By: Jack Synten

Since James Kirchick’s 2008 discovery of Ron Paul old (though not that old) newsletters from the nineties, Paul has been back-tracking quite a bit. His newsletters expose Paul’s tendencies towards the conspiratorial, as he espouses ideas that a “race war” is soon to begin, the IRS is going to send agents to people’s house with AK-47s, and how the federal government was involved in a lengthy cover-up of AIDS. Reading some of his newsletters, one of which is at the bottom of this page, it’s hard to believe that Paul is running for a presidential nomination.

While many are calling Ron Paul the best among a bad batch of GOPers, it seems to be the other way around. Romney and Gingrich look mild compared to the immense ineptitude of Paul’s racist, anti-homosexual, anti-government rhetoric. In fact, it’s listening or reading anything of Paul’s it’s hard to wonder why he is even a part of the federal government if he mistrusts it so much. But of course these are back-burner social issues, and the key points of this upcoming election will be the economy. Even in this department, though, Ron Paul seems unable to find a sensible position that will help.

Instead, in one of his arguments he declared that the federal government was behind a plot to create “New Money”—”totalitarian money” that would allow the government to trace and control using chemical tracking methods. Reading his newsletters it’s hard to believe this man finished college much less is actually running for president.

Considering that Paul has been in the House of Representative catering to the ideology of his Texas district, it’s not surprising that he might get carried away with pandering to parts of Texas’ odd anti-governmental, racist tendencies. In fact, by the end of the newsletter, it appears that Ron Paul wrote it purely to raise money, ironic considering much of the letter he spends renouncing American money in a conspiratorial rant.

While many are stating that Paul is the best man for the GOP nomination to go up against Obama, it should be the other way around: Ron Paul just shouldn’t be a politician. The Founding Fathers of the United States knew there would be people like Paul and tried to establish barriers to keep them miles away from ever touching political office due to their insidious nature, but Texas has slowly tried, and at times succeeded, in striping away the ideal government the Founding Fathers had in mind.

But back to Paul’s economic beliefs: he is a strict proponent of the Austrian School of economics, which proposes a stringent individualism on the praxis of illogical business cycle models that would require irrationality of investors to circulate capital based on false precepts which many economists have since called flat-out wrong. It is simply dangerous to give Paul any more power than he already does with regards to the economy.

And while some claim that his ideas of ending any and all federal control over the States’ rights make him an ideal candidate, he seems to completely ignored the foundations of what America was founded on, a balance between State and Federal governments, not all-out self-regulating State governments acting in disharmony with one another and not an all-out totalitarian Federal government, but rather a mixture so that the States would act in harmony and concert with one another. Sure, plenty of people can think of how the Federal government has become so pervasive in an individual’s life, but those people have two things wrong: 1) the Federal government is not that pervasive and it’s ridiculously and laudably conspiratorial to think so, and 2) if the State governments were to self-regulate, then there’s a good chance that many of the progressive legislation passed by federal mandates would dissipate and we as a country would recede several thousand steps from where we were as a society.

How’s it a revolution when it looks more like recidivism?

Read this letter from Ron Paul addressed to ‘Fellow Americans.’