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VetteDude said: That is wrong. Ron Paul wants to RESTORE America by getting the budget under control and making trade partners and friendships with other countries instead of just randomly bombing them. He will not start any illegal wars such as Iraq or now Libya. He wants to secure the borders as well. With Romney, Obama, Santorum, etc, all we are getting is another fiscally-irresponsible president who is content to collect his paycheck and watch America crash and burn. Ron Paul has never voted for a congressional pay raise, never voted to raise taxes, didn't vote for bailouts, PATRIOT Act, or TARP. He is the only 1-faced political who says what he believes and doesn't stray from it. |
That's a good attitude, but you can't restore what ain't broken. Scratch that, America IS broken, but not in the way you think. It is supposed to have debt-driven economy, it is supposed to bomb other countries (well, at least the ones they can bomb safely). That's its sole role in the post-WW2, post-BWS world order - to serve as a global regulator through military strength, financial institutions and ideological structure, and it's been unchallenged in that for 20 years now. America is broken in another way - simply because it cannot operate as global regulator anymore, i.e. loosing its legitmation reasoning - so either America or present world order (meaning entire world as we know it) should go.
But I severly doubt America can operate somehow differently, since the problem is not in America itself, the same way the problem wasn't in Britain when it's gone as a third pillar of post-WW2 world and global power. Other two pillars were doing everything to sink the ship of Britain so to speak, and they succeeded at that. Great Britain as it used to be is no more and never will be again. This time the mess will be bigger than Suez crisis, since the US won't go peacefully.
As for your voting suggestion, well, thanks but that was a joke on my part :D I can't register anywhere since I don't have US citizenship.
