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Entry: You Say You Want a Revolution? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/you_say_you_want_a_revolution#26307 Post contents: It is not clear to me why the demographic integrity of the self-indulgent distracted wage slaves Mr. Gavin would wish to preserve or their inability to comprehend some basic ideas and truths is very relevant to the review of The Revolution. It is especially unclear given Doctor Paul’s hard line on the issue and his call for a constitutional amendment abolishing birth right citizenship. Was there something imprecise about that? It was not his inability to articulate these ideas; he did that admirably. It is just that Paul spoke and reasoned dialectically as well as rhetorically because he had to teach and reason beyond slogans and platitudes. Aristotle cautions public speakers against this. It confused folks back in dithyrambic Athens and it confuses folks in the global village. Yet Dr. Paul couldn’t condescend to his audience and paid them the compliment of assuming that they were literate and rational. There were plenty of Ron Paul kids reading and reasoning as well as boogeying. They were Greek and Jew, White, Asian, African American and other. The intellectual gamut ran from Alex Jones to Richard Weaver. What was as astonishing as the diversity of his supporters was the real if forlorn hope, faith, and love with which they carried the message. No fear-mongering, demagoguery, or self-interest. These kids were consacrated into truth and the truth is far more important than politics and far more important than the demographic integrity of television viewers who like Bill Kristol because he looks familiar. I agree with Plato and Professor Gottfried, let’s call them by their real name, “democrats.” Count the heads of the herd as they head off into Book IX of The Republic and the consequences of their ideas. Mr. Gavin’s beer-swilling sports fans will get what they deserve: democracy, good and hard. Sent at: 2008 10 07