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Another explanation is that it’s human nature to seek the comforts of wealth with the least amount of effort. This desire is quite positive when it inspires efficient work and innovation in a capitalist society. Productivity is improved and the standard of living goes up for everyone. But this human trait of seeking wealth and comfort with the least amount of effort is often abused. It leads some to believe that by certain monetary manipulations, wealth can be increased out of thin air.

In the above statement, Dr. Paul refers to inefficient welfare entitlement programs that are in dire needs of repair. “Efficient work and innovation in a capitalist society” are antithesis to labor unions and entitlement programs.

If he is an intelligent man, which I believe him to be, he understands that creating a gold standard will definitely kill inflation, but in its place will come a deflationary spiral that will continue until it breaks the standard again. Hording, fear, greed and speculation will undoubtedly assure the natural free flow of currency will be disrupted, triggering massive economic dislocations. Especially in an era when borderless micro transactions are possible because of software like Paypal.

These political sound-bites emanating from Rep. Ron Paul’s campaign are what we call unrealistic and/or idealistic positions for a higher purpose. The higher purpose as in Ralph Nader and Ross Perot during the 2000 and 1992 elections, respectively. These are “swing vote ” players designed to split a major pillar of a political party vote.In the case of Ralph Nader, his greater purpose was to take the extreme left, Green vote, which he did successfully making himself not only rich, but a hated man by the greens that feel betrayed today (but that’s a different story).

Perot was there to split the Republican base from the blue blooded, apple pie American middle class sick of decreasing living standards due to cheap foreign labor coming into the country. A policy which led to the cheap labor staying overseas and creating giants out of India and China, as well as many other nations benefiting from demand for their labor.

This was a necessary process required to stabilize a post-communist world. Hard to “stomach”, but is that not what true “pragmatism” is all about?

In 1992, the Soviet Union had just collapsed and it was time to dismantle the American cold war military and industrial machine, which Clinton and the Democrats dutifully accomplished by closing thousands of military bases, dismantling cold war machinery and engaging in aggressive non-proliferation activities including purchasing Russian nuclear weapons on the black market.

Regardless of how much ideological opposition existed at the time, this country prospered economically as crucial cold war technologies such as ARPA NET were released to the public and became the internet as we know it today.

The economic benefits were massive and this was America’s triumph in its hard fought victory for democracy. It was time to divert the massive military budget into social entitlement and infrastructure programs designed to throw America ahead of the rest of the world technologically.

After about eight years, the pendulum was ready to swing again to deal with stresses on the fabric of American expansionism, including a military with extremely low morale and outdated technologies to face the future with. Can you imagine Al Gore having been elected in 2000 just before September 11, 2001 hit this great country? Of course not. With one major opposing ideology disposed off it was time to consolidate America’s power and define the future battle field with their own weaponology rather than waiting to respond to it. Hence the Bush “first strike” policy within their context of “preventative war”.

You can only accomplish the latter by embarking on a long-term period of massive defense entitlement provisioning to prove to the rest of the world that it is futile to embark on military confrontation with America. This has been done during Bush II. And during Clinton II, you will see the final chapter of this four part mini-series.America needed a unilaterally minded foreign policy in order to engage in another round of military exhibitionism designed to dissuade her enemies from even thinking about war. And if America has now discovered technologies to end all wars, perhaps it would be an important display of strength from the first female President of the United States. To use it on an adversary in the Middle East, thereby killing her one single biggest vulnerability, which is that women are not meant to fight wars, would certainly be a desirable outcome.

The Democratic Party is the party groomed to pull off something of the magnitude required to transition trillions of dollars in resources from military to social reform. And Hillary Clinton will implement a universal health care program. Something shamefully missing from the wealthiest nation on Earth.

In 2000, when it was time for America to embark on another quantum leap of military technology, the political machine ensured the correct outcome during an election which was historical for several reasons I need not mention here. Today that same machine is actively preparing the publics’ heart’s and mind’s for the first female President.

This single achievement in the most progressive society in history will for the first time attack the widespread gender apartheid so prevalent in today’s modern society. The most vulnerable point of extremist religions will be attacked head on by a newly energized America as she takes her rightful place as the de facto leader of the free world; a spot the citizens of the rest of the world would like to see America in.

