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Entry: The Ron Paul Revolution Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_ron_paul_revolution#8665 Post contents: <i>Originally, the Republican Party was the party of labor, of farmers and generally poor people…thus the opposition to slavery as it was a threat to free labor.</i> Risible nonsense. Joe Populist worshiping at the Hamiltonian Neocon idol called Lincoln, swallowing utterly the myth of super rich railroad lawyer as the supposed humble rail splitter. The Republican party from Day One, as the Whig and Federalist before it, was the party of big business. It hasn't changed its platform in its 150+years, if not since Hamilton: 1. the centralized supreme Federal State, with the 50 states as just franchises of the Federal. 2. Federal control of the currency with fiat money issued by a bank, and high National Dept. (It was the Jeffersonians, from Jackson to Cleveland, who wanted the Gold Standard and a retired debt. This began to change with Bryan.) 3. Corporate welfare: the sky-high tariff, "internal improvements", easy money, etc. 4. Imperial expansion, starting with Dixie. Read thomas DiLorenzo on Lincoln and Capitalism. <i>tyranny of the gold standard</i> More nonsensical. Now Joe buy’s FDR’s moonshine. In fact, if you had gone to work in 1870, and retired in 1911, you could have bought more for your dollar. In other words, there was a general deflation without wages going down. Why? The Gold Standard. We all know what happened to your dollar if you went to work in 1965 and just retired today. Lawrence Goodwyn the Lefty is Joe’s favorite writer? Now he’s a Cultural Marxist. Farmers were doing badly in the 1890s because we had too many of them for a rapidly industrializing society. Call them hayseed Luddites. In short, Joe is every political direction except Real Conservative. And libertarian. And Christopher Lasch's "populism" was really an ex-leftist's Jeffersonianism. I’m glad Boyd Cathey is supporting Ron Paul. I like his analysis and would add only two corollaries. Gringos to date can’t think except in terms of two parties. If one party does poorly, they vote for the other, which does even worse. This might be changing. Unlike 1992 or even 2000, the world is now sharply divided into the computer literate and the computer illiterate, those who get their news watching television, and those who get their news reading the internet. The former will vote for the two major parties. Less so the latter. The Internet is also a writeback and meetup medium. We'll see if this makes a difference. Second, too many Gringos to date live off the government, and thus vote their pocketbook, and thus vote themselves a paycheck out of the U.S. Treasury. Now more are aware that The State isn’t a <i>deus ex machina</i> to solve economic problems as FDR and Mussolini taught, but is in fact causing the economic mess. Ron Paul can win if he persuade people of this. Oliver Cromwell didn’t torture people? And I suppose that the Salem witch trials never happened. Mr. Ramus also needs to put down his copy of Calvin's <i>Institutes</i> and read some history. Sent at: 2008 09 07