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Ron Paul does not believe the U.S. will break into separate countries, like the Soviet Union did, but expects changes in the U.S. monetary policy, as well as the crumbling of the country’s “overseas empire.”
The godfather of the Tea Party movement and perhaps the most prominent right-leaning libertarian in America, Ron Paul, believes the economic boom the United States experienced under President Trump could be a “bit of an illusion.”
Mr. Paul sees inequality, inflation, and debt as real threats that could potentially cause a turmoil.
“the country’s feeling a lot better, but it’s all on borrowed money” and that “the whole system’s an illusion” built on corporate, personal, and governmental debt.
“It’s a bubble economy in many many different ways and it’s going to come unglued,”
In a recent interview with the Washington Examiner, Paul said,
“We’re on the verge of something like what happened in ’89 when the Soviet system just collapsed. I’m just hoping our system comes apart as gracefully as the Soviet system.
We have ownership of these countries, but it’s not quite like the Soviets did. I think our stature in the world and our empire will end, and that’s when, hopefully, the doors will be open.”
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The crumbling of America’s “overseas empire,” as Mr. Paul calls it, could be a chance for the libertarian movement to captivate the country’s imagination by 2020.
The fact that the system is coming apart could be a big opening for the libertarians, Paul claims. However, it is not just Trump administration’s foreign policy that could play a part in this.
“I think the foreign policy is a total disaster. Trump’s approach sounds good one day but the next day he’s antagonizing everyone in the world and thinks we should start a war here and there,” he said.
The former politician and host of the popular Ron Paul Liberty Report podcast has been a vocal critic of the NSA’s surveillance program, the USA PATRIOT Act, the War on Drugs, and the government’s fiscal policies as a whole. Interestingly, the topic of one of Mr. Paul’s recent podcasts was bitcoin.
“The government, for its own reasons, monopolized the creation of money. Money originated in the marketplace. Let people sort it out,” he says.
Apart from criticizing Donald Trump, the “Tea Party’s Brain,” as some journalists have called him, criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Mr. Paul considers Sessions to be a threat to civil liberties. According to Paul, Trump’s foreign policy is a “total disaster,” as well as the war on terrorism and the “war on immigrants,” as Mr. Paul puts it. He went as far as calling these policies authoritarian-fascism.
The former U.S. Representative, author, and physician is cautiously optimistic about the future of the libertarian movement. Although he sees Trump’s policies and what he predicts to be the imminent crumbling of the American economy and the country’s overseas empire as an opening for the libertarians, he admits that the movement has a lot of work to do before American voters accept a true libertarian. Still, Paul thinks having a popular candidate in 2020 is very possible.
“We as libertarians have some work to do before [voters] are going to accept a true-blue libertarian,” he said, “but I think moving in that direction and having a popular candidate [in 2020] is very possible.”
“If they only hear our message, I know they would choose liberty and sound money and freedom and peace over the mess we have today,”
In the 2016 election, third parties faded to the background. The Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States, Gary Johnson, won 3 percent of the vote, outperforming the 2012 results when he won 0.9 percent.
Ron Paul thinks America is on the verge of a collapse……..”Still, Paul thinks having a popular (Libertarian) candidate in 2020 is very possible.”
Yeah maybe?
Libertarians are delusional.
In 2020 we will get John Bolton.
….no matter who you vote for.
goo goo goo joob
not delusional so much as making different decisions, from different points of view. Ask any “Libertarian” and they will tell you in clear terms how well the party has done, is doing, and they just have a more optimistic opinion on how it WILL do that the average Republicrat opining on the subject.
Please, I have heard how Libertarians will rise as an important political party ever since Ed Clark got a million votes in 1980. His vote total remains just shy of Gary Johnson’s total from 2012, both of which are statistically insignificant. The Libertarian Party as a vehicle of placing people into office is an epic fail since 1972.
I’m curious to know why a popular, well known person/celebrity doesn’t run on the Libertarian ticket.
Really…why not?
who has the stones to take on the deep state establishment
clint eastwood but he’s nearly 90
drew carey?
tom selleck?
kurt russell?
peter thiel?
vince vaughn?
raymond teller?
Petey Thiel admits to weekly blood transfusions from “young
people” in the hope of staying young. (Brags) He’s probably right.
I bet he isn’t enjoying GMO food and that he has a mega air-
purifier in his environments. This is a man that works with and
for the spies in CIA. John Bolton is in his last stage of life.
We need tiny/small communities (minimal government) and
accountable to the residents. Those living centers may not have
big money, but there is a bit of liberty to be had. The Fed gov
screws up everything with their bribes (our $) and their
reliance on the threat and actuality of violence against the
poor sucker citizen. Libertarianism is not a viable concept
in a country of 300+ million people, half of them with their
hands out for a free ride. Whites can’t keep up as it is. I hope
we don’t “collapse” but everything on credit growth can’t last.
YES
I’d vote for Penn Jillette
Then there’s:
Drew Carey
Kurt Russell
Vince Vaughn
Robert Duvall
Tom Selleck
Trey Parker
Matt Stone
Clint Eastwood
Woody Harrelson
Rufus Wainwright
I’m sure there’s more. When I vote Libertarian I’m sometimes asked, “Name one country run successfully by Libertarians”
Well, name one country run well by republicans, democrats, democracy, communism, socialism, etc…
May as well try eh?
The best answer yet for the question…Why should I vote Libertarian?
I’d vote for Vince Vaughn or Woody Harrelson.
I was thinking Penn too! Most of them have little interest in politics (Clint being the obvious exception) but if Libertarian views continue to grow (I read a few months ago someone postulating that “Freedom” is becoming “hip” in the entertainment set…:}), perhaps one of them might just make that decision. Several have done good things for Liberty already in the media.
If only we as a nation stuck to our binding document as the rule of law concerning our domestic and foreign policies as well as fiscal policies regarding money trade and finance , OH SHIT ! I meant liste to Ron Paul 30 fucking years ago !
To late now , something has got to go Boom in our nations economy dragging our society down with it !
Just waiting to see what gives in and collapses first !
Any time now , a week , a month or a year or two sooner probably not later SPLAT like the bug on the windshield !
Woody Harrelson? Gonna save us? Go Libs!! Now we know why these nuts always garner about 1% of the vote.
EC,
$$$, it is always about the money, and people will
readily kill to steal it.
If we have a financial collapse, then maybe the Libertarians could prevail. Who else would become political if there was no money involved? Every politician becomes a money whore, then a power whore. The system surrounds them, strokes their sociopathic balls and girls. Fall fucking down already, let’s get this thing started.
Pen,
Your statement is true. However, when it falls, many people
will die. Remember the Deagel report?
Zara stop with the crap you are writing. You are scaring the shit out of me. You are making sensible comments..