i had never heard of Ron Paul,
until i heard that someone was trying to censor Ron Paul...
The Streisand Effect kicked in, and so i wanted to hear for myself, what Ron Paul had to say...
and the things that Ron Paul said, kinda blew me away, and it puzzled me greatly as to WHY the media was actively censoring him.
the censorship, un-personing, the de-platforming, was every day.
if there was a TV news poll of leading candidates, Ron Paul's name would "accidentally" get left off the poll.
Ron Paul would be excluded from debates, etc.
They even went so far, as to fabricate a "Santorum Surge" to artificially inflate Rick Santorum's Iowa Caucus poll numbers into 2nd place, as a way to keep Ron Paul out of 2nd place,
but when you go back, and listen to what Ron Paul says, on almost any subject, you will find that he has a very intelligent, well-informed opinion on the matter.
and thats why he was a threat to the establishment,
and thats why he was censored constantly,
and thats why i had never heard of Ron Paul...
I still remember hearing him speak for the first time at some televised primary debate I saw at a local YMCA I had a membership to, in 2007. He was spitting straight up truth like I'd never even heard before. No one talks economic liberty like Ron, not even his son.
Me and the then-girlfriend (now wife) participated in some meetups supporting him in our college. It was during one of these that we realized most of the other people there did not seem to care much about taxes, or the Fed, instead being there to ride the anti-war, and anti-drug-war train.
Granted, we were certainly against foreign military intervention and the war on drugs, but we saw these things as merely side-effects of our authoritarian, confiscatory government, not a political end-goal in itself.
Ron understood this but a lot of his fans at the time did not seem to. That's why I was not at all surprised to see so many Ron Paul supporters in 08/12 become Bernie Bros in 16.
A politician with Ron's brain and Trump's mouth would get elected in a landslide and lead to a thousand year It's Happening/Heaven on Earth.