You may want to read the above post in regards to Ron Paul.
Borges — all of us can engage in lowest-common-denominator reasoning in order to malign people and groups we disagree with.
Ultimately, one has to understand one’s core values and political convictions before making definitive statements. For example: suppose you ask Ron Paul to identify the 10 books and 10 individuals which have most influenced his beliefs and values. You certainly would NOT find much commonality between his choices and those chosen by someone like Eustace Mullins.
Consider, for example, the people, groups, and publications whom Eustace Mullins associated himself with over the past 50 years.
When I write “associated himself with” — I mean what people groups, and publications
(a) he recommended/endorsed
(b) he was employed by and/or wrote for
(c) he joined as a member or as an officer
Here is a brief list:
1. H. Keith Thompson Jr. / American Committee For Advancement of Western Culture (neo-nazi)
2. National States Rights Party (neo-nazi, racist)
3. Conde McGinley / Common Sense newspaper (racist, anti-semitic)
4. Elizabeth Dilling (anti-semitic)
5. Lyrl Clark Van Hyning / Women’s Voice newsletter (anti-semitic)
6. Matt Koehl (neo-nazi)
7. Ezra Pound (anti-semitic, pro-fascist)
8. James Madole / National Renaissance Party (neo-nazi)
9. Realpolitical Institute (racist, anti-semitic)
10. Institute for Biopolitics (racist, anti-semitic)
11. Max Nelsen / Democratic Nationalist party (neo-nazi)
12. Adm. John G. Crommelin (racist, anti-semitic)
13. Gerald L.K. Smith (anti-semitic)
There is not even one scintilla of comparable evidence with respect to Ron Paul — so linking him in any way whatsoever to fascism, nazism, racism, anti-semitism is absurd.
What IS true however is that many critics of the Federal Reserve have adopted similar arguments about how the Federal Reserve came into being and some of those critics emphasize what they consider the inordinate influence of people of Jewish heritage in the financial history of our country.
But, surely, one can make appropriate moral and practical distinctions between outright bigots versus people who simply think the Fed should be abolished?