WEBVTT - Keeping Our Republic with Dr. Ron Paul 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.000 Do we still live in a constitutional republic. I've been 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:07.560 pondering this question about what kind of country we're currently 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.440 living in. It seems more like an authoritarian nation than 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:15.440 it does a republic. We saw this escalate very quickly 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.440 during COVID, where we saw leaders and government assume more power. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:23.200 We saw big businesses get bigger, and now because of 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.200 the banking crisis, we're seeing big banks get bigger. The 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.280 centralization of government is probably one of the biggest threats 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.600 we face to this country. The more centralized we get, 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.199 the further way we are from a free country. You 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.839 threw on top the damage that's been done to the 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.440 rule of law and an effort to try to indict 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.440 and to get Donald Trump. So we're going to turn 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.599 to someone who has been a fighter of liberty more 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.400 than anyone else in this country, and that's doctor Ron Paul. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.199 Of course, you know that he ran for president. He 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.800 was a member of Congress for quite some time as well. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.440 He's also the host of the Liberty Report. You can 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.520 find it on Rumble. But we're going to turned to him. 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:02.639 I mean, he's been warning about all of this stuff 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.360 for so long, So who better to turn to to 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.960 try to get some wisdom and where we are, how 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.800 we got here, and where we're going. Stay tuned for 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:19.600 doctor Ron Paul. Doctor Ron Paul, it's always an honor 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.760 to have you on the show. I appreciate you making 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.560 the time today. Good to be with you, Elsa. You know, sir, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.840 we've got a lot going on in the country right now. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.640 We are awaiting a potential Trump indictment from the Manhattan 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.160 DA's office. What do you make of it? And if 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.840 it happens, what do you think it means for the country. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:43.320 Not much good, But you know, it's fascinating because so 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.440 far the threat of indictments doing Trump a lot of good. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.760 Because people are smarter than I guess they ever anticipated that. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.000 People who hey Trump, thought well, we'll destroy this man, 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.240 but they've been doing that for five years or so. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.760 And now, of course an indictment never done before, we'll 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.760 him forever. It remains to be seen. People are unpredictable, 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.400 I think, because it's all based on lies, innuendos, and 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.960 political shenanigans. Uh. You know, I don't think it's uh 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.160 it's going to hurt Trump like the Democrats think. It 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.720 may just totally backfire on him and h But in 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.000 a way, this is very democratically decided. It's going to 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.520 be the will of people. The impression that people have 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.880 that makes all the difference. But so far it hasn't 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.760 been hurting it. But it's total nonsense. But if you 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:38.280 look at long term stability in our judicial system, it's 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.480 a disaster. I mean, this whole thing going on, you know, 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.520 whether this indictment and all the nonsense that went on 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:52.839 with January sixth and h and also Russia Gay it's 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.960 built with a just a mountain of lies and innuendos, 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.280 so that I think it's very dangerous. I don't think 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:04.359 we have rule law at all, but the immediate political 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.160 impact it might be a little bit different, but that'll 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:11.280 also be you know, temporary, because what really should bother 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.600 all of us is what's happening to our system of 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.840 the rule of law? And it really, it really doesn't exist. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.960 And I think that is one of our greatest dangers 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.840 that we're facing today. I agree with you, sir, the 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.079 danger to the rule of law. I mean, it does 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.920 seem like we've lost it in America. Is it possible 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.760 to get it back or once it's gone, or are 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.839 we just veering down a dangerous road. That's the key 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.800 question right now. I'm trying to sort all this out 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.120 by writing a little bit on it, you know. And 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.680 I it's very easy to come up with all the disasters. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.560 But then deep down in my soul, I want to 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.240 be and there's a reason to say, well, the world's 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.240 not coming to an end. Then I tell myself, you know, 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.920 I was born during the depression. I remember the conversations 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.320 about our depression. I remember the World War Two. I 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:09.040 remember people dying, friends and neighbors and relatives in World 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:13.880 War two, Vietnam career, in all these places, and I think, 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.719 you know, uh, that's a that's a huge thing to 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.520 go through. So sometimes things, uh you know, work out 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:26.000 better than you anticipate. But I still think that fundamentally 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.279 and structurally, whether it's the rule of law or moral 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:33.200 fiber or people telling the truth, I'll tell you what, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:37.800 I think we're worse off those fund with those fundamentals 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.160 than we were when we were suffering through the depressions 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:45.080 and world wars. So whether or not we can recover, 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:49.320 I would say, yes, we can, we can. But but 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.680 the big bud is we have to do the right thing. Uh, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.480 I you know, have spoken to a lot of college 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:59.400 campuses during campaigns, and I would spend you know, if 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.839 I spoke hour, it's spend fifteen minutes or so trying 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:07.159 to get young people alerted to the fact is spending 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.839 money and debt is bad and bankruptcies are bad and 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.560 destruction of money is very, very dangerous. And then in 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.279 the last ten minutes, I say, but the answers are here. