A Message of Love for America
Submitted by Robin Koerner on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 16:07 Bio | Blog | bluerepublican.org | watchingamerica.com
It is often said that a convert to a cause is more fervent than those born to it. That is probably true about me and my "conversion" as an immigrant to this great country.
In that spirit of passionate desire for my adoptive land to become everything it was meant to be, may I humbly suggest, America, that Ron Paul is Your Man.
Just a few years ago, I was excited to follow Obama's success in the hope that he would undo the worst of the un-American shenanigans of the Bush administration, including the abrogation of rights of American citizens, the killing of citizens of lands that don't threaten us and the wholesale transfer of wealth from those that create it and play by the rules to those that do neither of those two things.
Perhaps I was a little caught up in the excitement, but my intentions were good.
As it has turned out, in most things that matter, Obama is not even Bush-lite: he's more like Bush-plus. I'm not questioning his moral intent, but simply looking around me at new wars, continuation of laws that remove Americans' basic rights, mass transfer of wealth from the working man to the large subsidized groups, including financial corporations and unions, that fund the old political game.
The old, tired, self-defeating left-right paradigm of American politics is about two teams that want to shape the world in one way or another, but both sharing the desire to impose their view on others, and both, therefore, with an interest in maintaining those fundamental aspects of the modern political settlement that allow politicians and their favored institutions to operate outside the most basic confines of the Constitution that was supposed to make the USA a Republic that protects life, liberty and property of all individuals.
Indeed, the two-party system, and all the unstated assumptions shared by both sides, does more to undermine practically the principles gifted by the nation's Founding Fathers than any other single political structure in the USA (except perhaps the Federal Reserve, which acts secretly and without political accountability).
Ron Paul transcends the left-right pseudo-divide.
He is almost unique in that he doesn't want to make a country of the left or a country of the right. Unlike every other politician, he doesn't need me to agree with him on anything -- except that I should be free to decide on what to agree or disagree with him about.
Ron Paul's world is quite different from that offered by almost any other American politician. In his world, neither the president nor the Congress gets to impose their preferences on 300 million citizens through the monopoly of force that is government, because Paul knows that the government has no such authority. Paul's world is a world based fundamentally on the principle of non-aggression, which is simply, "I may disagree with you but I do not get to use force, including the force of law, to impose my will on you as long as you harm no one." This principle is a philosophical one. It precedes politics -- and that is why it allows Paul to transcend the bankrupt left-right paradigm.
It is this true freedom that, paradoxically (given how most of us disagree about most things) promotes true unity, as division arises only when some people feel imposed upon by others. The promise of a more united nation under Obama (remember?) came to nothing, because Obama's politics, like Bush's, are as much about promoting a particular kind of world, which inevitably benefits some at the expense of others.
Ron Paul is one man who doesn't want to do that, because America was not created for that purpose.
Moreover, if one were to score American politicians on a) integrity, b) philosophical understanding of humanity and governance, and c) understanding of economics by looking at their speeches, votes, books and predictions, Paul would be among America's Very Best.
The huge movement behind Paul is demographically diverse, and has attracted people who used to think that they were on the left, as well as people who used to think they were on the right -- before they found out that what really matters, and what America was designed to preserve, is bigger than both left and right.
But here is the most unlikely, telling, astonishing, and ignored fact about Ron Paul: Paul's campaign logo (one of a few created spontaneously by his supporters for his 2008 run) has the word LOVE in it.
It actually has the word LOVE, picked out in big red letters from the word "Revolution." "Love Revolution," no less.
Politics based on Love?! Can you imagine any Western politician putting that in a speech and not having his or her audience shift in their seats uncomfortably at the strangeness of what they were hearing?
And yet, there it is, "LOVE," right in the middle of his logo in big red letters.
Love is expansive, accepting, free. It is also kind. (When did you last hear that word in politics?) Love says to its object, "As you wish," and a Paul presidency would say to its citizens just that: "It's not government's job to decide for you. Your life should be as you wish."
Now, that is true "free love," 2012 style.
As I ache to see America become the nation that was always meant to be, since 2012 will be the last American presidential election that I will not be permitted to vote in, I can only hope that my adoptive countrymen will take their astonishing opportunity to choose not just a political revolutionary, but also a philosophical one.
In electing Paul, Americans have the chance to say to each other, live and let love -- a politics of non-aggression in its profoundest sense.
(Taken from an article published last year.)
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Reason, Love and Freedom
Reason, Love and Freedom - the holy trinity to a libertarian.
Reason must be present to have Love. Reason and Love must be present to produce Freedom.
Ron Paul brings Reason to add to our Love and we all will produce Freedom.
Robin you are a true revlovelutionary!
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Loving Eloquence
That was magnificent and beautiful. And more, it is true.
Love unites us all in the experience of the best of what it is to be human.
And you are my brother, wherever you may be from, or whatever your passport says.
And with these words, you have contributed more than your vote ever will.
Thank you.
Wow!
Just wow! Bump
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. - Heinlein
OH LORDY...that Brit can
OH LORDY...that Brit can write!
Thank you Robin for another inspiring post!
be who you is, 'cause if you be who you ain't then you ain't who you is ~ from a gravestone in Tombstone, AZ
Koerner
bringing his A-game to the Daily Paul. We're all better patriots because of it.
Thanks Robin!
"It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
--Samuel Adams
Beautiful Robin
Will share this one (like all the others).
+1 It's also all about preserving the Uniqueness of America
Great post, and I agree, though I'd go one step further :
it's about a Message of Love for the Uniqueness of America.
