Posted on 12/27/2017 7:21:22 AM PST by EdnaMode
It is funny. I’d guess the opposite; Trump’s base is if anything even more firm and determined and larger than they were the first time around. Any politician running against him in the primaries will be politically finished.
There are a number of billionaires out there who think, just because he did it, any billionaire can do it. They do not know the voter, they don’t know Trump, and they don’t frankly know themselves either.
Ron Paul may be half baked sometimes, but it’s important for people like him to be involved in the political process. Some of the things he says here are absolutely true, and these libertarians are valuable in keeping the GOP from adopting a full-scale globalist agenda.
I call B.S. on this. Please cite any evidence to support this statement. The U.S. would not have needed to go through the idiotic song and dance to get the U.N. involved if this was true.
That is why they didn’t have a military to speak of.
This would make your first part of this statement even more ludicrous. Signing a mutual defense treaty with a country that has no military is the height of irresponsibility.
Kuwait didn't need a mutual defense treaty with the U.S. for the same reason they didn't need a military. Countries like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia had already done a thoroughly effective job of buying influence in the U.S. directly -- to the point where the U.S. government remains a wholly-owned subsidiary of these royal families to this day.
Do you think it's just a coincidence that the U.S. has pissed away thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars in military campaigns that were undertaken on behalf of real estate investment partners of the Bush family?
You’re not being helpful, Ron. In fact, I’d call that aiding and abetting the enemies of the republic.
Ditto.
And monkeys may fly...
At the end of the century I was one of those Libertarian Party members attending the nominating conferences. Just after the 9/11 attack, I saw the schism building between those in the Libertarian Party that saw attacks by Islam as initiation of force (thus requiring a principled libertarian response), and those that thought the use of force by Islam was retaliation for transgressions by the the US (Paulists, etc.). That woke me up to the fact that the whole large "L" libertarian party was all smoke and mirrors. Half of the party members were were drawn from disgruntled Democrats and the other half, disgruntled Republicans. It was a loose coalition only held together by cleverly worded buzz phrases. The party leaders know this. Michael Cloud hosts seminars to teach outreach methods to lure in new members by avoiding and deflecting off-putting arguments and presenting cleverly worded statements that many couldn't disagree with.
The one that jumped out at me is, "let peaceful individuals cross borders freely." The thing they will not answer is, who will ever know if an individual is peaceful?
David Bergland, the 1984 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate, has performed studies of Libertarian Party enthusiasts at every conference and convention for decades. He asks attendees to fill out Myers-Briggs personality surveys and Keirsey Temperament sorters to categorize the members. Their quest has been an ongoing effort to find words that will bring the rest of the 90% of personality types in our nation into their coalition. A hopeless mission.
Some of the seminar takeaways:
1. Politics is war conducted by other means
2. Politics is a war of position
3. In political war the aggressor usually wins
4. Position is defined by Fear and Hope
5. Weapons of political war are symbols that evoke these feelings.
6. Victory lies on the side of the People
Never, ever, ever, under and circumstances define an issue by any means other than Fear and Hope.
Libertarians are anti-Socialist but...
I am aware of the situation in the Middle East at the time. I am also aware the president and Congress committed the nation to a war without the formal declaration of war required by the Constitution. The Constitution makes no provision for mutual defense treaties forcing the nation into war without the required Congressional action.
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