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| Subject: How Rand and Ron Paul's freedom-focused ideology is gaining ground on college campuses Fri Oct 03, 2014 11:07 pm | |
| Before he became an evangelist for the libertarian movement, Jacob Pritchett was just another young Republican with a thing for Rush Limbaugh. But during his senior year at Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia, Pritchett had a conversion experience. It was 2011, and he heard about Ron Paul, a semi-obscure Republican congressman from Texas then running for president. Paul had generated buzz for deviating from the party line. Curious, Pritchett googled him and came across the YouTube video that changed his life. Called “Ron Paul’s What If? Remastered,” the clip takes a famous 2009 speech the congressman gave on the floor of the House of Representatives and sets it to a distorted guitar track accompanied by graphics reminiscent of a Gorillaz music video. The package gives Paul’s disembodied voice undeniable power as he lambasts U.S. foreign policy. “What if conservatives who preach small government wake up and realize that our interventionist foreign policy provides the greatest incentive to expand the government?” he asks. “What if Christianity actually teaches peace and not preventive wars of aggression?”
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