"If you look at the numbers and the way pure democracy works, pure democracy is dangerous.
The majority dictates against the minority. Right now the majority are receiving a check.
That is why people were sort of surprised with these conditions that the president could get reelected. That is a bad sign in that there are more on the receiving end.
People do not want anything cut. They want all the bailouts to come. They want the Fed to keep printing money.
They do not believe we of gone off the cliff or are close to going off the cliff. They think we can patch it over, that we can somehow come up with a magic solution. You cannot have a budgetary solution if you do not change what the role of government should be.
As long as you think we have to please the world and run this welfare state, all we will argue about is who will get the loot.
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- Ron Paul on election 2012
I can see the point of this.
A lot of economy is faith-based.
Faith that the government check will arrive on the first and fifteenth, faith that there will be restocked shelves in the stores, faith the lights will stay on, etc, etc.
It would break down in an instant without blind faith and people droning on about budgets and debt are not going to make people even look up from their soma and Honey Boo Boo, much less shake their faith in anything.
Ron Paul admits the truth in his farewell speech to the House
"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example." - Justice Louis Brandeis
"The State has suddenly and quietly gone mad. It is talking nonsense and it can't stop." - G.K. Chesterton