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College Students and Ron Paul: My Story

January 24, 2012

Let me be honest with you. Are you ready? Okay, I voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Now, before you cut me down or stop reading this post, stay with me. I was an almost typical college student, not the partying and such but the ideology and brain washed one. Professors love to talk to college students and “sway” them. But see, I was at a very, very conservative college when the election of 2008 was going on. But the friends I had there were not the conservative ones.

Also, I am very influenced by people. I have tried to get over that and lately have gotten a lot better, but back in the day I was influenced very easily by people with their own personal views. I was not influenced with drugs, alcohol, and the like, but ideologies, theologies, and other views. This caused me to quickly jump on the Obama train and turn into a liberal before I really knew what I was getting myself into. (But of course who can’t love Obama’s awesome rhetoric and speaking during the campaign, haha!)

But, this year I’ve began to think about things. I do not consider myself a republican at all. I don’t agree with the neo-cons that call themselves republicans in today’s election. I refuse to vote again just to vote or vote for someone I really really do not want to keep Obama out.

Liberty is one important thing that America has been on the verge of possibly losing (at least some) because of several laws that are being passed in Congress and signed by the President. Our Constitution is all about liberty and freedom. We split from England because of freedom and liberty.

Ron Paul brings this back to us. He is a Constitutionalist. Everyone says they do not like him because of his foreign policy and his “isolationist” views. They let all of that hold them back. Now, I love his foreign policy. He is not isolationist, he wants us to defend our land. But, he does not believe we should be “world police”. People are AFRAID of Ron Paul’s somewhat “radical” views. Why is it so radical?

Could it be radical because we have gotten so far off course in our country that it seems radical to come back?

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