As a medical user, I really hope she will stick to this if elected. Trump is doing more “leave it up to the states” bullshit except specifically for Florida and no other state.

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    Ron Paul wasn’t popular because of a racist newsletter. He was popular because the libertarian ideals he espoused were appealing to internet dwellers that hadn’t experienced real life yet.

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      Bit easy to dismiss millions of people because they aren’t cynical or bitter and then equating that to basically being young and dumb. Perhaps reality is what it is because it’s always the Bush’ and Clinton’s, who only marginally affect the status quo, and never the Ron Paul’s, who see inherent issues with the system, or ‘reality’, and at least have somewhat of an inclination to improve it.

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      Man, I’m happy someone else might remember that time on Reddit which I could only call “peak cringe”. Everyone and their mother seemed to love Ron Paul on that site

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        Wasn’t that really the days of Digg? I can’t even remember such eons ago…

        I sadly was one of those duped, hot off of reading Atlas Shrugged no less at a more impressionable time in my life. Thank fuck I crawled my way out.