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early-onset-of-night:

You wouldn’t know it from looking at me, but prayer is a big part of my life. Whenever the cameras are on me BANG! I immediately start praying, just like Tim Tebow. Instead of touchdowns, however, I ask for answers. For example, why are so many young white men crushing hardcore on Ron Paul? Surely, oh lord, there’s more to it than the whole “Dude, he’s totally gonna legalize pot” thing?

“Maybe,” answers the lord, who, by the way, is a Mormon. Seriously, how else can you explain the success of Romney?

The success of Ron Paul with Team 18-35 White Male is much harder to explain. Even the lord, hovering over there above Utah, is at a loss.

Ron Paul is a true oddity. A libertarian who doesn’t support Civil Rights. A scientist who doesn’t believe in evolution. A man who thinks the states, not the state, should regulate marriage—because, you know, fifty governments are smaller than one. Ron Paul is downright wacky in a lot of ways, plus a racist to boot.

Oh, and ladies? He’s all about liberty except when it comes your own output of children. That is not up to you. Now get back in the kitchen and make him a sandwich.

Mr. Paul isn’t all kookie conservative. Some of his ideas are actually unique, like MAYBE THE U.S. SHOULDN’T BE FIGHTING WARS ALL THE TIME. MAYBE THAT’S, LIKE, A BAD THING TO DO.

That type of anti-war thinking, however, de-legitimizes him. Ron Paul will never win the Republican nomination because of it alone. That military-industrial complex thing President Eisenhower warned us about has a bullet-proof vested interest in keeping a guy who doesn’t want to drop bombs on foreigners out of the White House. And since this military-industrial complex thing is more powerful than all 51 of our governments combined, you can easily guess what’s going to happen next.

That’s right. Iran.

But anyhoo, why are so many seemingly intelligent people supporting him? Is it just his anti-war stance alone? Is that really enough? Or could it also be selective hearing? Do they just hear the word LIBERTY and blot out FOR ORGANIZATIONS TO DOMINATE AND SUBJUGATE THROUGH ECONOMIC MEANS? I don’t know. I’m pretty sure, though, that Paul supporters are far more liberal than he is, which only confuses me more.

There is no chance that Paul will win the Republican nomination. The people who really run that party wouldn’t stand for it. He could, though, run as a third party candidate, making the upcoming election actually interesting. If he does go that route, you can bet your last dollar that everyone on Reddit will immediately log off and go vote for him because they think, for some bizarre reason, that he’s a libertarian.

Perhaps someday Americans will realize that liberty has a broader definition. We should be free to live our lives without interference from government so long as we don’t hurt other people, but we should also be free FROM things, too, like poisoned air or water resulting from completely unregulated industry. We should be free from having the cards stacked against us because of the color of our skin. We should be free to use the medical science our species has developed without consideration of cost—in other words, free from illness no matter how much money we have. After all, medical science is a life-saving breakthrough and not just a product.

Liberty should not be diminished by the government, the marketplace, or human ugliness. Mr. Paul has only realized a fraction of this.

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