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Matt Collins
02-15-2011, 10:56 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBSgsMUvSpw&feature=player_embedded

SWATH
02-15-2011, 10:57 AM
Behind us?

Travlyr
02-15-2011, 10:59 AM
+ rep

Excellent strategy.

mczerone
02-15-2011, 11:18 AM
Sorry, no.

I agree that the past has shown that inside the system activism is less than perfect, but that DOES NOT IMPLY that turning to state government will be a better solution. Not that it shouldn't be tried, but history also shows that the Federal government's power of the purse is too mighty for states to battle for long. 55mph Speed limits were not constitutional, nor did many states truly want them. But once the federal government offered cash and made it politically incorrect to argue against lower speeds, no state governments were too willing to put up the good fight.

The current revolution should be fought on all fronts, however each individual wishes to go about it. Infiltrate the federal structure, dominate state and local politics, influence the academic class, persuade your friends and family, go off the grid, stop paying taxes, start agencies that compete with gov't provided services, theorize about what constitutional structure is needed.

The Ron Paul revolution will not end with Ron Paul. It will not end once the Federal Reserve and dept. of Education are shut down. It will only end once force is uninstitutionalized. Look around you, and you see free trade daily, everywhere. It is only hampered by taxation and regulation. You see battles for freedom daily, whether through Egyptian activism or though the defense of Wikileaks. These battles are part of the revolution narrative. Part of the human recognition that society does not need secretive tyrannical states to manage them.

Mike Church is right that more than one figurehead running for national office is needed to get to where we want to be. But he is wrong to suggest that this revolution will fizzle with the success or failure of Ron Paul.