January 21, 2012
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Why the Establishment Hates Change and Fears Ron Paul

Barack Obama ran for president in 2008 on a simple but deceptive message of hope and change. What his campaign lacked in substance it made up for in style. In that way, the idea of hope and the promise of change were not concrete proposals by candidate Obama, but façades propped up to allow voters to graft onto candidate Obama their own hopes and aspirations.

So the anti-war youth voted for candidate Obama expecting an anti-war president. The militant left voted for Obama expecting a president who would take from the rich and give to the poor. Independants voted for candidate Obama expecting a post-partisanship presidency. Even Libertarians voted for candidate Obama expecting a president who would defend personal freedoms. Needless to say, President Obama did not fulfil the promises of candidate Obama.

Why? Because each Obama supporter had his own unique idea of what candidate Obama’s message of hope and change actually meant. And since candidate Obama’s message was murky and malleable, there was hope that each supporters personal idea of change would be implemented. The campaign was a brilliant fraud.

When Americans voted Barack Obama into office in 2008, they did not vote for massive change. They voted for a message tailored to make them think that they were voting for exactly the change that each voter wanted. If Barack Obama had run an intellectually honest campaign on substantive changes and reform, he wouldn’t have won. For the same reason that because Ron Paul is campaigning on substantive change and profound reform [just as he did four years ago], the establishment says he can’t win [just as they did four years ago].

Barack Obama won over the Clinton machine and the Democratic establishment embraced him, because Barack Obama never really represented a threat to the establishment. Three years into his fight whatever war he wants, kill whatever American he wants, give away whatever cash he wants, regulate whatever behaviour he wants regime, we know that Barack Obama represents business as usual for the establishment.

Compare that to Ron Paul. The only danger Ron Paul represents is to the establishment that fears its own loss of power. It has taken nearly 250 years to stray as far from founding principles as we have. We’ve drifted so far, drowned so deep in debt, lost so many of our rights, fought so many fruitless wars that if we don’t rock the boat now, we may end up sinking with it.

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— -judge andrew napolitano (via scatteredaesthetics)

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