liberal/progressive message has been so pushed outside the mainstream - it is a wonder that there are any liberals and progressives left. Ron Paul is interesting to listen to. He is in a sense visionary and even somewhat utopian. Some of his ideas do make sense and where he does make sense - he makes more sense than the leadership of either major party. But his assumptions about how government is the fault for all of social ills - is reactionary beyond reactionary levels. His policies would ultimately create a raw law of the jungle beyond the current depraved levels that are the natural consequences of a society where the liberal class is all but dead. A false idealism can be more appealing than no idealism at all.