Ron Paul Warns America's "On The Verge Of Something Like 1989's Soviet System Collapse"

Authored by Damir Mujezinovic via Inquisitr.com,

Ron Paul does not believe the U.S. will break into separate countries, like the Soviet Union did, but expects changes in the U.S. monetary policy, as well as the crumbling of the country's "overseas empire."

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The godfather of the Tea Party movement and perhaps the most prominent right-leaning libertarian in America, Ron Paul, believes the economic boom the United States experienced under President Trump could be a “bit of an illusion.”

Mr. Paul sees inequality, inflation, and debt as real threats that could potentially cause a turmoil.

“the country’s feeling a lot better, but it’s all on borrowed money” and that “the whole system’s an illusion” built on corporate, personal, and governmental debt.

“It’s a bubble economy in many many different ways and it’s going to come unglued,”

In a recent interview with the Washington Examiner, Paul said,

“We’re on the verge of something like what happened in ’89 when the Soviet system just collapsed. I’m just hoping our system comes apart as gracefully as the Soviet system.

 

We have ownership of these countries, but it’s not quite like the Soviets did. I think our stature in the world and our empire will end, and that’s when, hopefully, the doors will be open.”

The crumbling of America’s “overseas empire,” as Mr. Paul calls it, could be a chance for the libertarian movement to captivate the country’s imagination by 2020.

The fact that the system is coming apart could be a big opening for the libertarians, Paul claims. However, it is not just Trump administration’s foreign policy that could play a part in this.

“I think the foreign policy is a total disaster. Trump’s approach sounds good one day but the next day he’s antagonizing everyone in the world and thinks we should start a war here and there," he said.

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The former politician and host of the popular Ron Paul Liberty Report podcast has been a vocal critic of the NSA’s surveillance program, the USA PATRIOT Act, the War on Drugs, and the government’s fiscal policies as a whole. Interestingly, the topic of one of Mr. Paul’s recent podcasts was bitcoin.

“The government, for its own reasons, monopolized the creation of money. Money originated in the marketplace. Let people sort it out,” he says.

Apart from criticizing Donald Trump, the “Tea Party’s Brain,” as some journalists have called him, criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Mr. Paul considers Sessions to be a threat to civil liberties. According to Paul, Trump’s foreign policy is a “total disaster,” as well as the war on terrorism and the “war on immigrants,” as Mr. Paul puts it. He went as far as calling these policies authoritarian-fascism. 

The former U.S. Representative, author, and physician is cautiously optimistic about the future of the libertarian movement. Although he sees Trump’s policies and what he predicts to be the imminent crumbling of the American economy and the country’s overseas empire as an opening for the libertarians, he admits that the movement has a lot of work to do before American voters accept a true libertarian. Still, Paul thinks having a popular candidate in 2020 is very possible.

“We as libertarians have some work to do before [voters] are going to accept a true-blue libertarian,” he said, “but I think moving in that direction and having a popular candidate [in 2020] is very possible.”

"If they only hear our message, I know they would choose liberty and sound money and freedom and peace over the mess we have today,"

In the 2016 election, third parties faded to the background. The Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States, Gary Johnson, won 3 percent of the vote, outperforming the 2012 results when he won 0.9 percent.

 

 

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shitshitshit LooneyGhost Dec 29, 2017 3:35 PM

 hey both suckers above, we don't care about your meaningless participation that could frankly be ignored. Besides Ron Paul is a true American patriot who deserves respect from everyone including Russians and Chinese. He's one of the last Americanos who still remember the sense of the word honor. A rare occurrence by those days. 

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ReturnOfDaMac BennyBoy Dec 29, 2017 3:20 PM

Ding ding ding!  A winner.  That and that alone is why nothing will change.  The filthy rich will get even filthier and the poor will continue to be stomped in the ground, maybe with the boot twisting a little on 'em at the bottom.

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Endgame Napoleon tripletail Dec 29, 2017 2:36 PM

He is right about an opening for a new party, and he is right that economic inequality is stoking instability. But his assertions that opposition to mass-scale, illegal, welfare-buttressed immigration is a “war on immigrants” is wrong and not too libertarian.

There is nothing libertarian about government paying the rent and food bills of immigrants, while handing them refundable child tax credits if ip to $6,444 that equal 1/3rd of the per-capita income of citizens across many states, including his state of Kentucky, with its rock-bottom per capita income of $18,093.

Kentucky — per capita income — $18,093

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kentucky_locations_by_per_capit…

 

The Swamp is controlling inequality, like the Fed controls the money supply, by pumping up the income of single moms and immigrants with more monthly welfare and tax welfare per birth, when they stay below the earned-income limit for welfare. For the most part, the now 62% majority of unwed moms and illegal immigrants are not the groups who are likely to cause unrest.

It is a stupid and unfair-to-the-max way to undermine citizenship with the welfare state, making citizenship meaningless, so yes, the whole concept of citizenship is breaking down, especially when rent takes more than half of monthly income for citizens without unearned income for womb productivity who are often men. 

