This from Lew Rockwell:
In 2008 I was a Ron Paul delegate to the State of Washington convention. It was a strange circumstance that got me there, but there I was. I did not have my hopes and reams crushed simply because I expected nothing good to happen. What it did teach me is the locus of evil in our society is the political parties. Associating with the parties is to give power to those who use violence to maintain power.
In no other place have I ever seen such venality, lying, cheating and violence, always threat treat of violence.... It was sad to see the pudgy young men, with a grin and sneer, talking over shenanigans with older fellows, usually lawyers, the older men making suggestions, the younger nodding in ready agreement. What position women play at these conventions is limited to supine.
Whoever paid off the driver to get lost will always have a good paying job, but will now be asked to perform ever dirtier tricks... it is a downward spiral, which starts off with a funny thing and then gets awful.
The parties and the politics is the mechanism by which people give up their power to others, in direct contradiction to the will of God. (See 1 Samuel 8) It is why our problems cannot get solved, because we do not want to solve them ourselves.
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"Properly elected Ron Paul delegates were stripped from us. And when a motion was made to amend the Credential Committee's report, it was ignored. Morton Blackwell, a longtime conservative activist and RNC Rules Committee expert, found himself indefinitely detained -- along with the rest of the Virginia delegation.
The RNC bus driver responsible for transporting delegates somehow 'got lost' for well over an hour until a critical Rules Committee meeting adjourned. [The new rules adopted by that committee] are designed to make the Republican Party a top-down organization and strip power away from state parties and grassroots activists of every stripe. All efforts to vote down these onerous rules were ignored . . . "
There is a slice in every generation of activists who hope to make the world a better place. They get their hopes and dreams smashed, and then go on to something else, good or bad.In 2008 I was a Ron Paul delegate to the State of Washington convention. It was a strange circumstance that got me there, but there I was. I did not have my hopes and reams crushed simply because I expected nothing good to happen. What it did teach me is the locus of evil in our society is the political parties. Associating with the parties is to give power to those who use violence to maintain power.
In no other place have I ever seen such venality, lying, cheating and violence, always threat treat of violence.... It was sad to see the pudgy young men, with a grin and sneer, talking over shenanigans with older fellows, usually lawyers, the older men making suggestions, the younger nodding in ready agreement. What position women play at these conventions is limited to supine.
Whoever paid off the driver to get lost will always have a good paying job, but will now be asked to perform ever dirtier tricks... it is a downward spiral, which starts off with a funny thing and then gets awful.
The parties and the politics is the mechanism by which people give up their power to others, in direct contradiction to the will of God. (See 1 Samuel 8) It is why our problems cannot get solved, because we do not want to solve them ourselves.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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