“In a free society, you will always be able to buy a big drink with a lot of sugar in it.”
This was the first time I had listened to Ron Paul speak in person and it was very exciting, just like everyone said it would be.
Is the issue of raw milk this big of a deal? No, but the message of liberty is!
Do I idolize Ron Paul? The truth is that I didn’t support him at first. He is not a very good speaker, he is really old, and he is not very cool. But his message is consistent, and it defines a philosophy that I believe is the answer for how humans should treat each other. That message is generally the opposite of what the mainstream Republicans and Democrats practice. It is also the principle that started the United States of America and is embodied in the Declaration of the US and the US Constitution. Ron Paul has been at this for 40 years now. He doesn’t waver from his principle, he doesn’t give in to corruption or peer pressure. He is a hero and a true leader.
I pride myself on my ability to use reason and logic to come up with good solutions. This also means that emotion needs to be carefully dealt with to make sure it doesn’t bias the solutions, so I’ve become pretty good at recognizing emotion. For me, hearing Ron Paul speak on the topic of liberty was an emotional experience. Maybe this means I can’t possibly be thinking clearly about this subject. Or maybe it means I have thought about all the reason and logic up front, and to see one person lighting the fires of liberty inside so many peoples hearts really moves me! The grassroots liberty movement made huge advances this year. I’ve watched it happen right before my eyes. It is emotional, but I have to ask the questions, will it be enough, and is it too late?
So I got a little taste of some of the internal conflict within the Texas Republican party this past week while I participated in the Texas GOP Convention, which was the largest political convention in the world to date. It is a pretty clear trend: the energy and young people are solidly behind the message of liberty and adherence to the US Constitution as defined by Ron Paul. There are a few main groups where opposition to the message of liberty seems to come from: 1) The so called social conservatives, who advocate deviating from the conservative philosophy in areas where using the force of government supports the specifics of their value system. 2) The entrenched establishment who wish to remain in power at all costs. 3) Those convinced that support of the outrageous interventionist military practices are a good idea or are necessary for our safety.
Something (birds suspected) ate every bit of every peach that was on my tree. All they left was the pits, hanging there as if my tree only grows peach pits. Dang birds.
One of the best speeches from today at the Texas GOP convention was from Jerry Patterson, land commissioner and 2014 lieutenant governor hopeful. Here was one of his jokes:
