1: To whom do you refer, specifically?
2: Without the specificity from 1, we have no idea what you mean by "progress". Please elaborate in detail.
A valid question, but your insinuation that this is what all "purists" are about fails rather notably. It is no different in principle from "they all look the same to me".Your strategy seems to be convert everyone to become paleoconservatives or libertarians and then elect an entire government full of Ron Pauls. Does that really sound realistic to you?
Some, perhaps, but you paint with what seems an overly-broad brush.You are missing the big picture.
Now you appear to be talking some sense.America was not stolen in one day and will not be taken back in one day either.
Well stated, though the Fed was pretty much instantly created.It was stolen incrementally. There wasn't just a surge of globalist wrong on everything politicians that suddenly were elected and took control of the government. They slowly shifted the political landscape. They didn't instantly create the Fed, end the gold standard, create heavy taxes, police the world, create the war on drugs all in one swoop.
I cannot disagree with anything you wrote there. I just wrote on this very topic this morning, prior to discovering this thread.By not understanding the value of electing politicians who at least are good in certain areas, only supporting Ron Paul purity level candidates, and equating politicians who have some good views in critical areas with bad on everything politicians (like equating trump to bush or hillary) you are making your efforts in vain. Your strategy is awful.
Perhaps, but theirs are generally worse, but coming from another direction. A great plurality of Americans subscribe not only to the bankrupt tenets of progressivism, but are quite comfy with the violation and even murder of anyone standing in the way of realizing their political wet-dream of free lunch, death to white people, and the freedom to butt-sex on the courthouse steps with no fear.Thankfully most people don't have this view,
I would not go quite that far.Brexit and the future certain fall of the European Union would not be possible with your mindset.
We don't know that yet. It is my hope you prove right on this matter, but I'm not putting my eggs in anyone's basket just yet.I voted for Trump because he is not some puppet shill like McCain Romney or Bush.
He has EXPRESSED some good views. Whether they are indeed his remains to be seen. Let us hope you are correct.He has some good views.
You are assuming this to be the case. It may well be, but I maintain that it is an unproven belief. Let us not turn away from the fact that we live in a world of spin and outright lies. The art, craft, and technology of the lie, and of bull$#@!, are as never before. Every passing day shows it ever more difficult to tell who is telling truth, who is lying, and who is mixing the two. Actions will prove more eloquent than words. Net results will demonstrate the truer measure of Trump than his speak. At this point, only time will reveal the deeper truth, so my recommendation to everyone is to chill the hell out, get on the skeptic's fence, and keep your eyes peeled.Consider the following:
Hillary wants to antagonize Russia and basically build up a massive conflict further while Trump is friendly with Russia. Its possible the election outcome may have prevented a war. Is there no value in that for you?
This is an excellent analogy. Kudos and rep.In football terms you are basically trying to throw a hailmary every drive , going for it on 4th down every time and only accepting drives that end up with 7 points with no regard to field position, time of possession, field goals, plays that go for intermediate or short gains.. going for that madden bomb on every play.
You go too far. I am a purist of the deepest vein, and yet over the years I have learned the art of being pragmatic. I am still learning.You [purists] don't seem to know how to get things done.
Purists are absolutely essential to the cause of liberty. They are the ones who enshrine, guard, and preserve the ideals toward which all should strive. Without them, those ideals end up trampled upon by the presumably well-intending oafs whose flagging virtues cause them to compromise away that which is right in exchange for that which feels good at the moment. It is the idealist who stands at the narthex of the temple, rifle in hand, saying "thou shalt not pass". Without him, truth stands to be lost at the hands of dullards and malefactors. Do not be too eager to drill holes in him. Think of him as the equivalent of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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