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" Because political crises create political will and thereby lead directly to more statism. Therefore, actually being around for the destruction of a country is a dangerous, messy affair that will cost everyone. Better to foot-vote out of a state on the verge of failure and insulate yourself, and provide a way out for others. Furthermore, the existence
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Who says you have to do anything? If the world is going to hell and as Mises says socialism always fails then why not watch it fail? You can watch them scurry about trying to save something that is doomed to fail and have a laugh.
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Jefferson embrace freedom? Jefferson was a disgusting hypocrite who created the idea of the "Empire of Liberty." Did you think Woodrow Wilson came up with the idea of spreading democracy and American values by himself? A pox on Jefferson for giving us the empire we know today.
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All you did was post the bill of rights Neo. Are you stating that these rights did not exist before the constitution?
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" I think you misunderstood me. My point is precisely that liberty ISN'T government, but RP's legacy will be that he convinced an entire generational audience of potential anarchists that liberty IS "limited constitutional government".' Oh I was not misunderstanding you. Just reinforcing what I thought you were saying. "
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: This isn't what people think of when they celebrate the constitution, but I've always thought that the constitution did one thing do really promote liberty which was to guarantee certain rights regardless of what individual states would have done. It also prevented the troubling possibility of direct conflict between the states themselves
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Are you serious? Stay in school. What are you incapable of deciding what is and is not useful in terms of information dispensed to you? Yea there are some useless parts of high school but there are useful parts also. Seriously..I cannot believe that someone would drop out of high school.
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In some way Social Democrats are close to liberals and they would be considered socialists. I guess you could say that liberals are more moderate then social democrats who are more moderate then marxists.
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" Ron Paul had a unique chance in history, and he used it to convince the widest potential audience for anarchism that liberty is limited constitutional government. That's his legacy." Liberty is. It is not government that creates liberty. Liberty exists separately from government. Government can only befuddle it. Frankly I'm done
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What killed the movement? A simple question with a simple question. Ron Paul supporters did. I do not mean all the fighting and power grabs. I do not mean the conspiraces. There were some really outrageous ones but those are just minor. What killed the Ron Paul movement is the idea that you can change the system that has been running for nearly 300