Ron Paul is compelling the respect of ordinary Americans, the kind of people who had given up on politics. He is creating a movement more profound, deeper, and more expressive of the real spirit of America than we have ever seen.
By comparison, Goldwater's campaign was nothing. In fact, America has seen nothing like the Paul Campaign since 1775. What was true then, is true today.
The truth is a heady drink.
A Revolution has begun, a continuation of the one we did not finish in 1776.
Through the colonial period Puritans, Quakers, Chesapeakes and Scots-Irish explored the ideas of freedom that resulted in the adoption of the principles of Natural Law as enunciated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.
This time the Ron Paul Revolution will finish what a stubborn people, determined to govern themselves, started.
Those ideas explored the idea that God endowed each individual with an immediate and personal relationship with Him. Remote from England the ideas that were born from the most ancient ideas of Christianity found resonance with new ideas then finding light in the works of John Locke and other writers on the ideas of Natural Rights.
The ideas of individual freedom had moved into the realm of politics through a process that had been going on for six generations. Getting things straight can take time. The ideas of liberty and the decentralized ability to take action were defused within the whole population of New England.
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