I could not sleep.
A youtube video was posted by a friend about Ron Paul. A figure that I had heard about but had never given serious thought to as a candidate for President.
That time is over.
I did not get to vote for Bush in 2000. I don't know that I wouldn't have, I would probably have leaned towards Gore...but I'm not certain that it would matter.
Full disclosure, I consider myself mostly liberal. I dislike the Republican party and what it seems to stand for. Militarism, Big Buisness, Guns, and a basic Fuck You if you don't like our party, we're more American than you.
I voted for Kerry in 2004, mostly because I thought George W. Bush was an idiot puppet for the Republican party. He essentially was a guy who 'looked' like a President that they could prop up and with the right propaganda and messages could implement their own self serving policies.
In retrospect, I had no idea whether or not Kerry would not just be more of the same. I could not have cared less. The media coverage was so horribly biased to either hate or love Bush that I actually have no clue whether or not Kerry would have made a good president.
I voted for Obama in 2008, because I thought he would be different, that he would implement serious change to policy. That our presence overseas would be greatly reduced. That the unscrupulous rich would be brought to justice. That Government would, at the very least, become transparent. These are the thing I expected.
So far I have been proven wrong.
See, I grew up in the 90's. Where America seemed to have reached it's zenith of power. We were the most affluent nation. We had the best military. We had Universities and Colleges all across the land. It seemed we had everything, and nothing was really needed to change it, because let's face it...we kept winning, kept getting richer and it seemed nothing at all could stop us.
Then 9/11 happened and everything started moving in the other direction.
In all likelihood the wheels were set in motion long ago by both foreign and domestic policies by both sides of the aisle.
And perhaps we as a country had just grown so out of touch with what our reality was that we didn't want to admit the truth, because it seemed like we got so much, why should we give it back? We let our greed and selfishness blind us to our own disconnect to the values that originally made us who we are as a Nation.
And right now the truth is that our country is at the very best, managing a status quo.
We changed Presidents but the policies still remain. Bowing to lobbyists, bowing to party pressures.
We have grown our Government into a monster.
Our foreign policy is wrong. It is so wrong that the people who signed up to fight for America KNOW it's wrong.
Currently, more active troops have donated to his campaign than all other Republican candidates COMBINED, not to mention the President himself.
Our economy is wrong. Everyone, with the exception of the super rich knows it. The wealth of the country is being concentrated and not spread out, and the problem is getting worse.
Most of all, I find our leaders to be wrong. I see them as fake, shadows I'm sure of who they set out to be.
I don't think Obama is the answer. I don't believe just any republican is the answer.
I believe Ron Paul is the answer.
He is not young. But he is consistent. He is possibly what Obama could have been. But unlike Obama, he appears that he will not cower to inner party politics.
He is extremely intelligent. He appears to be the most intelligent and logical candidate for President that I have ever seen. Instead of appealing to senses of fear or hatred, he appeals to logic.
If you believe in the values that America was founded on, the ones that Thomas Jefferson wrote in our Constitution, then you owe it to watch him.
If you care that the world that you live in, the world that perhaps your children grow up in. You owe it to listen to this man.
He is not a Republican like any other.
He is not a candidate like any other.
I am not universally in line with Ron Paul. There are specific issues that I would have contention with. But by and large I agree with his policies, and I'm so tired of the status quo and the living in the fear that we are all so accustomed to.
That fear is that nothing will change.
The fear that everything and everyone in the government is corrupt and can be bought. That in the end, NONE of them have have the best interests of American citizens in mind, but rather only their own selfish needs.
I will be changing my voter registration to vote for him in the Republican Primary in Pennsylvania.
Not because I believe in the Republican party.
But because I believe in Ron Paul.
You can look at the video that sparked this piece here.
You can change YOUR voting status so that you can vote for Ron Paul in the upcoming primaries here
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