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In reply to the discussion: Why Ron Paul attracts some liberals. [View all]LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)It has the same effect on minority groups, and on poor people in general.
In fact, the whole 'limited government' viewpoint, when it reaches the point of opposing the provision of public services and social safety nets, is not only mistaken, but UTTERLY EVIL. It is basically saying, 'Let the poor die! Let the weak be trampled on! Let the ill die! Let minority groups go unprotected from oppression and violence!' It is basically turning psychopathy into a political philosophy.
Therefore, I don't really care if Paul is personally racist, etc.; he would give racists the freedom to practice their racism untrammelled, as well as allowing the poor and sick to starve and die.
Of course, all this could be said of most Republicans (when the most moderate of the Republican candidates attacks President Obama for supposedly 'turning America into a Europaean welfare state', this just sums up how vile they all are). But progressives are not expressing any tolerance for the other Republicans, that I can see.
'Extreme free market ideology' is just as destructive in its effects as personal racism and sexism; and *enables* racism and sexism in practice. Moreover, his supposed libertarianism does not stop him from wanting to ban abortion - so clearly it stops where it affects women.