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Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin
Kookiness is not from being wrong. Kookiness comes from having ideas that are further out there than your ability to communicate them. And because of Ron Paul's kookiness, he couldn't be taken seriously.
and it's not "empire" that is the crux of conservatism. It's "safety first" - however that might get misconstrued.
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"Kookiness" comes from having ideas that are out of the mainstream. When mainstream ideas are radical, extremist and stupid, ideas that are sensible and prudent indeed seem kooky...kooky because they are unfamiliar, not because they are unwise.
And I beg to differ...it's not a question of "safety first". Nobody is debating whether the US should protect itself, the question is whether leading the charge in a worldwide democratic revolution is a means of protecting the US. When one argues that bolshevik wing of the Republican Party is amiss, that person generally gets put in the "kooky" category.