Is there a difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump? From a libertarian point of view, there isn’t, says former Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul.
The three-time presidential candidate was interviewed by CNN during Super Tuesday and was asked for his opinion on the 2016 race for the White House. In typical Paul fashion, he used the facts to show how there isn’t much difference between Trump and Clinton. He pretty much reiterated his previous message that Trump is not as anti-establishment as some people have portrayed him.
Essentially, there isn’t any “meaningful difference” between the two party frontrunners.
“They both support the military industrial complex, the Federal Reserve, deficits, entitlements, invasion of our privacy. And it’s super nationalistic populism versus socialism. That is so removed from what we need to be doing. We need to remove ourselves from tyranny,” Paul said.
“From a libertarian viewpoint of limited government there is nothing they are offering that reduces the size and scope of the intrusion of government. Who offers any cuts in spending? Who offers protection of our liberty? Some of the top candidates want to carpet-bomb the world.”
When asked if he would endorse any of the candidates, Dr. Paul said he wouldn’t.
Paul was also asked about Bernie Sanders and if he would endorse his campaign. Let’s just say that his response was an emphatic no.
“No, because he’s an authoritarian. He’s just a variant of Trump. Even the things I worked with on Bernie, some of the foreign policy, he’s a part of the military industrial complex,” Paul averred. “He was a big voter for militarism. He’s an authoritarian of a different color, but Trump’s a super authoritarian. Trump wants to be the boss.”
Is the bestselling author of “End the Fed” and “Liberty Defined” correct? Well, the United States central bank has barely been talked about this election cycle, a non-interventionist foreign policy has been avoided by all of the candidates and it’s rare to hear anything about abolishing government spying programs. So, yes, all of the candidates are pretty much the same, they just use different rhetoric.
– Sanders supported NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.
– Sanders voted in favor of a $1 billion aid package for the coup government in Ukraine.
– Sanders approved of regime change in Libya (getting rid of Gaddafi).
– Sanders supported only gradual withdrawal from Iraq.
– Sanders voted for funding of both wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
After Super Tuesday, the voting public in several key states showed their support for statism and militarism, whether it was for Clinton or Sanders, Trump or Ted Cruz.
According to the Associated Press, Clinton is pulling away from Sanders with 1,001 delegates compared to his 371 delegates. Trump, meanwhile, has 316 delegated versus Cruz’s 226 delegates and Marco Rubio’s 106.
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