What’s not to like about Ron Paul?
- His racism.
- His horrible economic plan.
- His awful views on civil liberties.
Let me add to that:
• He doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state.
• He believes abortion should be illegal.
• He doesn’t support the repeal of DOMA and didn’t support the repeal of DADT.
• He doesn’t support putting more money into inner-city schools, but does support vouchers for religious schools.
• He believes creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools.
• He doesn’t believe HIV causes AIDS.
• While he doesn’t support a federal ban on gay marriage, he also doesn’t support a federal law legalizing gay marriage. Some see this as a states’ rights issue, and this is how he frames it, but he does support other federal legalization movements (drugs, for example).
• His newsletter spouted horrible racist content for twenty years.
• He believes in reinstating the gold standard, which most economists believe was one of the major causes of several financial crises during the early part of the 20th Century, including the Great Depression.
• He believes in free market Capitalism.
• He wants to get rid of Affirmative Action.
This picture of him makes me laugh.
I have a few reasons I’d like to contribute…
- He voted to ban same-sex couples from adopting children (in DC)
- He wants to eliminate the department of education
- He is against raising taxes on the 1%
- He wants to get rid of income tax all together
- He wants to deregulate Wall St.
- He thinks climate change is a hoax
- He is against the EPA- even after the Gulf Oil spill of 2010 he was advocating deregulating big business and oil companies
- He wants to repeal The Affordable Healthcare Act
- He would do away with medicaid, medicare, food stamps, welfare, and social security.
- He was against the Civil Rights Act & the Americans with Disabilities Act
- He has been in government for about 14 years and has only gotten ONE of his bills passed (out of 464)
- He is against increasing airport security, proposing that instead we just give pilots guns (no joke).
- Against the Auto-Industry restructuring which saved 2 million jobs and put our car industry back on top
- He supports a state’s right to imprison people for having consensual anal sex in the privacy of their bedrooms
I’d feel better about this post if there were articles linked.
Alright, I wanted to post this anyway because it’s pretty important to get this out anywhere on the Internet. (Also I’ve been reading tons of accounts by 20-somethings who were libertarians up through their adolescence until they really considered the world/grew some empathy and became liberals.)
Ron Paul wants to define life as starting at conception, build a fence along the US-Mexico border, prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the like (a bill which he has repeatedly re-introduced), pull out of the UN, disband NATO, end birthright citizenship, deny federal funding to any organisation which “which presents male or female homosexuality as an acceptable alternative life style or which suggest that it can be an acceptable life style” along with destroying public education and social security, and abolish the Federal Reserve in order to put America back on the gold standard. He was also the sole vote against divesting US federal government investments in corporations doing business with the genocidal government of the Sudan. Oh, and he believes that the Left is waging a war on religion and Christmas, he’s against gay marriage, is against the popular vote, opposes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, wants the estate tax repealed, is STILL making racist remarks, believes that the Panama Canal should be the property of the United States, and believes in New World Order conspiracy theories, not to mention his belief that the International Baccalaureate program is UN mind control..
B-B-BUT
HE SUPPORTS WEED, YOU GUYS
Reblogging so people will never again question why I fucking despise Ron Paul.
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So wait what exactly is his appeal to the younger voting population?
(via wheneverthemoodstrikes)

