Reply #34: ron paul is capitalist for sure

[reggie the dog]

but he is not a corporatist and wants to end CORPORATE welfare, he is the kind of right wing liberals can actually be BIPARTISAN with. i think most of us liberals are against the patriot act I and II, are against the wars in afghanistan and iraq, are against corporate welfare, he wants MORE regulation of wall street,. on these issues alone the kind of conservatives that ron paul represents want the same as us liberals. of course sanders and paul will disagree about other issues and will not vote the same, but at least they are able to see that their differing political views do indeed sometimes overlap...

can you imagine how much better shape the usa would be in if someone like ron paul had been in power instead of reagan (as to say that if that kind of republican had won in 1980 (i would have rather carter won, but if we were obliged to have 8 years of republicans at least ron paul is more like 1950s republicans...

there are common points between even the tea party and the liberal movement

. nothing having to do with economics of course but

1 dislike of the patriot act
2.desire that wall street be controlled better
3. want to end the wars (not for the same reasons, many in the tea party think the wars eat up too much taxes, many liberals dislike the whole pain and human suffering aspect of war and thus dislike un necessary wars....)
4.they want jobs for working people, they say it all they time, they want to find work, people should work, indeed VOTERS on both the right and left want low or no unemployment, many of those that actually govern us seem to prefer high profits at the expense of jobs....
5. marijuana legalization (it's a freedom thing for some, a source of tax revenue for others,)

remember the tea party is built out of frustration with seeing a common american dream and way of life disintegrating before their eyes, these people cant believe how fucked their own grandkids are, are pissed off, but dont really understand why or who they should be angry at, they are angry at government as an enabler, and are angry with banks and corporations which is very good.

if we start talking about these issues perhaps we could iron out differences about things like abortion (getting people to accept that abortion exists even though they dislike it (i know i am dreaming), perhaps racism could be reduced as people saw that it isnt about color, its about the people versus the corporations and banks