Just sharing my personal findings on how America has been unique and seen as such, from long ago, ever since its very beginnings :
Twenty-three years ago I was graduating from high school.
This wasn't just another random year 1989 to spend living in my country, obviously : this was also the bicentennial of the French Revolution.
As (most of) us highschoolers were so busy preparing ourselves for our final highschool "Baccalaureat" diploma, entrance door to a hopefully good continuation in university colleges, or special advanced classes in engineering, financial, or commerce, or etc, schools, more or less well founded rumors were flying, as usual, about what the traditionally feared subjects of the Philosophy Essay/Dissertation or Commentary exam could be.
Philosophy has traditionally been taught only in that last highschool year leading to that Baccalaureat final exam.
The french students also always have had a love-hate relationship with that matter that one can bind so easily, so naturally, to the debates or controversies of the time in the french society.
That year 1989, with its celebrations of the French Revolution bicentennial was no exception.
Once again, people's minds in France found themselves divided between roughly two or three "camps" :
those who would show an indefectible support to every single value and past event of the French Revolution;
those who would question strongly or even oppose themselves to whatever final assessment they'd make out of what the Revolution had brought in, or removed from the french society;
those who would not really care that much or would just fallback on the prudent point of note that speaking about the "recent" history of the country is always somewhat risky and partial.
Anyway, as Philosophy was really not "my matter", I had to make some extra effort to not hit the wall too hard once I'd be confronted by the Philosophy paper subject dropped in front of me and that I'd have to cope with during four hours straight, possibly for the only time in my life.
While documenting myself on satellite papers or books dealing with that French Revolution we would be showered with for years in junior high and highschool, but this time from a higher level of point of view, I had the idea to try look for some foreign references / thoughts about this major event of my country's history.
(Just in case the French Revolution would appear as one or more of the proposed subjects for 1989's)
AND... This was my first encounter with this AMAZING text from Edmund Burke, who had written it after a frenchman he would correspond with by mail had asked him about his kind thoughts on what was happening in France at that time.
Thus, I read a french translation of Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France".
It was the first time I was reading such a deeply well-thought, foreseeing, all in all utterly interesting take on that part of our history, and from a wise man of a foreign country which would coincidentally and traditionally be our French Kings' "Best Ennemy" (and that the French Revolution had supposedly gotten rid of, more or less peacefully ... rather less than more...)
As far as I can recall, none of my french teachers had EVER told us about Burke's writings on our Revolution.
Still, Burke had seen it all coming :
in these reflections, Burke had predicted the awfully violent "Terror Period" (aka "The Reign of Terror" [*]) yet to come, out of the politician games, then alliances/lobbyings, then secret deals between the most left wing evil demagogues and corrupt, opportunistic nobles or merchants founding those thugs.
[*] The Terrorists in that DARKEST hour of our French Revolution, were either INSIDERS, or ALREADY IN CONTROL, and with inhumane powers over the country and the People -- and my own (humble) theory is that, in History, the TRUE terrorism over a People is coming from the INSIDE, from some who are ALREADY in charge, and it is actually the MOST common case, for it comes SO MUCH in handy for the Ultimate, Secret Goal : TOTAL Deception and TOTAL Enslavement of the People.
Indeed, at some point, people like Babeuf, Robespierre, et al, implemented the seeds of what would be later the large scale mind control of those other Evils such as Hitler or Staline, in their appeal of hatred of minorities, in their group classifications, to force their greed of power into their victim People.
Hitler, Staline they have invented NOTHING : they only have been temporarily "successful" with Advanced Ideas in Deception that had been thought 100+ years BEFORE their time.
They have only REUSED those, for their own specific aims, purposes, agenda... and in context of their People's society.
Thus, they would be trying, from 1792 and on, to steal the purest and pacifist ideals of the greatest French minds had for their People years before La Prise de la Bastille, to fight against unfair Kings or Tyrans and establish a Republic based, for one of the main values, on Liberty.
Back to our last 20th and 21st centuries...
Twenty-three years later, after our 1789-to-1989 bicentennial :
I am not surprised to recall and see again that the same Edmund Burke who had warned my People against the threat of big and centralized Corrupvernment ( = Corruption + Government ) while not trying to discourage them totally in their hopes for a better, more fair french society based upon a Republic ...
... was the same Great Wise Man who had, ALSO, years before, warmly advocated (probably mostly-ALONE and for long...)
FOR ...
the cause of the American Revolutionaries :
You, America, This Unique Land of Liberty the french had also appealed for, in France, for themselves, in the same beginnings !
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One of the best cases for Ron
One of the best cases for Ron Paul that I've read. This is really moving. I'm passing this on.
exactly right
exactly right
Thank you Robin
What a beautiful message, it gave me chills :)
Thank you for sharing this.
It's love for my country and love for my children, grandchildren and great-grandson that motivates me to support Ron Paul. How could I just sit idly by and watch them lose the civil liberties and freedom that I was fortunate enough to grow up with? Love is the strongest motivator of them all.
The BEST of the BlueRepublican spirit expounded.
You are a man for force. . . through love. . . Robin K. Thanks for being with us!
Here's hoping that future immigrants
as well as native Americans will have a similar epiphany and work with us to make this country truly the Land of the Free, with LOVE as the watchword.
Hello Robin
Happy Valentines,
Thank you for writing such a wonderful article! I love my fellow liberty loving Americans that are restoring America.
And I LOVE you and my fellow Ronulans (term from Doug Wead, hehe)!
Cheers
"If we lose freedom here there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth." -Ronald Reagan
When they took us off the Gold Standard they took away our money... in order to make it theirs. -OneTinSoldier