Ron Paul: 'How to Sell Liberty (1990)'

Source:CSPAN- U.S. Representative Ron Paul (Libertarian, Texas) talking about libertarianism in 1990.

“Dr. Ron Paul has been a three-time candidate for President of the United States; as a Libertarian in 1988 and as a Republican in 2008 and 2012. He served for many years as the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 14th congressional district, and is widely known for his libertarian views and his criticism of the federal government’s foreign, domestic, and monetary policies. He is the author of several books including The Case for Gold (1982), A Foreign Policy of Freedom (2007), The Revolution: A Manifesto (2008), and Liberty Defined (2011).

In this video Dr. Paul speaks to a crowd in San Francisco in 1990 at an International Society for Individual Liberty conference. Having run for office under the Libertarian Party’s banner two years prior, Dr. Paul shares his experience on how to sell libertarianism to make it palatable to both liberals and conservatives.”

From Libertarianism.Org 

What supposed to pass as Libertarians and libertarianism in 2012, are essentially right-wing Anarchists who call themselves voluntarists. People who don’t have a role for an organized, publicly financed government to do anything. People who are antigovernment, not anti-big government, but antigovernment all around. People who believe that everything that’s done in society should be done voluntarily with no rules for anything.

What’s supposed as a Libertarian and libertarianism today in 2012, is not what you get from Ron Paul when he was first elected to the U.S. House in 1976, ran for President of the Libertarian Party in 1988, got elected to the House again in 1996, ran for President in 2007-08, and again in 2011-12.

Ron Paul to me is the face of the American Libertarian movement. Perhaps not the father, but you are talking about someone who believes in both personal and economic freedom, just as long as people aren’t hurting any innocent person with what they’re doing. Which is his role for government, which is to protect the innocent from people who hurt them. But not to run anyone’s lives for them, or assist anyone with public assistance when people fall on hard times. Just to protect the people from predators both foreign and domestic.  

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