Red State Vs. Blue State: Brody Vs. a Ron Paul Supporter, Part Two

Today we conclude the epic–well, not really, but dramatic statements needs to get injected into this rather dry debate–face-off of me and one of Ron Paul’s followers of “Radical Individual Libertarianism” who pat themselves on the back for being such free thinkers…who all more or less think the same. We join this debate from where we left off last week…

Brody: I guess the problem I have with Paul is that he’s not really as different as his supporters make him out to be. I wish I thought he was truly as revolutionary as they do, but I don’t. The problem with politics is corporate money has flooded the system and he isn’t as concerned with that as he is taking money away from poor people.

Michael: Hyperbolic rhetoric. He is absolutely taking on corporate money flooding the system. By wanting a purer form of capitalism, it would end the bailouts the big banks get, corporate welfare, and stop all this wasteful spending to defense contractors.

Brody: And that makes a great applause line that even liberals can get behind, but if you don’t take the money out of the ELECTION process, then the candidates who want to take on defense contractor spending will never get elected. Plus, the banks got bailed out to save the economy–

Michael: No they didn’t–

Brody: And several members of congress would fight defense contractor spending cuts tooth and nail because it would hurt job creation in their areas. There are a lot of districts in North Carolina and Virginia, among other areas, that depend on defense contractor jobs, so Paul wouldn’t really be able to cut those sectors even if he were elected.

Michael: Such a defeatist attitude. The Ron Paul revolution has already started sweeping congress too–

Brody: In the form of the Tea Party, which is the least popular group in America right now. They’ve been in office one year and are widely regarded as the biggest fuck-ups in recent history. So, no, I don’t think his “revolution” would be successful. We’ve already seen everything he wanted and seen how ineffective it is.

Michael: It’s not about the “popularity” of the Tea Party or Libertarianism itself–

Brody: That’s something else I don’t get about you guys. You talk all this shit about the constitution but elections and what people want, you know the whole POINT of our Democracy, doesn’t seem to matter to you.

Michael: I don’t get what you mean, although it seems like you’re blatantly twisting the truth.

Brody: You keep acting like it doesn’t matter if Paul is elected or not, he should be president anyway. And in every conversation I’ve ever had with his followers, they pride themselves on being outside the mainstream and not doing what’s popular. People aren’t electing Paul so he can cause pain and suffering, and that’s probably WHY he’s not getting elected. The large majority doesn’t want him or all of their entitlement programs gone but then it becomes “Fuck the majority.” You guys pride yourselves on freedom, but it just seems like you want what you want, and screw everyone else, which is freedom for YOU but tyranny for the rest of us.

If you ever really got what you wanted, it would be America as it was 200 years ago which is the end of America, but you just keep insisting that that would be better. I’ll bet for all his “Classical Liberal” “Libertarian” “Austrian Economics” Head in the Clouds, dry political science horse shit, Paul wouldn’t have a clue about how to really get down to the nitty gritty and actually run this country. He’d be a completely impotent president that wouldn’t know what to do and would make a big mess of everything. Just like the Tea Party.

Michael: That was an interesting, fictional rant, but the reality is, of course, very different.

Brody: I know that RP fans are not good at ending debates even if they’ve run out of material–

Michael: I haven’t run out of material. You’ve barely let me scratch the surface.

Brody: Amazing, but we aren’t writing a book about Austrian Economics here. We have to wrap it up. If there’s anything you’d like to say, now should be the time because this debate is ending in about five seconds.

Michael: I have so much to say. If there’s one thing I want to get across about Paul and really Libertarianism itself–

Note: My thanks to Michael and for his time. Good luck to Paul as he surely keeps “alive” in the race even after all the other candidates have dropped out and Mitt Romney is declared the winner.