RON PAUL AND THE BIGGEST IRONY OF OUR LIFETIME

Why is a nation gifted with a world top class Constitution, based on democratic principles, getting the results of a bankrupt third world dictatorial welfare/warfare state? It’s not the Constitution that failed the people. It’s the people of America that failed the Constitution at all levels of society.

The leaders of the country have certainly failed the people by catering to special interest groups to the point of being dominated in most every aspect of political life. That’s the reason why our financially dominated and carefully crafted election rules and procedures assure that only Presidents are chosen who will allow the wars to go on, as the country goes further into bankruptcy, while individual and civil rights are constantly lost along the way.

Even the most important economic decisions are made by the same group of private bankers, often the very same individuals, which the government is not even allowed to audit or monitor (Federal Reserve), regardless of which establishment candidate from either party becomes President.

A free press and mass media were given special privileges as well as important obligations to prevent America’s takeover by an elite establishment. Their actual news coverage was to be informative, balanced, and guided by democratic principles, especially when it comes to elections. Coverage was to be fair and basically limited to reporting the facts while letting the voters decide.

The mass media in turn has made a mockery out of democratic and free elections during the last two Presidential campaigns when it came to their coverage of Ron Paul. During much of this time he was ignored, laughed at, ridiculed, marginalized, and/or declared “fringe” and “unelectable”

To any close political observer it is obvious that the mass media has completely abandoned its obligation to journalism and its role in a democracy by actively going out of its way to circumvent the campaign of someone truly challenging the elite establishment. The mass media grossly failed America as well.

The last line of defense for preserving a democracy and the interests of the people are the people themselves and, perhaps most sadly of all, they have been conditioned to supporting the destructive elite establishment as well.

It is simply astonishing that a Christian nation which claims to honor God’s commandments supports establishment candidates who stand for rushing into pre-emptive wars built on deliberate lies and false slogans to create massive suffering, hatred, and terrorism, as a first resort.

It is simply astonishing that Tea Party members who came together to cut federal spending are voting for establishment candidates as opposed to Ron Paul who not only presents the only serious plan to carry this out but has been the only candidate who has consistently fought for such action to be taken during the past 20 years.

It is simply astonishing that OWS, with one of its main positions being to “End the Fed,” fails to support the one candidate who brought this and many other issues on behalf of the people to light due to basically fighting alone for 20 years with no support during much of this time.

The failure of the American people does not stem from evil but rather from perhaps the biggest irony of our lifetime: The establishment, with its supportive mass media that serves more as a cheerleader for the elite than a source of information, has been able to convince most Americans that the one candidate who speaks the documented truth, follows the good advice of our forefathers which served us so well over many decades, and supports the U.S. Constitution, is “fringe,” “unelectable,” and “dangerous.”

I still hope and pray that enough people from every segment of the population will come together in time to the save the day and elect Ron Paul as our next president. The alternative is to accept endless wars, bankruptcy, full scale Depression, and the self-destruction of a once great nation.

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