Replies

This thread is long enough. The article was posted for two reasons. First, there are turning points in history that almost nobody foresees. Sometimes these turning points result from completely irrational reasons. Hitler's coming to power in Germany defies rational understanding. Churchill saw it coming, but everybody else thought Churchill was out of his mind. It was only when it actually happened that people turned to Churchill for leadership.

Traditional Republican leaders, including many that are considered very conservative, have generally failed to stem the tide of socialism that Democrats have imposed us. Nor have they turned away from Keynesian economics.

Like every other man, Paul is imperfect. But he has remained truer to freedom, Austrian economics, and the political agenda that is closest to what the country has needed for a very long time. The author is predicting that if the unthinkable happens, people might well turn to Paul who has been closest to the voice of reason for the longest period of time.

The article is predicting a paradigm change. The truth is that it is an easy prediction to make. Socialism is an economic system that has failed every time it has been tried and will predictably fail every time it is tried in the future, because it contradicts logic and natural economic principles. Since no one can possibly make it work, the only variable is when will it fail and on whose watch. Rogoff's and Rheinhart's book, "It's Different This Time", tells us that it is already almost inevitable for the US, but that predicting the time of the end or the particular "ending" is outside the scope of current knowledge.

If the end and ending are unpredictable, then it is not possible to determine when we have reached or gone beyond the point of no return until after the fact and it's too late. That should be beyond being acceptable to anyone who frequents FreeRepublic.

As an incurable optimist, I believe that it is not too late and that We the people can take charge and alter the outcome to something more favorable. Could there be a Renaissance in our future? Absolutely.

Invite your friends and see how a small group of people believes it can be done. By all means, feel free to show us how the plan we are putting forward can be improved. Ronald Reagan said, ""We have come to a time for choosing; we will preserve for our children this the last best hope for man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.....history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening."

Please join our discussion before We the people are all forced to bear the consequences of our follies. Please accept this invitation to add your name to the ping list.