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.040 We know what to do. The founders gave us good guidance, 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.599 and what we need to do is just follow the 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:27.640 rules and things we get better rather quickly. Even though 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:31.200 I predict that's not going to happen, it's available. So 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.479 if there's a few of us around that believe that 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.520 understand it, and you don't want to just go hide 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.960 in the mountains someplace, then the most important thing we 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:43.919 do is try to understand it to the best of 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.440 our ability, and then try to convert other people to 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.359 doing it, and then finally get people to do the 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.920 right thing. An incident that occurred here in the last 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.880 couple of years I think should be a positive thing 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.400 in that is, think of the horrible, horrible things that 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.479 we're having and as an excuse of COVID. We're all 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.520 going to die from COVID, and they and they had 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.440 the lockdowns and all these things. But then the people 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.600 started waking up. You know. A couple of years ago, 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.000 I said, it's going to continue, it will never be thought. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.000 Uh And it's still uh, you know, out there, and 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.800 it's still a danger. But when people wake up, that 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.080 makes a difference. So in my lifetime, I've been in 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.040 politics and medicine other things, but right now my whole 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.640 goal is trying to reach as many people as possible 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:35.159 to say there are answers, but we have to be motivated, 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.920 you know, to find a way to spread that message. 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.240 And what you do, Lisa, is part of that. And 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.200 you probably don't even have any idea how many people 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:48.679 you've influenced. So I think that is the positive things. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.839 And the other thing is, uh, you know there the 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:56.120 remnant out there is you can't measure it, and ideas 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.839 do have consequences. And I think we're winning some battles there. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:05.360 When we think about some of our libertarian Austrian school think, thanks, 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.000 I think we've made some real progress. Well I appreciate that, sir. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.640 You know, I think I mentioned to you before that, 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.200 you know, COVID was an awakening for me of just 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.040 seeing the loss of liberty so quickly. It was just 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.160 hard to not miss and hard to not see, and 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.080 then disturbing as well. When did we lose the rule 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.840 of law? Has it just been a steady erosion or 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.640 are there key moments that you could point to and say, aha, 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.840 you know, that's when it happened. The big picture is 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:37.120 what I'm trying to put down and think about and 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.960 all over, and that is I believe there's been a coup, 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.760 a coup of the American system, the American Republic of 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.280 the Constitution, and a group came in and they took 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.600 it over, and they're in charge. So you don't go 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.400 to war with declaration. You go to war when a 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:58.760 president rise an executive order. And I date the real 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.800 in the number one day I came up with. I 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.840 had there a lot of incidents that have occurred, But 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.800 the day did I come up with is when it 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.360 became very obviously there has been a coup of our 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.600 government and our system. And that was November twenty second, 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.040 nineteen sixty three. And I remember that clearly, and that 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:22.440 of course was when Kennedy was shot by the CIA, 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.960 and then Robert Kennedy was shot and Martin Luther King 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.640 was shot, and then a hundred other people that were 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.920 related were shot. And the odds are most Americans now 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.200 believe it was probably we ourselves that did it to us. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.360 The Russians didn't come and do it to us. So 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.800 I think that's when it happened, and that exists. But 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.000 that's just trying to understand it. But when you when 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:50.600 you look at what they did, that the bad stuff 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.560 they did under COVID, you know that atmosphere is there. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.160 So it's an attitude, the prevailing attitude. It's it's the 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.000 sorosis of the world to take over our universities, taking 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:06.440 over medicine. So they have been winning these battles. But 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.400 once again, the only thing that we have left is 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.520 trying to use the freedoms that we have to persuade 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.000 other people to change their minds. And of course that's 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.440 where I see bits and pieces of hope. Well, and 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:24.240 of course we've seen this broader centralization of power since COVID. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.240 You know, the government has grown bigger, big businesses have 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.840 grown bigger, and big banks as well. I mean, we're 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.679 facing this global banking crisis right now, and you've had 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.040 the government step in as well as other big banks 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.480 getting bigger. You know, talk a little bit about how 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.760 we got here and where you think that's heading. Well, 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.400 we got here. There's very specific dates how we went 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:49.080 from you know what the founders said, you know, you're 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.559 going to have only gold and silver as legal tender. