For the first time in decades, Americans had
a candidate that was running in one of the two main political parties that
would’ve actually gotten rid of many of the numerous wrong and horrible things
that is plaguing this country. He wasn’t some random third party candidate that
hardly anyone knew about. He was running as a Republican. It couldn’t have been
any easier for Americans to vote for Ron Paul for president 2012.
But
they didn’t want to.
Ron
Paul, in his bid to save America from itself, was too “extreme” for most
Americans. The similitude that comes to mind is this: picture America as a
plane, and the passengers, its citizens. The plane is steadily going down,
eventually to crash into the ground. It’s been going steadily down for a while
now, so it’s pretty close to hitting the ground. Ron Paul offers to go up to
the cockpit, and wrest control of the plane to get it back into the air. But all
the passengers stop him, and say “Don’t! You’ll shake and rattle everyone in
the plane! You agitator! You heartless extremist!”
So the plane keeps going towards the ground.
Instead, Americans choose to support:
1. Out of control spending
Both
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney had made it abundantly clear that they have no
intention of getting rid of our massive and ridiculous amount of debt. They
will both continue to spend billions of dollars on unnecessary and wasteful
“defense spending,” (which is money to run our global empire, spy on Americans,
oh, and kill a bunch of unarmed women and children. Americans apparently love
doing that, since they do it all the god-damn time.) They will spend billions
of dollars in military vehicles, weapons, and “security” training to give to
dictators, corrupt and apartheid governments, so they can stay in power by
violently suppressing their people. They will spend dozens of billions of
dollars in handouts to Americans, dozens of billions of dollars that they don’t
even have!
2. Revolving door of politicians and
businessmen
The
politicians and businessmen, (and businesswomen for that matter too,) are in
bed with each other all the fucking time, (no pun intended). Each helps the
other maintain their stranglehold on wealth and power. Politicians give
companies complete power over their workers, their work sites, the native
people they exploit in other countries, etc. In turn, companies give them
hordes of money. Many politicians started off as selfish businessmen, and
financed their campaign for office using their corporate money.
3. Defenseless border
While
both Republicans and Democrats make up foreign boogeymen overseas for us to be
scared of, the real threat is coming from this very continent. Both parties
refuse to deploy troops along our southern border with Mexico to protect the
U.S. from illegal immigrants invading this country by the millions. Democrats
won’t do it because they want to have the Hispanic vote. It’s really sad that
the Hispanic vote is directly tied to illegal immigrants, but that’s their
problem. Republicans won’t do it because that would mean taking troops away
from their maniacal overseas empire. So what do we, the American citizens, get
from this? A surging population of people who legally AREN’T EVEN ALLOWED TO BE
HERE. Some of them work, but do they pay income taxes on their income? Nope,
but you have to. But they still get access to tons of free government services,
welfare, disability checks, food stamps, education, etc. But they don’t pay a
dime. You foot the bill for yourself and them.
To
top it all off, instead of labeling these illegal immigrants as criminals,
(they broke a law,) thieves, (they’re stealing money from you and the
government,) and trespassers, (did I mention they’re not supposed to be here?)
the government is passing laws allowing them to receive financial aid for
college. California has done and Maryland is in the process of. They’re
rewarding the illegals for breaking the law, and guess who’s paying for that
financial aid? Not them, they don’t pay income taxes. That’s right, you are.
You’re going to pay for your own children’s’ college plus theirs as well. All
while the government and authorities know that they are breaking the law and
you aren’t.
4. Endless wars
Most
Americans are too ignorant to even know how many wars they’re in. When you ask,
they’ll say 1: Afghanistan. But if they actually got off their fat asses and
did a simple Google search they would see that they are in at least 12 wars! That’s
right, America is at war with:
Afghanistan
Mexico
Honduras
Morocco
Algeria
Somalia
Uganda
Yemen
Syria
Bahrain
Iran
Pakistan
And
there's even more, but these are the ones I found just during some quick
research. Both political parties are obsessed with constant, multiple wars to
devour as much power and resources throughout the world as they can. They don’t
care how many people they kill, or torture, or kidnap, or rape, or assassinate,
no, their avarice completely overwhelms them. We’re already at war with Iran,
through spying and convert sabotage and assassination operations, but the U.S.
