It is only the first week of April, but the American Spring is in full bloom.
You could feel it in the energy of the 7000+ people who gathered at a stadium on the UCLA campus a few nights ago to see a candidate for president who offers a radical, yet timeless vision of a society based on peaceful, voluntary interaction, rather than coercion and force. At 76, Ron Paul has become a hero to a generation of college students, and at rallies like this one you can almost see his ideas rushing forward – like his vast crowd of supporters pouring in through the stadium doors – to a philosophical tipping point that might be closer than we realize.
Not that you would know it from the Republican/Democrat establishment or the dinosaurs of the old network and cable media. Lately, their voices have been united in a call for the primary race to wrap up so we can get down to making the crucial choice between Obamacare and Romneycare. Whose version of the individual mandate will win? Can anyone really tell the difference anyway?
While most of the old media stayed away from the UCLA rally, there was at least one exception. Wandering through the crowd, perhaps bewildered by scenes that didn't fit his network's narrative of the American political climate, an unassuming man carried an oversized camera with a Fox News logo towards a cluster of trees. Suddenly, it became clear that well over a thousand people remained outside the stadium, unable to enter the 5,800 seat venue that was filled to capacity. Dozens of them had climbed into the trees with hopes of catching a glimpse of their hero, barely discernible in the distance. Clearly, this contradicted the Fox News story from the same day that declared "the Ron Paul 'revolution' has suddenly gotten very quiet."
Far from becoming "very quiet," Ron Paul has spoken before larger and larger crowds in recent weeks. The night before his UCLA appearance, he drew over 6,000 people to Cal State Chico. In Los Angeles, volunteers pack the LA Liberty Headquarters on Abbot Kinney Boulevard every day, making hundreds of calls each to potential voters. Reports are trickling out of caucus states, where battles for delegates continue to rage long after CNN and Fox went home; large numbers of Ron Paul supporters are winning election to delegate slates, putting them in position to be a powerful force in Tampa if there is a brokered convention this August.
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4 comments:
As has been the case throughout history, in every country, its the young people who bring about radical change. Ron Paul is the ONLY choice if we are to regain our freedom and our standing as a beacon to the world, instead of our current status as a bankrupt debtor nation in the last throes of decline, hated and despised by billions for our chest thumping militaristic endeavors that don't (and aren't intended to) bring "freedom or "democracy" or "security" to anyone. They merely make our bullet and bomb makers ever richer and our kids dead. The media, being controlled by those people and their other rich friends, are doing their best to marginalize Paul. Don't let them get away with it.
You all realize Romney is going to get the nomination, right?
More is decided at the convention than the nomination.
I morally am forced to vote for Paul this time around. I used to vote for the "lesser of evils" but after 58 years of that, here we are. Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result would be insane at this point.
I did and will again vote Paul this time around, because, yes, this time the only other choice is Obamaccare or Romneycsre.
It is a true shame that we are at this threshhold this yime around...
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