Do any anarchists on this site believe that a Ron Paul presidency is going to make any substantive long-term change in governance ?
And if so, by what mechanism would a hypothetical President Paul force change when Congress, the states, Judiciary, et al reject 90% of what he desires ?
And what substantive political change has Representative Paul been responsible for bringing to fruition in his 30+ years in Washington (besides funding a statue in Galveston) ?
‘Hope and Change’ anyone ?
No true anarchist believes in politics! Checkmate.
Is your day job being a statistician?
If there was a change in the citizens mindset towards libertarianism etc, the spineless politicians would follow.
Mostly as commander and chief of the military and foriegn policy. The president has direct control over those affairs.
The statist is mad at the anarchists who support a statist…
I don’t feel like responding to the OP beyond saying: Cut government agencies and veto, veto, veto. But I’d like to say that I find the name of this thread incredibly nonsensical, if only because of ‘anarchist’ instead of ‘libertarian.’
+1 vive
In the long term scheme of things I certainly speculate on how a document that has failed to maintain the goal of limiting government power leads to question: how could any other centralized method effectively do so? The application of this line of questioning can be rather broad, as we all have our failings, and the means of learning from them are not necessarily outright universal.
The main thing I’d be looking forward to from a Paul presidency would be the education of the American people (and the whole world) with four years of Ron Paul at the “bully pulpit.” I mean, just with him at 15%(?) nationally in the polls, how many people has he already led to understanding economics?
Hopefully somewhere around 0.2%