Congress is constantly beating the war drums to formally invade the country.
Nothing is enough for them. These wars are not formally declared, objectives
are never announced, and timetables are never seen. They create a living hell
for the citizens of those countries, for years and years.
5. Destroying the Middle Class, making more
and more people into the Lower Class, while all that wealth goes to the greedy
1% Upper Class.
The
Middle Class is dwindling every day in this country. More and more people
cannot afford to live a Middle Class lifestyle, so they fall down a notch, into
the Lower Class, which is swelling to a ridiculous amount of the population.
And where is all that wealth going to? All the wealth that the government is
sucking out of the Middle Class? That’s right, the Upper Class gobbles it up.
The wealth disparity between the 1% and the rest of the population is at its
biggest ever in the history of this country. The Upper Class spends it all on
vacations, yachts, ridiculous expensive summer camps for their spoiled rotten
children, and so forth. The government does this on purpose, so the Upper Class
will reward politicians with ludicrous campaign contributions. And all the
while, millions of Americans are struggling to get by paying rent and grocery
bills.
6. Supporting dictators, authoritarian
regimes and racist apartheid occupying regimes.
I
already mentioned this partially in the first point, but this deserves a whole
point to itself, because it’s probably the #1 thing that the U.S. does that I
hate the most. If there’s anything that gets me fired up, it’s this. (And the
fact that I’m listening to Metallica while writing this probably isn’t
helping). Look at some of the countries that made the top 10 recipients of U.S.
foreign aid in 2009 and 2010:
Most
of those countries are horrible, corrupt, and brutal to their own people or the
people they are illegally occupying, (in Israel’s case). Is that the type of
countries you want your tax money to go to? Do you want your tax money to go to
financing the torture of teenage boy in Jordan for simply asking for the right
to vote? Do you want your tax money to finance Israeli tanks that kill unarmed
Palestinian men, women and children? Do you want your tax money to pay the
paycheck of a corrupt Afghan policeman who arrests a woman for being raped?
WAKE UP! Why aren’t you all fucking furious at this?! What does your inaction
say about yourself, your character, your values?! It’s sickening!!! Do you see
why people hate America?! We finance so much oppression, so much killing, so
much torture, so much repression. We’re the biggest terrorists on this
planet!!!
I
for one, do not just sit there and let our government do this. I attend every
protest that is related to this issue that happens in D.C. I constantly
write/call my congressmen and representatives, and let them know how sorely
disappointed I am in their voting record, and what I expect of them. I share
websites and articles through social media to help educate people. I donate
money to NGO’s that work to stop the U.S.’s support for such regimes. I sign
petitions. I write letters to the editors to newspapers. I gave a presentation
about an issue related to this at a high school. Bottom line is: I stir shit
up! If only a quarter of the population agitated as much as this, think of the
change we could bring. Ah, but I digress.
7. Global Military Empire.
America
has troops in 130 countries and 900 overseas bases!!!
This
isn’t making us any safer! In fact, it’s making us less safe! How would you
like it if Chinese troops patrolled your neighborhood? Or if Russian troops
harassed your wife or girlfriend when you two were out? That’s right, you’d be
fucking pissed off! Here’s a grand revelation here people: People don’t like
foreign troops on their land! Who’d thought?!
Ron
Paul would’ve fixed every single one of these problems, but the American
people, like blind cows going to slaughter, have chosen to continue having
these problems instead of the solutions. Paul would’ve done this to each one:
1. Only spend what money we actually have.
Ron
Paul is the only candidate that would actually, truly balance our budget, by
doing the spending cuts that nobody likes but that are necessary. And not
balancing the budget in a 3 or 4 decades, or…never, in some politicians’ cases,
but balancing the budget immediately. That’s what fiscally responsible people
do, and our nation should be modeled on that. If your monthly expenses is
higher than your monthly income because you’re buying a ton of fucking
luxuries, what do you do? That’s right, you reduce your expenses while trying
to increase your income, until you are breaking even or making a profit. A 4
year old knows that. But like many Americans, who blindly charge as much as
they can on their credit card each month, and only pay the minimum to keep
going, American politicians keep going deeper into debt, raising the “limit” on
how much we can borrow all the fucking god-damn time!!
