did but he supports the tennessee williams the fall
numbers
support the candidacy of ron paul or
libertarian
uh... i refer libertarians as republicans who want to smoke dope and
get laid
and uh... i think conventional wisdom is it's the smoke dope in get laid part the
gets all the the young people excited i think that that is
well in fact our guest david schroeder thinks that that's
uh... not only as simplistic but insulting david welcome to the program i
think not
davis wrote it dot concours now you can find all the day was great works easy a
host on in sympathy in denver in the morning as well as a
best-selling author what are your most recent book in fact is
back to our future
and
needs as an insanity columnist so david
tell me why
why would anybody support why would anybody twenty-something arena
thirty-something support ron paul
well i i i want a fully discount what you said about about uh... drug policy
reform run pose for the only candidates is run for president in recent memory
who's got a serious shot of becoming president
who stalked honestly about the drug war and i don't think there's something to
that i think dumb people
uh... in particular understand bet the drug the drug war as it's being
conventionally wages not a good expenditure of resources however
simply playing it just because of of politician on drugs
ignores the
really striking difference that it that's
did that we see in polls in terms of how young people feel about foreign policy
there's a new study out from the pew research center which found that
two-thirds of maligning old those are great between eighteen and twenty nine
years old
say that relying too much on military force to defeat terrorism create the
hatred that leads to more terrorism and this is in stark contrast to
acute older or all of the older generation which has been much more
conventional views on
on foreign policy front paws been one of the only kennedy could not be only
candidate to really make as one of the central parts of his platform
the idea that militarism is not only a little uh... of colossal waste of
resources
but doesn't make a any paper as the country and when you put that up
next to lead on people's views that are much the payment and you start to feel
that
perhaps foreign policy is is a driving force behind why ron paul has had to
followership among young people
so we know we we'd seen
the through our lifetimes i think probably throughout the history of
american politics people voting for candidates on which
uh... you with whom they may disagree on many issues
spend certainly the uh... the history of the modern-day repulsion party is is
people supporting republicans who are going to just economically screw them
because those republicans are that you don't have have appealed successfully to
a single issue whether it's abortion their guns are goddard you know gays or
whatever may be uh...
that this foreign policy issue could be a single issue that would cause young
people to ignore overlook
um...
not take seriously or not even
they're really
stoppin pay careful attention to ron paul's positions on what
the kind of america we would have
setting aside the fact you know if if we stop in empire but
beyond that
yeah i think that we had to get the paper packet we picked up a good people
say well you know uh... young voter mike it was when i grew to my drug policy
reform agreed upon civil liberties
alanna and i really agree with him on foreign policy as well those are the
three pretty big bangs
yeah i i think but i think kind of the to demand that the media has has a
written ron paul's foreign policy views
out of that story because those foreign policy views are so
the partial outside of the political mainstream i think they're well within
the american mainstream but in terms of the political lead in this country
and i think what i think it's really important about ron paul's candidacy
i think there's an argument to be made it
the issue that he is up
particularly in my own personal political perspective good on
i like foreign policy like a civil liberties like drug policy reform
happened to be the very issues but the president has
among the most amount of unilateral control over a president camp alone that
make huge economic policy he needs congress
for better or for worse a president can simply decide that the stroke of a pen
on whether to go to war dot an all-weather ana on how to use federal
law enforcement agencies with respect to civil liberties so i think there may be
a and an understanding a deeper understanding they will listen
you know on the issue that a president can control ron paul taxes not so bad
kerosene and thomas jefferson
nearly brought down the constitution in this battle that he had with alexander
hamilton and others over whether or not
we ship standing armies during time of peace and the the first draft of the
second amendment and here it is letters of madison
you know where he was saying i'm gonna pull the virginia delegation if you
don't do this
um... they were the first draft essentially said there shall be no
standing army during times of peace
in order to protect the public good and or it you know and then the language of
the segment in order to have a well ordered alicia the writer citizens to
bear arms shall not be a bridge
on the idea being that everybody would basically be a member of the national
guard guy thing where they should you know they show up for training for a
week at the year and then
you know the the and in fact george washington had the first mandate was he
had to buy a gun if you're in the militia affected securities industry's
but jefferson
when he came into office here in our meeting was three hundred thousand men
and attorney left office eight years later status six thousand i mean he is
with all the way that army
and because he just
thought it shouldn't exist during times of pc was kind of the ron paul is day in
that regard data and and again i want to be clear and i i i don't subscribe to
ron paul's economic orthodoxy at all
but i do think it's important to ignore it
if specially on matters of war and peace in which ron paul's been so crystal
clear and admit so central to his candidacy
edge jumped to understanding that in the context of the modern american
presidency where those decisions are made
unfortunately in my estimation almost unilaterally by the president himself or
herself st p_e_ it's stands to reason that young people are staying within aya
like either the parties right now i'm not happy with either the party but hey
here's one guy who
israel syria to back it was not a war and he gets if he gets elected he had
the the unilateral authority to do that
the virtually the entire progressive caucus
uh... believe all democrats right now
and and typically always has been
in the house in the senate virtually the entire caucus is
pretty much in line with ron paul's perspective on the war on drugs
and in line with his with his perspective on foreign policy
how does that get
missed by these aren't people
why i don't think it's i don't think it's mister i mean i think the fact is
is that the progressive caucus is very different from the oh by the
administration the obama administration has been
has been uh... uh... uh... as badha in many cases or even worse
than the bush administration on some of these key questions i mean look the bush
administration
apec civil liberties has one example the bush administration asserted the at that
time on president a right to indefinitely detain american citizens
uh... they were accused of terrorism heel balm administration is now asserted
the right to to execute american citizens in the famed innocent end in
the famed circumstances so just a few weeks ago exactly which makes in-depth
at the pet detention seem like a cake walk which is incredible
i think that the we have to that what's going on here is that there is a
separation
right now in the perception of a lot of young people that there is a day of the
democratic party with a different way of the democratic party there's also the
obama administration which is to confirm that
managed the campaign cover-up all the president and all those things are very
different in that sense i guess we have left to do you think the ron paul run as
a libertarian defeated diseases when he's is involved in a nation
by self inflicted with private life great i think frankly what
complex over his ill let's do this sort of thing is true that i found think the
defense