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People like Adanthar are opposed to Ron Paul because to support him is to admit that individuals are capable of taking care of themselves. That a government isn't needed to force people to take the correct course of action.

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lool. supporting someone is not "admitting" that you agree with them on everything. are anarchists who support Ron Paul admitting that a state is necessary?
I tentatively support Paul and I'm like, near socialist.

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Hmmm, If you are "near Socialist" I don't understand how you can support Ron Paul. Care to explain?

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Sure. I don't agree with any candidate on everything. I'm sort of a "libertarian socialist" in that I support moderately high taxes, translated into public services such as health care, education and day care, but I also strongly oppose throwing people into jail for non-violent drug use, prostitution, gambling and things of that nature. Unlike Paul, I'm not completely non-military-interventionalist. However, I think being completely non-interventionist would be far preferable to engaging in the kinds of intervention both that we are engaging in right now and that we've engaged in historically. The US foreign policy is an imperialist one, which I consider both immoral and detrimental. All Democrats talk about is getting out of Iraq (which most of them voted for and kept voting to fund) and being "anti-war". Paul actually talks about things like the immoral actions of the CIA and talks about much more major foreign policy change than simply withdrawing from Iraq.

Areas I like Democrats over Paul: pro taxes (esp. graduated), pro public healthcare (I doubt Hillary would do anything good on this tho'), pro public education.

Areas I like Paul over Democrats: Foreign policy, ending the war on drugs, cutting back on spending (not always something I'd care about, but certainly important right now)

I think THE BEST things we could do as a nation by far right now would be to stop antagonizing foreign countries with our imperialism and to end the war on drugs. That's why I like Paul... but I've been swinging back and forth on him TBH.