What Ron Paul Has Done For Liberty

What Ron Paul Has Done For Liberty

A friend of mine and a libertarian who I admire very much for her tenacity and the courage of her convictions recently put a question to me about Ron Paul’s political career, a question that was written to serve as a catalyst for a discussion about the most effective approach to actually create the free society we libertarians believe in. This post is my long form answer. Her question was:

“Dr. Paul has been saying the same thing for over 20 years, expecting different results…hasn’t that been defined as insanity?”

First and foremost, I would say this: If it is impossible to forge a free society by working “within the system” of partisan politics and Washington’s representative bodies, and the most effective catalyst for substantial and lasting change is to educate people about liberty, then at the very worst, Ron Paul has been by far the most effective advocate for libertarian ideas in at least a generation…

http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2011/03/what-ron-paul-has-done-for-liberty.html

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