Ron Paul and the Singularity

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Another point is that if the general public no nothing of our position I don't want their first contact with the true ideas of freedom to be a guy who wants to use taxation, the police and the threat of violence to forcefully evict hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Sending mixed messages on a first impression is much worse than sending no message at all. Once people get the idea the Ron Paul is what all freedom loving people aspire to getting that image out of their head will be very difficult.

You went through the minarchist progression but you just said you have the propensity to argue and debate intelligently (and above all logically) about politics. If people aren't prepared to do that all I want them to hear from freedom lovers is violence is evil taxation is violence. Lets not confuse them.

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So, are you saying that by not voting, somehow, by osmosis maybe, JohnQPublic will tune in to your ideas? Oh or because you haven't voted in the past 2 elections that FauxNews is going to be moved to start talking about "true freedom"?

Are you hoping that over time people will catch on and just stop voting? What does this accomplish, in reality, in the physical world the majority of us lesser minds live in?

Suppose somehow you are able to sway the majority and only the far right/far left (who will never move) continue to vote? How do you convince people that your way is the right way without them seeing it in action?

Do you think that if somehow you were able to sway the majority that the establishment wouldn't see the potential for change and simply stop it with the power we've allowed them to accumulate during the years you were "acting on principle"?

I dunno if you've noticed but mainstream America (read: VOTERS) are not exactly turned on by radicalism these days - which anarchism certainly is. FauxNews is just going to tell them you support terrorism and that'll be the end of it.

We are social beings. It is human nature to follow the crowd. People are going to do, be, say, believe anything FauxNews tells them they should do, be, say and believe. Figure out how to combat that and you just may be on to something.