Consistent? Yes. Consistently right? No.

If you’re against weekends, an 8-hour-work-day, child labor laws, the right to strike, the right to organize, health and safety laws, anti-discrimination laws, minimum wage, and any other victory the working class has made in this country since its inception, then by all means vote for Ron Paul. And if you want a preview of what Paul is proposing, just take a trip to any third world country and witness the conditions unregulated capitalism makes for people and the environment.

Newsletters aside, you may not think that Paul is a racist from his speeches, but he is a white supremacist in the sense that his ideal America is one of prevailing institutional racism - where the dominance of white culture is preserved through the subjugation of working class people of color.

Paul’s notion that “property rights” must not be infringed upon by the government harkens back to a time when people of color were property themselves. Slavery, segregation, and discrimination were all acceptable under the veil of state’s rights. The right to keep minorities in their place without interference from the federal government is why Paul gets open endorsements from white supremacist groups.

Ron Paul’s understanding of history comes from a very privileged place. It is no coincidence that his promise to “restore” America to its former glory resonates with white males and not people of color. That former glory was built on the backs of people who were denied equal protection under a government that lived by Paul’s Libertarian ideology. America’s wealth was created through empire and exploitation, not through the work of rich white men who romanticized freedom as they raped their slaves.

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