It goes beyond basic rights. Low-income immigrants in this country — legal and illegal — are treated better than citizens, assuming their women’s wombs are productive and the sole, male breadwinners stay below the earned-income limit for welfare. They are treated better than citizens with earned-only income.

I do not think Deplorables will cast votes mainly on foreign policy anything. They cannot afford to.

 

https://fairus.org/press-releases/new-fair-study-illegal-immigration-co…

 

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/10/chi…

 

https://cis.org/Child-Tax-Credits-Illegal-Immigrants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Endgame Napoleon chubbar Dec 29, 2017 2:49 PM

Actually, most Americans do not watch the MSM at all. They have a limited viewership, but likely voters probably watch them in greater numbers.

They are less like a state-owned media and more like an oligatchy-owned media, a corporate-controlled press that says whatever is good for business.

I am not anti business at all. I had a small shop for awhile. But I prefer ZH, because while socialism always ends like Venezuela, with a bunch of unpalatable consumer choices that cost too much and political repression, businesses are so unequal in this country, the USA, that there is really not much freedom in self employment.

The government rigs the system for some businesses, making it close to impossible for Main Street to compete with big boxes unless they have very deep pockets and a lot of cash flow to begin with, just like government rigs workplaces for child-tax-credit and welfare-bolstered employees who do not need a wage sufficient to cover rent. 

The whole system is rigged, and some parts of American foreign policy were flawed for sure. But if libertarians are counting on Deplorables to vote in the interests of foreign countries who have been so mistreated by Americans, I doubt that theme will work. 

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overbet HRH of Aquitaine 2.0 Dec 29, 2017 2:29 PM

When you hear something repeated over and over you are being programmed. This is the power msm still has. While many are waking up plenty still believe them or their subconscious minds get programmed to retain just enough bits of misinformation to make a difference. Lets not forget the social media take over of information flow and the extreme bias they have with their selective censorship. Information is power so the ability to harness that and control the information is probably the greatest weapon ever created. 

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HRH of Aquitaine 2.0 overbet Dec 29, 2017 2:33 PM

Yes, I fully understand the power of the MSM to program people. Thankfully many people are ditching cable. It is something that only the old fogies will still watch (and pay for). However the grip of the MSM on the minds of the populace grows weaker with each passing day.

Does anyone take anything posted on Fuckbook or Twatter seriously? Not if you have an IQ that is greater than room temperature!

I grow weary having to deal with ignorant people. I simply don't expect them to show up here.

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Endgame Napoleon overbet Dec 29, 2017 3:03 PM

The MSM are trying to be programmers without studying hard like programmers. They are feeding us these narratives, over and over and over and over and over, attempting to make us learn it — robot style — like we are Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is one more reason to call them the Fake News Media (FNM). There should be a wikipedia page for this acronym. 

Oh, there is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news

This is a good synopsis of the FNM ethos. It is from Claire Wardel’s list: 

‘misleading content ("misleading use of information to frame an issue or an individual")’

 

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Endgame Napoleon laser Dec 29, 2017 3:09 PM

Why not? Trump won by dominating Twitter and Breitbart, and ZH probably helped, too. The FNM is not a monolith. Trump also used them. Remember his hilarious entry into the race, staging an infomercial, using his Trump Steaks and Trump Water as his credentials to the holier-than-though snobs on the MSM? Much more than people think, Trump won on the issues, but stuff like that did endear him to Deplorables. 

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Endgame Napoleon Shemp 4 Victory Dec 29, 2017 3:14 PM

Can we put the South with the Third World countries where its per-capita income proves it belongs, with its assortment of gated McMansion communities likewise proving the point.  

Kentucky — per capita income — $18,093

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kentucky_locations_by_per_capit…

 

Tennessee — per capita income — $19,393

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tennessee_locations_by_per_capi…

 

Alabama — per capita income — $18,189

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alabama_locations_by_per_capita…

 

Mississippi — per capita income — $20,670 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mississippi_locations_by_per_ca…

 

South Carolina — per capita income — $18,795

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_South_Carolina_locations_by_per…

 

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GRDguy Dec 29, 2017 1:56 PM

The one thing most people ignore is the fact that JPMorgan, Goldman-Sachs, Citi, and others all have offices in United States, Europe, Russia and China, etc.  They do not fight each other; but when financial sociopaths decide to pull the credit plug on a country, that's it.  They practiced on Zimbabwe, Greece, Venezuela, etc.  They're the ones who pulled the plug on Russia, too. Ron knows that, too.

Consuelo GRDguy Dec 29, 2017 2:23 PM

 

 

Mr. Putin knows this, too...

 

Like Mr. Paul, Mr. Putin also is very cognizant of what happened in the immediate aftermath of 1989 - the $looting of his home country by Western banking & financial interests and the follow up color-revolutions to ensure that Russia remained 'Yeltsin-ed' and stayed on its knees in deference to the PNAC doctrine...

 

I think it would be an understatement to suggest that this is in fact, a New Day on the geopolitical stage, which bears little resemblance to the period of Yeltsin...

 

 

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MusicIsYou Dec 29, 2017 1:58 PM

A soviet union style collapse of the U.S will be ugly because Americans have a complacency in the state taking care of them that Russians did not have.