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January 5, 2008 at 10:57:53     Permalink Uphill Battle For Ron Paul Diary Entry by John Danforth (about the author)

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Some people are celebrating Ron Paul's 10 percent showing in Iowa as a defeat for Ron Paul's platform.

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--Originally posted as a response to an article gloating about the primary results in Iowa.--

A NATION OF BEGGARS AND THIEVES?

Ron Paul's 10 percent showing in Iowa illustrates the difficulty that will be faced by any candidate who advocates freedom and responsibility. The propensity of the electorate to try to vote for benefits to be paid out of other peoples' pockets and the propensity of candidates to pander to them reveals the U.S. to be a nation of beggars and thieves, willing to take benefits extracted from others by force, yet victimized themselves by the powers they grant to government.

IOWA PROFITS FROM THE ETHANOL/CORN BUBBLE

Iowa is a corn state and the farming sector in Iowa is keeping pace with inflation because of interference in the market with ethanol subsidies, resulting in rapidly escalating prices for corn and consequently all other food products as corn displaces other crops to take advantage of the bubble. Small wonder that the people in this state vote to try and save their family farms by supporting candidates that meddle in the market for their benefit. Without these subsidies, these farmers would be getting crushed by rampant pricing inflation like the rest of us.

STEALING FOR A GOOD CAUSE, WITH FEELING

Fraud and force are the tools statists use to corner people into economic conditions that will encourage them to vote for ever more market manipulation. The fraudulence starts with the notion that you can use force in the marketplace for a good purpose without the negative effects overcoming whatever good intentions were originally put forth to justify it. The fraud is extended by politicians who frame these justifications in terms that sound noble, allowing the voters to evade guilt over the fact that their desire for the unearned makes them beggars, and their vote to take it from others by force makes them thieves.

I SUPPORTED YOUR CAUSE, PLEASE DON'T RUIN ME TOO

As in other nations where this experiment has been tried, it will be too late to complain when the people wake up to find that the power they wanted to exercise over others is used to dominate and impoverish them, too. The power will be in place, their wealth and property gone or in jeopardy, and they will be powerless to resist as their assets are placed on the block to be grabbed by a different constituency.

ARE WE WORTHY OF SALVATION?

The primaries in the rest of the country will be a test of the honesty, morality, and intelligence of the people. And it will be a test of whether the message has gotten out that freedom is the only sustainable and moral condition. Most people are decent at the core, and they come to understand how freedom and responsibility translate into a peaceful and prosperous environment that rewards moral and honest behavior when they learn that most evil stems from desire for the unearned. They easily recognize the impoverishment, misery, and violence that politics based on pandering to the desire for the unearned causes.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

So sure, if you are a statist, go ahead and celebrate the Iowa results. Maybe the remaining primaries will be a resounding defeat for the constitution, the right of a man to keep what he earns, and peace. When the next statist takes power, whether it be of communist or fascist persuasion, the decades of previous policies will already be taking effect; the loot that is at stake for buying votes and ruling over the people will wither in your hand even as you grasp it. The tipping point has been passed. The mixed economy has driven production out to the point where it can no longer sustain any further looting. Printing and borrowing money have made increasing the deficit a sure recipe for catastrophe. It's too late now, the government cannot stop borrowing no matter what the cost, and more taxation is inevitable but will only speed up capital flight from the productive sector that is already underway and accelerating, leaving the remaining producers far outnumbered by consumers of tax and printed money.

A BITTER HARVEST

It will be a hollow victory for the beggars and thieves. Their sense of entitlement won't allow them to jump ahead of everyone else as we all stand in bread lines, nor will it qualify them to be the boss of the work camp or the collective farm.

IT'S NOT POLITE TO POINT OUT THE OBVIOUS

And those of us who pay the way for this country will never forget. That's why there is such alarm at the way the freedom message is spreading despite all attempts by the old media to stop it. No mention of the looming Depression and currency failure are allowed in the press, in which banks will hold all of the worthless currency but more importantly, most of the assets and property of the nation. The candidates who want air time must all pretend that runaway debt and interest costs can't crash the entire economy. Anyone drawing attention to the currency crisis and the evil behind it must be shushed like a child in church. The hope is that perhaps if they can silence the message, the people will go along with plans for the continuation of power when everything crashes.

GET READY FOR A SURPRISE!

Statists would like the people to be ready for a change, but not for a change to freedom and property rights. If the economy collapses, bankers will finance 'strong' politicians who promise to exercise even greater control to prevent a collapse from ever happening again, and who will forcefully point blame at a scapegoat to rally the nation behind them. Too bad the cat is out of the bag, the dirty secret has been revealed, and ever greater numbers of people are wise to this evil strategy. We've seen how a currency collapse brought on by welfare socialism can be cured by fascism. They tried that in Germany once, remember?

Even in Iowa, 10 percent of the people aren't going to go along with it. Watch the numbers grow.

 

Mr. Danforth is a supporter of the Constitution of the United States of America, as defined by Thomas Jefferson.

 

 
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