The inevitable Hillary will lead to President Rand Paul.

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131. I have a SERIOUS fear

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That we absolutely can see a Rand Paul presidency at some point.

People are slowly waking up to the fact that things are fucked up. There's a lot of anger out there at the "establishment". People know the whole system is broke, and that we need to do something completely different, even radical, to fix things.

Problem is, most people are completely misinformed on what the problems are thanks to the corporate media and vast right wing echo chamber.

So the question is, which philosophy/movement is going to successfully tap into that populist anger and win the day?

I really fear that it could end up being the libertarian message. "Small gov, less spending, no taxes, no job killing regulations, the poor are dragging us down" and so on sells so easily to low information voters. And its a message people have been hearing for years now. Couple that with libertarians beliefs of reducing military spending and America's footprint abroad and they could win over a lot of people.

Of course this would be disastrous, but I fear there is a dangerous leadership vacuum right now with an angry, fed up populace ready for change. If the democrats don't fill that vacuum, someone else will.