Ron Paul supporter: “we can make the thought reality”

This stomach-churning post tells the tale of a Ron Paul supporter desperately trying to reconcile his support of Ron Paul with the disgusting Ron Paul newsletters. It contains a series of screen shots of one person’s posts. He’s quoted the people he’s arguing with so it’s clear that there are some actual reality-based Ron Paul supporters.

None of this takes away from the good points of Libertarianism.  When David Duke ran for Governor, he was saying all the right things.  Things like the welfare system is a train wreck and the projects need to be shut down.  Bill Clinton campaigned on that issue around the same time.  Five years after his election, the GOP Congress got much needed legislation through to reform the welfare system, and Bill Clinton signed it.  Today – and this was in place before Katrina – the New Orleans projects are being replaced with mixed income housing.  Does the fact that overt racist Duke and “America’s first black president” Clinton agreed – at least in public, because it’s clear Clinton was lying about this issue in order to get elected – take away from the very obvious fact that welfare needed to be reformed?  Not at all.  Anyone can take a good idea and promote it, and Ron Paul doesn’t “own” the concepts of libertarianism.  Those concepts don’t stand or fall according to his political success.The process Westbrooke goes through in the post is instructive.  He starts by acknowledging that some of the newsletters were written in first person, and some are signed.  He writes at 7:28pm, “I AM GOING TO BE SICK!!!!!  What do we do?”  After a few drinks, he asks, “What if we are the ones that have been played?  A while back one guy sent me a latter and he said that David Duke ran on the same platform as Dr. Paul, and Duke claimed to be against racism when he ran.”  He wonders how they – meaning the newsletter authors – “got away with it for so long.”

Ten  minutes later he says that if “these people” can manufacture a war and 9/11 then they can also fake these letters.  Someone later points out to him that he’s claiming a conspiracy within a conspiracy, which he defends.  But he acknowledges, “At that, the only theory that isn’t a conspiracy is that these are real.”  By 11:17pm he’s latched onto the idea that the only way out of this is to say the signatures are fake.  He seems to understand that this is a lie, calling it a “line.”  At 9:04am he writes, “Well what else do you suggest then?  We can’t defend the comments based on the first press release, we can’t say it is an isolated incident because they span ten years, we can’t say he didn’t know because apparently other articles were first person messages from him and his family.  We need something to use and it seems claiming they are all faked by TNR is the best approach.”

At 8:58am, Westbrooke gave his reasoning for that approach: “All we got now is the signatures, but the point is to repeat it over and over. we can make the thought reality.”

Commenter Britt points out:

Joseph Goebbels:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it…”

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over”

There’s no question that this is a cult.  Too many Ron Paul supporters seem incapable of separating the man from the ideas.

h/t LGF