In a speech that owes its temper more to Bukowski than an Obama, its content to Chalmers Johnson than a Reagan,  Ron Paul wonders aloud whether only another revolution will save America from its nemesis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vLV4jn8BMU


Quote:

Could it all be a bad dream or a nightmare?  Is it my imagination or have we lost our minds?   It’s surreal. It’s just not believable. A grand absurdity. A great deception. A delusion of momentous proportions. Based on preposterous notions and on ideas whose time should never have come - Simplicity grossly distorted and complicated. Insanity passed off as logic. Grandiose schemes built on falsehoods with the morality of Ponzi and Madoff. Evil described as virtue. Ignorance pawned off as wisdom. Destruction and impoverishment in the name of humanitarianism. Violence the tool of change. Preventive wars used as a road to peace. Tolerance delivered by government guns. Reactionary views in the guise of progress. An empire replacing the republic. Slavery sold as liberty. Excellence and virtue traded for mediocracy. Socialism to save capitalism. A government out of control. Unrestrained by the Constitution, the rule of law or morality. Bickering over petty politics as we enter into chaos. The philosophy that destroys us is not even defined. We have broken from reality – a psychotic nation. Ignorance, with a pretense of knowledge, replacing wisdom. Money does not grow on trees nor does prosperity come from a government printing press or escalating deficits. We are now in the midst of unlimited spending of the peoples’ money. Exorbitant taxation. Deficits of trillions of dollars spent on a failed welfare-warfare system. An epidemic of cronyism. Unlimited supplies of paper money equated with wealth. A central bank that deliberately destroys the value of the currency, in secrecy, without restraint, without nary a whimper. Yet cheered on by the pseudo-capitalists of Wall Street, the military-industrial complex and Detroit, we police our world empire with troops on 700 bases and in 130 countries around the world. A dangerous war now spreads throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. Thousands of innocent people being killed as we become known as the torturers of the 21st century. We assume that by keeping the already known torture pictures from the public’s eye, we will be remembered only as a generous and good people. If our enemies want to attack us only because we are free and rich, proof of torture would be irrelevant. The sad part of all this is that we have forgotten what made America great, good and prosperous. We need to quickly refresh our memories and once again reinvigorate our love, understanding and confidence in liberty. The status quo cannot be maintained considering the current conditions. Violence and lost liberty will result without some revolutionary thinking. We must escape from the madness of crowds now gathering. The good news is the reversal is achievable through peaceful and intellectual means and fortunately the number of those who care are growing exponentially. Of course it could all be a bad dream, a nightmare and that I’m seriously mistaken, overreacting and my worries are unfounded. I hope so. But just in case, we ought to prepare ourselves for revolutionary changes in the not too distant future.

A bit too much sensationalism, but I would have to agree with what he's saying. Hear hear!

Hlysnan wrote on Jan 18^th, 2010 at 6:57pm:

A bit too much sensationalism, but I would have to agree with what he's saying. Hear hear!

Yes, somewhat apocalyptic... If you've read Chalmers Johnson's "Nemesis : The Last Days Of The American Republic" (which I'm certain Ron Paul has) and heard Bukowski's recital of his poem "dinosauria, we (Born Into This)" ... Ron Paul's speech reads and sounds almost like an amalgam of the two.

Bukowski, Johnson and Paul...

American prophets?

yes, the mighty US is in trouble.
The only thing stopping Aussie from being exactly the same is our resources.
That's all.


If the US comes apart, it will be to the detriment of us all.
America has given the world more than most other nations in the history

The problem was not due to rampant capitalism.
it was leftard actions and lack of genuine capitalism that was any problem.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 18^th, 2010 at 8:48pm:

The problem was not due to rampant capitalism. it was leftard actions and lack of genuine capitalism that was any problem.

[21] And lo it came to pass that the mindless memes didst make of the cockroaches, hosts.

[22] And verily after the days of Armageddon, did they inherit the earth.

[23] And the lord saw that it was good, for the memes, being the scions of ignorance, did afford and comfort the cockroaches with their certainty.

fanny mae and freddy mac are both govt run organistaions.
they led the rot of the US system.

no way would a privately run business who runs for profit would have their lending "criteria".

supporting ANY stockbroker/bank with public $ is a leftard idea.
let it fail, ASAP.


you lefties have no idea

It's true. Ignorance breeds certainty... And the more profound the ignorance, the more simplistic the certainty.

Ahhh, if only Obama had delivered that speech. If only Obama was a republican candidate.
It's such a pity that Ron Paul's version of honest capitalism didn't quite gain enough support. Now there's a man that you could trust.

Amadd wrote on Jan 19^th, 2010 at 5:52am:

Ahhh, if only Obama had delivered that speech. If only Obama was a republican candidate. It's such a pity that Ron Paul's version of honest capitalism didn't quite gain enough support. Now there's a man that you could trust.

Step aside Obaman change, here's the Nemesis you can believe in. ;D

helian - fanny mae and freddy mac are both US govt run organistaions.

there is NO way ANY privately run company would lend money to people who could not pay it back.
Would you  ?

If I remember I think Chalmers was predicting the decline of democracy (many arguments suggest this has already happened) into right wing totalitarianism and isolationism. I have yet to read this book but remember vaugely a Radio Nat/ABC interview with him.

Rather than tear itself apart, it will pull in tighter but in a very detrimental way..please correct me if I am wrong.

Reminds me of the two great quotes by Ike

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

and

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Should have been a Democrate.  :) But I still like him.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 19^th, 2010 at 9:45am:

helian - fanny mae and freddy mac are both US govt run organistaions. there is NO way ANY privately run company would lend money to people who could not pay it back. Would you  ?

No, but isn't that exactly what critics accuse the independent US Federal Reserve of doing regardless of party colour? Greenspan and Benanke in their turn were endorsed as its chair by both sides of politics. In fact Time Magazine declared Benanke its 'Man of the Year'.

locutius wrote on Jan 19^th, 2010 at 9:47am:

If I remember I think Chalmers was predicting the decline of democracy (many arguments suggest this has already happened) into right wing totalitarianism and isolationism. I have yet to read this book but remember vaugely a Radio Nat/ABC interview with him. Rather than tear itself apart, it will pull in tighter but in a very detrimental way..please correct me if I am wrong.

Yes, Johnson suggests that the US will become more belligerent and totalitarian as external and internal pressure on its crypto-empire increases.

He suggests that, as with others before it, that the US will have to choose between democracy or empire... It can't have both.