Nader was a very important player that performed his role better than anyone could have hoped, but this was primarily because the people he fooled had big hearts and open minds. This does not mean they will forget and certainly will not forgive anytime soon. The margin of victory for Al Gore would have been enormous and possibly even declared a “landslide victory” had it not been for the diversion of Green ideology, and its votes, to Nader at the expense of Al Gore.

Did you notice how the Nobel price was not enough to compel Al Gore to run? Absolutely not the time right now because the Democrats can pretty much get anyone they run elected, because the pendulum is already swinging but the world is not ready for that type of global radicalism. When it is time to further unite the world into a more co-dependent global society with one over arching body trusted by its citizens to achieve the things it was empowered to do, then will you see America shift far left where the pendulum will reach its apex culminating in a Nobel Peace Prize Recipient as the President of the United States of America.

Look at the supranational systems taking shape in the world today, such as the internet, European Union, World Trade Organization, countless NGO’s, space exploration and environmental preservation. The citizens of this globalized and interdependent society share many concerns that overlap and therefore must be dealt with in a collective manner.

These are the types of multi-national organizational structures needed to carry the world into its new age. And with a new age comes a new world which is not some type of right wing conspiracy by the bankers and weapons makers no matter how many stories pop up trying to validate this straw hat fallacy.

Yes Nader did play an unexpected role, as will Ron Paul, but that is precisely why a swing candidate is floated into the game by the major players. As the world is entranced by the main candidates, the real work is done by the swing vote that splits a large group of voters. Remember, politics is a science of which mastery means guiding the public rather than the other way around.

Ross Perot was the slight margin that guaranteed the path this country took in the eight years prior to 9/11, and Nader was the slight margin that prepared this nation for the post 9/11 political matrix, which served as a catalyst for this nations ideological expansionism. Both of these were highly controlled events designed to keep this nation on the right track.

Although necessary after the collapse of the USSR, the nation was tired of excessive liberal policies but more importantly, the economy was no longer able to sustain a strong US Dollar, which had a lot to do with bankrupting the coffers of the Soviet Treasury at the expense of American exports. The time was ripe for a nice run in with the Sherriff from the bible belt. It was the politicians, and players like Dr. Paul, who assured the right outcome was achieved then, and will do the same now.

War is a necessary evil to rid this society of the concept of war. During the age of power, greed and discrimination, an era that is coming to an end, war dominates history. In its place comes an age of enlightenment, universal communication, labor mobility (which by the way is driven by things like Paypal and micro-lending), one world unity, and the spread of wealth to the masses to continue feeding the consumerism of this society.

Love it or hate it, the capitalist motto of consumerism is what keeps this society functioning.

Militarily, this country has leapt light years ahead of any other power in the world and over the next decade it will focus its energy on innovating in the private sector as once again these former military technologies are passed off into private sector as new gadgets.

With a female President, if you are a “technologist” in any way, then these years are going to be filled with something more incredible than the ’94-’99 years.

The economy wags the tail of the political dog, and the politicians are actors that help guide the public where the economy needs public perception to go. Once you understand that, it’s like you just swallowed the blue pill.

These swing vote strategies are in fact the essence of the political machine, in which the Republican and Democratic party work together in perfect counter-balancing unity.

Dr. Ron Paul is here to split the Republican vote and polarize the extremists. As the fracture in the electorate leads to a shredding of the Republican base, it will guarantee the outcome of the election.

For the Clinton-Obama ticket, Ron Paul is the insurance policy designed to split the Republican vote because the platform he is running on is strong enough to perhaps win him the Republican nomination.

This would definitely be check mate for Clinton-Obama as they would steam roll over Ron Paul in probably the largest landslide in the history of this nation. An event that will capture the hearts and minds of the world as every woman on the planet feels empowered to break the shackles of gender apartheid once and for all.

And with the landslide will come a national mandate for a radical new world to take shape, in the vision of the enlightened America. The outcome is all in the economics of what we are going to need over the next eight years.

Whatever the display of technological prowess is, this country is going to have to figure out what to do with about $500 billion in annual surplus revenues when all these geo-political fires are put out. Although some of that will be mopped up through treasury operations, a huge majority will go towards the same types of programs attempted during Clinton I.

