Before I knew anything about Ron Paul I said, "Hey, he's isolationist and that doesn't sound that bad." Then I found out he wanted to the abolish the Federal Reserve and I said, "Holy crap!" Then I found out he wanted the gold standard back and I said, "Whoa!" Then I found out was a racist bastard he is: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/08/ron-paul-newsletters and I say, "Stay the Hell away from this guy."
Libertarianism is often a comfy little foil for racism and that's what this appears to be in the case of Ron Paul. I know first hand that many libertarians are in favor of small government as a way of hurting ethnic minorities and think that we should be isolationist because they don't want us to attempt to help countries that are predominantly non-white. A lot of their protectionist policies are often racist towards Latin Americans and Asians in their motivations. They insult the quality of the products from overseas assuming that no non-Caucasian could possibly build anything of quality. I know this line of thinking because while working in retail I heard some of the most absurd anti-Asian racism from people who were unhappy with Chinese or Malaysian-produced products.
Make no mistake, the desire to "protect American industry" "shrink government" and "return to the Constitution" is a neat little foil to obscure bigotry, racism, and prejudice.
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