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.720 There was nobody there a lot of amid deals of 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:59.640 credit or paper money, and that would be the restraining way, 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.839 not allowing people to spend too much money on undeclared 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:08.440 wars or developing a welfare state. So the big date 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.240 on that, of course is nineteen thirteen because of the 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.520 educational progressive system that was occurring. Uh, it was a 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.520 philosophic change. And that's when we got the little Reserve 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.559 and the and the income tax and then the and 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.720 that's when Woodrow Wilson, when you know, to globalism and 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.040 making the world safe for democracy. It's more or less 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.679 being downhill for that until you know some dates. But 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.040 when when when it comes to money, we had the 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:41.800 futtle reserve and then uh, they still had their whole goal. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.719 The people who believe the liberty, the ones that were 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.240 composed to delivery, had to get rid of an independent 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:55.280 voluntary system and honest money. So they they probably they 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.640 probably didn't sit down and say let's have a depression, 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.079 but their policies were stupid enough to give a depression. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.480 And then the first thing that Roosevelt did was taking 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.640 the gold, and that meant that we were a bankrupt country. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.520 The American people weren't a lot of own gold. And 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.600 and then and that lasted for forty years, that we 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.800 weren't a lot of own gold. And we were trying 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:24.040 to keep it together amazingly well with guaranteeing our dollar 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:28.200 overseas at thirty five dollars announced with the Brton Woods Agreement, 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.920 but that was doomed to fail. Henry has said it 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.920 wouldn't work even when it was started in nineteen forty five. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.040 So it collapses, and that is when we have the 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.439 next stage of bankruptcy. That means we defaulted on our 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:46.640 promise to pay and nobody was reimbursed by gold anymore. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:52.120 So that was a major, major event, was August fifteenth 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.560 of seventy one. And it's just skyrocket and so everything 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.800 has been happening in these last twenty or thirty years, 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:03.960 really very predictive. Will Austrian economists understand it and they 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.600 know where the problems are and they work hard at 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.920 trying to convince people. But the obstacles are pretty great. 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.960 Universities are controlled by people who are more attuned to 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.319 George Soros than they are to uh, you know, on 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.679 miss so that that is that is a problem. But 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:26.120 it's uh if if if everybody said, well, it's not doable, 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.600 you can't ever change people's mind. You must you see, 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:34.240 it's an always you're joining the gang. Because the people 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.640 who are our enemies don't believe in truth. They're nihilists. 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.880 So if we give up and say well we can't 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.640 do it, we become you know, endorser of nihilists will 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.320 say we can't do it as a failure and it's 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.400 beyond our control. Uh And and we don't know that 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:57.760 ricles can happen. But everybody, my my advice is everybody 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.319 that finally discovers, you know that there is a problem, 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.839 and they know basically what the answer is that can 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:09.080 be found in personal liberty and honest money, a judicial 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:14.120 system that is honest. If everybody that knows that, I 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.760 believe they personally have a moral obligation to do whatever 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.320 they can to spread that message for their own for 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:25.080 their own benefit, their families benefit, and everybody else's benefit, 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.199 because the world would be better off if we have 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.520 more people agreeing with it, and then also more bold people. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.719 It gives cover to other people than to step up 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.400 and to speak the truth and to be brave in 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.880 the face of sort of this mob mentality that we're 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.000 living in now. You know, you'd mentioned George Soros a 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.040 couple of times. How much damage has he done to 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.280 the country. I guess if you wanted to name it 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.400 and you had to vote, it would be a tough 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:56.160 race between between George Soros and Fauci, you know, doing 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.600 the home. But they're one and the same group in 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.280 many ways. They believe in authoritarianism, they do not believe 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:07.760 in a higher law, and they aren't moral as they 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.080 don't believe in truth. They don't think it's possible to 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:14.880 know truth. So therefore, if you're a nihilist, you license 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.960 yourself to decide who will determine the truth. And that, 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.440 of course, is what it was always said about the Soviets. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.520 The party decided the truth, and they said that at 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:30.880 a various philosophic manner. Well, you have to have order. 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.960 You can't have people everybody deciding and they had no 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.080 interest in something that some people who have come around 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.600 to believing is a higher law and that there it's identifiable. 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.240 But if you look at an age and history from 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.600 the very first book ever written, you know, thousands of 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.120 years ago, there was a recognition that you shouldn't lie, cheat, 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.880 and stilln't kill people. You know, there was a higher 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:58.479 law that was determined outside you know, of the bureaucrats 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.280 and the government, and we've they lost that. To your point, 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.120 I do feel like when I was growing up that 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.520 there were some just basic tenets that we all agreed 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.240 in as Americans, and that seems to have been eroded. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.240 And there's so much you know, gray area and that 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:15.760 How close to an authoritarian nation are we right now? Oh? 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:19.720 I think we're very authoritarian. There's not much you do. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:23.640 But one thing is is, including myself, we all march 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.960 to the laws and the rules and the regulations because 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.120 we're not quite ready to say you have a gun 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.040 and say you can't make me do that, you know, 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.640 so it's very authoritarian. I mean, all you have to 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.680 do is look at the Federal Register and look at 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.600 the laws being passed and all the nonsense going on, 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:46.000 and what's on our television and who runs social media. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:51.280 I think one big thing is much clearer now, although 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.440 many of us would say this was the case coming 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.240 along for many, many decades, and that is the collusion 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:02.000 of big business and big government and uh. And you 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:06.600 can see this especially with the lockdowns, uh and other things. 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.920 It was the It was the business people that were 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.320 enforcing the lockdowns and governs. Well, we believe in a 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.960 free speech and First Amendment, but it was always a connection. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.640 So that that is existent and that's all authoritarian is 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.040 a very sophisticated and very tricky. And the one thing 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.280 is since they don't even believe there is such a 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.200 thing it's truth. And they also believe that you should 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:34.400 use truth. You're they're a lying to their benefit. Uh. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.960 That it just continues forever. So that's why I think 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.560 that basically, and even the founders talked about it. You know, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.560 we've given you a constitution, but it's not going to 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.320 work if you don't have a moral people. And right 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.800 now I would say we're less moral people than we 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.280 have been. Uh. You know, in the last one hundred, 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.800 two hundred years, I think really one hundred years the 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:05.480 progressive areas where we really started downhill. And now we're 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.600 in a dilemma. We have to decide can we go deeper? 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.600 Can we give more authority to the government? And uh, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.680 it's it's uh they're out there, I mean the COVID 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.920 and you discovered something going on with with COVID control 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.440 of people. That's what that was all. They weren't caring 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:27.280 about medicine. They want to destroy medicine, too much independence 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.840 of doctors and patient and too much natural medicine. So 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:36.680 they had to stop that. And that's why, that's why 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:41.600 we had so much authoritarianism in medicine, education, the whole work. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:46.800 So and it's it's ultimately a threat by government to 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.960 punish us. I mean right now, in recent years it's 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.640 been I could lose my job on this. You know, 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.800 how am I going to feed my kids? So? Uh know, 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:01.800 it's it's rampant, it's epidemic, and tourism has to be 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.480 stopped or this is going to get a lot worse. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:08.680 I keep hoping and seeing cracks and in the savant 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.920 there where where the authoritarians are losing a little bit 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.200 of cloud and that we'll move in the other direction. 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.480 And I still work on that assumption, but some days 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:22.160 I have a hard time convincing anybody else than working 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.639 on myself. That's one of the reasons during COVID, I 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.359 was like, I'm not getting vaccinated. This makes no sense, 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.640 and I made it known to the public on TV 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.680 and our EDS, letting everyone know why I wasn't getting 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:34.600 it and why we shouldn't be forced to have to 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.600 get it. I always love having you on the show. 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.679 Is there anything you'd like to leave us with before 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.399 we go? I spend my time trying to get a 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.520 message each day with my Liberty Report with his live 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:48.760 stream Ron Paul Liberty Report at eleven Central Time, and 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:52.200 we're always looking for new people who make comments. And 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:54.920 you know, in the last few weeks we switched to Rumble, 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:59.480 and Rumbo has been very, very courteous and kind us 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:05.840 that it's been so much better than wherever we were, 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:10.200 you know, YouTube, and so our numbers are improving and 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:14.639 that's always encouraging. So I'm welcome more of viewers to 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.720 the Liberty Report. Awesome, well, everyone go check it out, 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:19.760 Doctor Ron Paul, Thank you so much. For your time, 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:21.560 but I really appreciate it's an honor to have you 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:31.080 on the show. Thanks. That was Doctor Ron Paul. Always 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.439 great having him on the show. Obviously, he's been warning 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.200 about all of this stuff for the longest time, so 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.359 it's just good to kind of hear his wisdom and 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.479 hear what he has to say, so I appreciate him 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.679 taking the time. I want to thank you guys at 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.600 home for listening to the show every Monday and Thursday, 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:47.720 but you can listen throughout the week. Feel free to 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.119 leave us a review, give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.639 I want to thank John Cassio, my producer, for putting 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.280 the show together. Until next time, Thanks so much.