tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8831417822102614135.post8613026563522091180..comments2023-12-03T17:13:43.167-06:00Comments on The Regular Guy Believes: Ron Santo, Hall-of-FamerPaul David Bauerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15576594022075483289noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8831417822102614135.post-89671376262798334142011-12-05T14:18:45.181-06:002011-12-05T14:18:45.181-06:00Hi Paul,
Thanks for your post on weirdness. It is ...Hi Paul,<br />Thanks for your post on weirdness. It is what I expected in two ways. First, making a fair assessment of personality you made the obvious judgement that Ron Paul is only weird in being too wholesome to believe. But what is really different about him, is that in midlife, through intellectual curiosity, he began his study of economics and political philosophy, that spurred him to start a political career to right what he perceived were the wrongs of government (i.e., Nixon’s breaking the dollar’s last connection to gold). The second aspect I expected was your uneasiness with his foreign policy positions. I would say that all of the other candidates follow the Washington establishment understanding (including Obama and the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats) of the US role in the world. My judgement is that you essentially also follow that same understanding. I believe, with Ron Paul, that this main stream understanding is more than flawed, but is morally corrupt and destined to lead our country to ruin. Without going into all the detail that would follow an afternoon drinking beer together, first recall this quote (probably due to Rove)<br /><br />"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors.... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'"<br /><br />The arrogance of power, the total contempt for truth, historical, legal, and moral is the stuff of Shakespeare if the actors were not so pathetic (e.g., Lindsey Graham). But of more direct consequence, is that the bureaucratic ineptness of every department of government, and I mean every down to the last small department in the TSA and the Pentagon, with their gross tactical and strategic errors, have already sown the seeds of economic ruin for the country. No other candidate expresses even the smallest understanding of these issues.<br /><br />Unfortunately with pessimism,<br />Ira<br /><br />ps Thanks for your post on Ron Santo. As you know I grew up following those Cubs and so some great games against the Cardinals, who always seemed much better to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com