Remember how Ron Paul was running for president and you had those friends (usually dudes) who told you how Paul was making some “good points” and then something else about “the Gold Standard” and the movie The Shining? Yeah, those were innocent times. Patrick Blanchfield is a freelance writer and faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He posted this set of deep thoughts by Ron Paul.
The image shows four people all punching good ol’ Uncle Sam, with the yellow hammer and sickle of communist Russia emblazoned on their collective arms. That’s dumb enough. But the four men are tragically racist depictions of a Jewish man, a Chinese man, a Mexican man, and an African-American man. Ron has always been something of a homophobic bigot with old-timey racist thoughts like how quick black people are when stealing purses. And Paul has subsequently changed the image on the article to this more dystopian one, but it’s the same message, and everyone who uses it is saying the same thing.
The rest of Ron’s racist and historically inaccurate message is as follows:
Marxists, having failed economically, took on saying that oppression was cultural, and in so doing, were able to exact totalitarian rule over society.
Their original argument of workers being *exploited* by capitalists, didn't sell. It's obviously not the case.
So Marxists just shifted their "exploitation" schtick to culture:
--- women exploited by men
--- gays exploited by heterosexuals
--- The old exploited by the young -- and vice-versa
--- This list goes on and on.
The interesting thing to see here is that Ron Paul is correct in the same way he’s always been correct—in the most pristine, backward way possible. The above has indeed happened. Trump and the Republican Party have failed in every economic policy they have attempted over the past 40 years, and so they have “shifted their ‘exploitation’ schtick to culture”:
- Men are exploited by feminists
- Heterosexuals are being exploited by the homosexual and transgender “mafia”
- Young people have been turned against old people by black American pop culture
- And the list goes on until about Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers
Just imagine this: if Ron Paul had been better at hosting reality television he might actually be the president right now. And consider this—Rand Paul is like the dumber, less impressive version of Ron Paul.
In a surprise update, while writing this diary, Patrick Blanchfield added this piece of the puzzle.
If you look at the image, you see Ben Garrison’s name affixed to it; Garrison is known for his right-wing, jingoistic Trump support. Because Garrison is so well-loved by Trump supporters, the white nationalist scene has taken to doctoring many of his comics and adding their special, less suave racism and misogyny. A Wired profile on Garrison appeared last year that went through how this had all taken place and led to Garrison, a self-proclaimed “libertarian,” losing a lot of work. The question now is how a “libertarian” like Ron Paul and his handlers decided to have and upload the forged comic strip that was so obviously racist.
The answer? Because they’re racist.