This is how a democracy thrives, through the shared power between ideologically opposed ruling families which come and go with the times as entrepreneurism, creative destruction, and evolution all lead to a constant changing of the guard.

The US needs universal entitlements and must account financially for longer term health care support due to expanding life expectancies. The larger the military budget leading into this transition, the more likelihood the transition will actually work. Besides, the future holds a very big hole to plug in Social Security.

Hillary’s dry run in 1993-1995 was just that, a dry run in preparation for what she is destined to do as President of the United States.

The US also needs to figure out how to regain the hearts and minds of the rest of the world. The leader needs to lead. The world wants to love America. But today, America is hated. America has the ability to “awe” others and with this power can come a great deal of opportunity.

Watch what happens when the first female and African American become President and Vice-President of the most important nation at a time when she is hated as a war mongering nation full of corrupt cronyism and nepotism. But that’s not the main source of international contempt because everyone still remembers Vietnam during Nixon and LBJ, as well as Iraq during Bush I.

No, the world is mad at America because America lost her way. She got lost at her coming of age, like the transition from late teen to young adult, when the testosterone goes to the head and the ego gets out of control, America is growing up. Making her mistakes in order to move into her rightful place as the leader of the free world.

Rightful because capitalism was victorious in the struggle between fascism, theocracy, communism and dictatorship. America championed the cause because her Founding Fathers used the tools given them in the Wealth of Nations to achieve self-sufficiency.

America is a country admired for her vision of the future, and her ability to illuminate the path and lead the way in a new world order where humans are, for the first time, universally beginning to embrace their Mother Earth as a symbol of humanity; a symbol of life. As we embark into an age where Man will lift off into space to colonize a planet once believed to sustain life, perhaps opening up vast new possibilities as well as threats, humanity must unite under a common theme of hope, aspiration, equality and human rights.

As new technologies that had been suppressed for reasons of financial inefficiency take our breaths away and capture our imaginations, like Tesla Motors, wireless electricity, smart appliances, ubiquitous broadband “all-the-time-everywhere”, America must regain the world’s trust or geopolitical “exercises” like the Iraq war will become impossible to maintain.

Ron Paul will definitely play a very important hand in delivering this. But as a practicing capitalist with dreams of one day running a central bank in a developing nation, I know the days of “hard money” and “abolishing taxes” are things of the past, when America could afford to look inward and not care for those less fortunate.

But today, the leader of the free world should not punish those willing to work hard in order to make a living rather than live off of government entitlement programs. Enlightened politicians like the Governor of California understand these concepts already. We shouldn’t punish those that will earn their take when we should be shutting down bogus entitlements that only encourage labor inefficiencies that have multiple repercussions of their own.

The same way labor unions provoke anti-competitive labor behavior rather than loyalty to a thriving company, so too do entitlement programs ripe for abuse and manipulation. Every company dependent on labor unions is under severe strain or has already entered bankruptcy proceedings that have either already, or are about to, neuter the labor unions from the fabric of this great democracy because labor is free to roam today.

Labor is mobile and should be allowed to move to where it is needed most, where the person that has the labor to offer can find exactly the type of work that would make he or she happy, an income, etc. and the employer would get work done at market rates. Labor mobility is the essence of a thriving and prosperous global macro economy, and you can not find me a single person willing to argue a thriving democracy is not the product of an economy sustaining full employment.

If you can look ahead to see where the economy is going at the global macro level, you can then back track from there to deduce which political party will be delegated the responsibility of getting us there. The war was a necessary evil of this nations expansionism. If we can turn that expansionism into an ideological rather than a territorial one, we will win the hearts and minds of a large majority of the world’s population.

And that’s when this planet, as a civilized peoples, will unite to make very difficult decisions. The learned people of the world need not be scared and herded like cattle in an “Orwellian Treatment of The Matrix” dooms day scenario manifested by old and deep blood lines tied to power and ruling classes.

Those wars of the past were necessary evils designed to reinforce this long term emotional and ideological imperialism. It is only the people of an advanced democracy that can lead the rest of the world in their rightful place as leaders. And as important as a thriving economy is to the entire world, so too is the politics and science of bringing this all to fruition.

Hence the swing vote and hence Ron Paul.

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