2. Get politicians and businessmen out of bed.
Ron
Paul’s libertarian economics holds a strict principle of keeping politics out
of the markets, and markets out of politics. No more secret “campaign
contributions” from billion dollar corporations funneled into secret offshore
accounts of corrupt politicians, in return for the politician to vote a certain
way to help the corporation. No more treating a corporation “as a person,”
allowing them complete control over their helpless workers. This is how
capitalism is supposed to work; what we have is not true capitalism, its crony
capitalism. The markets and government work best when they are as far away from
each other as possible.
3. Deploy American troops to our southern
borders.
This
point is related to point #7, because Ron Paul would take all of our troops
from overseas, and send the majority of them back to their families, but
station enough that is necessary to finally protect our southern border with
Mexico. That’s the purpose of the military: to defend our borders and citizens.
Not invade countries that never attacked us, plunder their wealth, kill their
civilians, etc, etc. That’s what barbarians do.
4. Only declare war on a country that has
attacked us.
First
of all, Ron Paul would’ve actually gone through the trouble of formally
declaring war on a country. The U.S. has not done this since WW2. That is
absolutely revolting. Secondly, a Paul administration would only attack a
country in self-defense. I know, such a radical principle, right? No more
making up excuses and false information to attack a country, such as Bush did
with Iraq. No more attacking a whole country for the actions of one terrorist
group, such Bush did with Afghanistan. No more attacking a country for…having
a few people that don’t like us, such as Pakistan, Somalia, okay, you get the
point, right?
5. Give the Lower and Middle Class more
opportunities to move up.
Romney’s
plans for the economy would strangle this country even more than it already is.
He would tax the Lower and Middle Classes even MORE than they already are,
while lowering taxes for the Upper Class. He is simply an Upper Class lapdog,
eager to serve his financial masters, as well as get a few tax breaks himself.
And we’ve already had 3 years of Obamanomics, and look where that’s gotten us.
Complete shit.
6. NO FOREIGN AID.
This
is what I like about the Paul the most, is because he has a strict, unbreakable
principle of not giving even a single penny to any other country in foreign
aid. No more paychecks to corrupt Nigerian soldiers who torture teenagers,
exhort businesses, and rape women. No more Israeli APCs that help Israeli
soldiers to steal water, land, and resources from Palestinians in the West
Bank. No more funding for Pakistani policemen who arrest little girls who are
mentally handicapped for…insulting Islam? Give me a break! I don’t want any of
that shit on my conscience!
7. No more Global Military Empire.
No
more U.S. “advisers” helping Honduran police kill civilians for being LGBT. No
more “contractors” helping billion dollar corporations steal resources from
rural third world communities. Nope, a Paul administration would’ve stopped all
of these horrible crimes. He would have all of our soldiers within our own
borders, respecting other countries and not bearing down on their communities.
In
conclusion, Americans didn’t want to stop any of that. Their pride, arrogance,
racism, and bigotry blinded them from acting on true American values: respect,
justice, independence, freedom, liberty, and selflessness. When the next
recession hits us, or the next foreign insurgent or rebel attacks us, or when
we invade Iran, I’m going to be shaking my head and saying “I told you so.” We
have no one to blame but ourselves. We had a clear choice to pick solutions
based on American values, but instead, we narrowed our choices down to two men, (Romney and Obama)
who both display avarice, arrogance and cold-hardheartedness.
To
my international readers, I’m sorry for what America has done, is doing, or
will be doing to your countries. My heart aches for your pain and sorrow caused
by my countrymen. My blood boils at the injustices, horrors, and oppression you
have had to deal with because of my countrymen.
My
hands are clean of all this. My conscience is clear that I did all I could to
oppose all this. I voted for Ron Paul in my state’s primary election. I didn’t
want part in any of this shit.
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