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Originally posted by downtown436
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Well for Ron Paul, he had 30 years to increase his following and it reached a point and stayed there. This is indicitive of the amount of support he would ever get. His message resonated with a certain segment but was not flexible enough to go any further.
His strength was also his limitation. Its good to have unchanging principles but to appeal to enough voters to win an election you need to be willing to compromise.
Originally posted by TheBoomersRBusted
I understand the CIA determined by the mid-70's, by the Soviets' own information (birth death rates, alcoholism deaths, poverty rates etc) that the Soviet Union was not viable, it was matter of waiting them out. Then Bush got CIA (the A-team I recall..?) and they decided the Soviets were 10 feet tall and we had to spend all we could. No proof and all evidence is buried as usual.
Actually was the collapse of the SU a good thing? Growing up in the Cold War (6th grade during the Cuban Missile Crisis with a Nike base 1/2 mile over), as time went on I sort of imagined they would just slowly mellow, I am still amazed by the implosion. Only quasi-snark: the bipolar world kept all these little tinpot dictators and religious fanatics somewhat in line.
But more importantly, accepting the conventional wisdom as fact, my main point is to note the Reagan deficits, good or bad, did happen. The GOP, and points right, sure seem to be willfully blind on this repeating issue of 'conservatives' plunging us into huge deficits deficit via tax cuts and military expansion.
Well first of all, libertarians, at least their presidential candidate, wants to do away with all borders. He is on record as saying that he wants no border with Mexico.
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by Hopechest
Well first of all, libertarians, at least their presidential candidate, wants to do away with all borders. He is on record as saying that he wants no border with Mexico.
Thanks for bringing this up. There are several branches of "Libertarian". There is Green Libertarian and Socialist Libertarian (or Left-Libertarian), and in my view they might as well be in the Progressive Party, but perhaps they are less Statist than their Progressive cousins.