Whenever someone tells me they're supporting Ron Paul

10th January 2012

Post reblogged from Do I smell mutual aid? with 767 notes

Whenever someone tells me they’re supporting Ron Paul

rabbleprochoice:

I just sit here thinking, “Oh, DO you? Because Ron Paul doesn’t give a fuck about anyone who isn’t white, rich, or male.”

Also, he is a flat out racist. And blames people with AIDS for getting it in the first place and feels they should be denied treatment since it was “their choice” to get the illness in the first place. Because as we all know, children with AIDS choose that for themselves.

Ron Paul is who young, white, male republicans who don’t think they are republicans or who don’t want to associate themselves with republicans vote for.

You cannot have states legislate the rights of the people living in that state. That’s why they are RIGHTS; everyone is supposed to have them. Not some people living in this state or that state. IT DOESN’T WORK LIKE THAT. And it’s not worth sacrificing reproductive rights, civil rights, and LGBTQ rights all for the legalization of pot.

Love,

Rabble

*round of applause*

Why I think Ron Paul is an archaic ass whom I would NEVER support.

Yep, Ron Paul is just like every Republican candidate out there in how much of an ass he is. Sure, he wants pot decriminalized at the federal level and wants the wars ended but look at his reasons.

He supports the decriminalization of pot because of states rights, not because it makes no sense to have it criminalized or because it was only criminalized to prevent industrial hemp from threatening the lumber industry. Instead of decriminalizing it across the board he’d still support states making it illegal leaving us with a condition where leaving your state with a legal substance could get you imprisoned in another state and based on his past positions you wouldn’t have any recourse to the Supreme Court of the United States either.

Similarly, his stance on the war isn’t because these wars are wrong and we never should have started them but out of an extremist sense of nationalism and isolationism. Sure, he’d get us out of these interminable wars but the cost would be a President with a policy of not helping foreign nations in times of need either. Remember how bad the devastation in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti was? Now imagine how much worse it would have been, how many more lives would have been lost had we had a president who wouldn’t send aid due to an isolationist foreign policy?

Meanwhile in 2005 Ron Paul sponsored the We the People Act which would have prohibited all federal courts from hearing cases on abortion, same-sex unions, sexual practices, and establishment of religion. Under this act if Texas wanted to prosecute you for having sex with another woman, or me for having sex with a man, or even for you giving a guy a blowjob you would have no recourse to the SCOTUS for an appeal. Similarly, if Georgia or Utah criminalize miscarriage (as they have tried, forcing women to prove that their miscarriages were accidental and not abortions) women put in jail for this would be stuck with no recourse to the Federal Courts. This would also allow Texas to enforce their standing provision that any elected official has to “acknowledge existence of a Supreme Being” effectively banning atheists from holding office in a gross example of religious discrimination. It would also allow for states to force religious education on children in their schools or teach creationism instead of evolution. Add this in to his support of DOMA and it becomes clear that Ron Paul supports States Rights but not Human Rights or Individual Liberty.

Similarly, Ron Paul has introduced the Sanctity of Life Act 4 times. This act would define life as beginning at conception at the federal level effectively overturning Roe V. Wade. Under this Act any state could render an abortion a criminal offense and if Virginia wants to jail a 14 year old rape victim for getting an abortion they would be allowed to. Ron Paul, like most Republicans, wants government just small enough to shove it up your uterus.

He also opposes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and under his ideology not only would Jim Crow laws have continued but they could very well be reinstated. Ron Paul’s ideology dictates that if a business or state wants to discriminate based on race then they should be able to.

Of course, his ideological desire to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Education are also idiotic and would only serve to impoverish our nation by leaving corporations freer to pollute then they already are taking a toll on the health of American citizens while reducing education standards and allowing the children of some states to receive sub-standard educations.

In short, a vote for Ron Paul is a vote against personal liberty and human rights. You can support a Nationalist, Isolationist, Dogmatic old fool who supports a States right to discriminate against you if you really want to but the above reasons are while I will always speak out against him.

Source: rabbleprochoice

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Whenever someone tells me they’re supporting Ron Paul

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