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Originally Posted by em2nought
...and they could have chosen Ron Paul. LMAO losers
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Americans are not losers, they are creatures of habit like the rest of us; and want to stick to what they know. In this case the Status quo has gotten them this far, so they dont have enough reason to belive it wont continue to do so. They will only ever change there mind if it all goes wrong very suddenly, but these things tend to unfold more like a slow motion train wreck.
Paul was just too 'out there' for mainstream America to swallow,
I very doubt he was quite the saviour as some of his supporters made him out to be - but he was still a breath of freash air compared to the other nasties in that god awful GOP line up.
(In my opinion.)
Hard to say how his policies would have turned out -especially without enough support in congress. It probably would have taken decades for him to actually do the stuff he wanted.
But in the areas of fiscal resposibility and foreign policy, he was (at least intentionally) a step in the right direction if you ask me.
What America is doing in these areas today is pretty undeniably unconsitutional and self-destructive in the long term. History proves that military empires dont last, and what usually brings them down is economics. What brings an economy down? Pretty much the very nature of the fiat currency cycle, but over borrowing, over spending and over circulating currency is pretty bad Juju.
But hey, the people voted and Ron Pauls ideology is not flavour of the decade, so thats that.
At least Paul has helped many realise that the current practices are eventually going to bite America in the ass. (as they are already nipping at its heels)
And its true that change comes from the bottom up, not top down. So I guess it will be up to the next generation to push aside the partisan rhetoric and actually fix something.