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Entry: Paul Campaign comes to an end ... I think Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/paul_campaign_comes_to_an_end_i_think#19310 Post contents: One of the last articles I read over at lrc was one by Gary North called "free lunch libertarians". We live in the immediate gratification society. I think Dr. Paul is about the same age as Ben Franklin was in 1776. Yet all I hear is criticism. Everyone says they could have done better if THEY were running the campaign, an arrogance worthy of a socialist or even a Neo-Con who think they can run the market or the world better than everyone else. For an egregious example of anti-war arrogance: http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/07/missed-mccain-knockout/ Ron Paul is both humble and successful. Go forth and earn 100 million dollars and spend it your way. Run for office and win reelection for a decade. Learn a complex trade where most practitioners think they are God's gift and remain humble. Accomplish something. Anything. Then criticize and explain - based on your historic record of accomplishment - what ought to be done different. Paul says he doesn't know how to run my or anyone elses life. Yet too many Libertarians and even if not especially Anarchists (Rothbard apparently would be a better General than George Washington, and all the suggestions about private insurance and security firms in a stateless society...) are arrogant fools. And the two are related. They know everything. Except how to get there. With real people in the current era. There is nothing they can't do better than someone else did last week or year - of course without a state. Socialists and NeoCons are only to be blamed because they are utterly wrong, not that they would use force. If the world would actually be so much happier, secure, wealthy, and utopian, why not use force against those who would prevent it (and anarchists think they will overthrow the state how exactly?). The problem is not that they are willing to use violence, but it is that they are totally wrong. Most people are. We are fallen creatures. We think we know something. And are willing to do stupid things and hurt a lot of people trying to make something work even when it is obvious we are wrong. So we ought not do it, or suggest those who have tried to do something honorable should have done something differently. Ben Franklin signed the document that ended saying they were depending on Divine Providence. Not their hubris. Not their strength. If you don't believe in luck, or a pagan fortuna, then pure dumb luck. A revolution takes time. I doubted there were even a dozen people in my town who would care about liberty enough to wave a sign. But there are thousands. Not enough to on short notice overthrow the MSM and the GOP machine. Did you think freedom would be easy and "a free lunch"? Or that it would be hard. That this would just be the first battle? Do you still care about liberty or not? If it isn't easy it isn't worth it? Are you in your arrogance saying we just need to hit the lotto with the right campaign theme? Organization? Press a button and in a few days UPS or FedEx will deliver it to your door? Or are you willing to keep fighting. Some are fighting in Iraq today in a battle which is far more futile and probably won't be worth anything when it is over. But they fight. We don't. We sit around and whine and complain. And say we could have done it better. Why bother going to the march in june? You won't win anything. It will take time and money. It won't be comfortable. Why show you care about freedom? Because you don't. Not if it requires a long battle. I'm quite sure we could win with less effort and suffering than George Washington's army and the rest of the revolutionaries had to go through. Tom Paine would be disgusted at us. We are all summer sunshine soldiers. Oh, I forgot, Rothbard said it was all so unnecessary. http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard171.html - right next to all the "Open Letters to normal people". It's Lent. But you won't sacrifice. You won't suffer - beyond maybe $2300. You won't go door to door in the snow or rain. You won't gather except to drink beer. You won't help. You won't pay the price in time and treasure to restore the constitution. And you say you care about the surveillance? The war? The dollar and the economy? You don't. Not really. Your actions betray you, but you do protest too much about the failures of a single man and a single campaign. Instead of telling Ron Paul and his campaign what he should have done, maybe you should ask what we can do now. The revolution is on. Do you want to be a part of it, or heckle from the sidelines? The choice is yours. Not this year, but 1776 was the declaration, it was many hard years of toil full of lost battles before victory was achieved. Ghandi also noted it was not something easy or that would happen overnight. Decide today you will do whatever is demanded - for we don't know today what will be needed - to bring liberty under the Ron Paul Revolution or wherever it leads. Or shut up and go away. Sent at: 2008 08 29