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Good article that captures the mindset of Ron Paul's internet cult of personality that sparsely exists in real life. Would be very humorous if it weren't sad.
And if a blogger in those days dared to criticize Congressman Paul for, say, taking money from card-carrying neo-Nazis or claiming authorship of a newsletter that talked smack about, oh, black people ("I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in [Washington, D.C.] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal") she was roundly creamed by organized commenters. I know, because this happened to me. I'd give a link to my interrogation of the Paul scene from the waning days of 2007, but it doesn't exist. My editor at the New York Times fully expunged the record after hundreds of Paulians swarmed the site—like bacteria or antibodies—and sowed the comments section with vitriol.
The complete retraction delighted the Paulians. And to their credit, Paulians can bring the bombast. Lew Rockwell, the "anti-state, anti-war, pro-market" blogger wrote ominously at the time: "Those who smear Ron Paul will live to regret it." He went on: "MSM, here are the new rules: no lying, no ridiculing, no suppressing. Remember 'journalistic ethics'? You really have no choice. The Internet rules."
Good article that captures the mindset of Ron Paul's internet cult of personality that sparsely exists in real life. Would be very humorous if it weren't sad.
...dared to criticize Congressman Paul for, say, taking money from card-carrying neo-Nazis
Millions of people donate to candidates and no candidate vets every donor. He kept the money and said that he found it funny that a man would donate to a candidate that holds views that were contrary to those racist views that the donor had. The money was actually better used by Paul in his campaign that spreads the idea that no group or individual deserves special treatment...everyone is an equal.
Good article that captures the mindset of Ron Paul's internet cult of personality that sparsely exists in real life. Would be very humorous if it weren't sad.
It's nice to know a few hundred people with a few clicks of a mouse can exercise our ideas even if you don't agree with them. From those few hundred people they have turned into millions of people starting a wave of new ideas and not just in this country. Those ideas start a political movement that define a generation where they grew up with the internet, they dont watch fox news and cnn and exchange ideas on things that MATTER TO THEM!
So while for now "this cult" will not likely win elections, most of society wil continue on its path of self destruction. So while these so called republicans and democrats pretend to win primaries and elections Ron Paul is winning the future of America. Like so many closed minded uninformed people who write these articles they never see the big picture. The only real life these people want to live in is where wars continue, our nation is broke and the only one who tells us what to think and how to vote is the corporate media and with big government cultist :-)
It's very interesting that in the world of the free press Ron Paul, liberty and economic liberty, social and civil liberty is considered a "cult of personality"
It's nice to know a few hundred people with a few clicks of a mouse can exercise our ideas even if you don't agree with them. From those few hundred people they have turned into millions of people starting a wave of new ideas and not just in this country. Those ideas start a political movement that define a generation where they grew up with the internet, they dont watch fox news and cnn and exchange ideas on things that MATTER TO THEM!
So while for now "this cult" will not likely win elections, most of society wil continue on its path of self destruction. So while these so called republicans and democrats pretend to win primaries and elections Ron Paul is winning the future of America. Like so many closed minded uninformed people who write these articles they never see the big picture. The only real life these people want to live in is where wars continue, our nation is broke and the only one who tells us what to think and how to vote is the corporate media and with big government cultist :-)
It's very interesting that in the world of the free press Ron Paul, liberty and economic liberty, social and civil liberty is considered a "cult of personality"
Well Said.
Haha I love it, the status-quo supporters are becoming fearful! They mock the ideas and discussions of ordinary citizens on the one place where society is in it's most uncensored form but trust all information from Corporately owned Media conglomerates. Makes sense lol.
"First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win."
M. Gandhi.
If the other candidates are so persuasive, so enlightening, and so compelling, why is there no trace of their supporters on the internet?
The internet is an unregulated forum for expressing thought. Unfortunately, I see very few thoughts being expressed by the supporters of the other candidates. Ron Paul may be not be to your liking, or to the liking of the mainstream media, but Paul has at least inspired a significant number of folks to study the issues and develop an informed opinion.
The only way to describe many of the supporters of the other candidates is apathetic at best, or ignorantly acquiescent at worst. Paul's supporters at least have passion about who and what they support. That's more than I can say for the rest of the lot. Their presence (or lack thereof) on the internet and in other places speaks volumes on how much they really care.
Haha I love it, the status-quo supporters are becoming fearful! They mock the ideas and discussions of ordinary citizens on the one place where society is in it's most uncensored form but trust all information from Corporately owned Media conglomerates. Makes sense lol.
"First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win."
M. Gandhi.
Looks like the fighting stage is in its infancy.
The mocking started long ago.
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