Ron Paul on whether liberty can be achieved through the political process

James Corbett sits down with Ron Paul to discuss the coming end of the Federal Reserve. In this excerpt, Dr. Paul answers the question of whether liberty can be achieved through the political process. The whole interview can be watched at the source: Corbett Report YouTube channel.

Transcript:

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James Corbett:

Welcome friends, James Corbett here of corbettreport.com in Acapulco, Mexico. It is the 15th of February, 2020, and it's an old interview cliche that my next guest needs no introduction, but my next guest needs no introduction. Dr. Ron Paul, welcome to the Corbett Report.

Ron Paul:

Thank you. Nice to be with you.

James Corbett:

Nice to have you here in Acapulco, Mexico, where we are of course attending the Anarchapulco Conference, so in keeping with the theme of the conference, let's ask some questions related to politics and the political process, like you were talking about at your speech last night.

Let's start with a simple question that has profound ramifications. Do you think liberty can be achieved through the political process?

Ron Paul:

I don't think we have many choices. We have to deal with the political process, because they are the enemy of liberty. So, you have to undo the political process or re-educate people. I don't see it as a political problem. I think it's a philosophic problem of people understanding what liberty is all about, what sound economic policy is about, what monetary policy about. Because the political system is just a reflection of prevailing ideas. So the enemy is a prevailing idea that people need authoritarians in charge through government, which has been throughout history, to tell people how they should live, and they're motivated sometimes by wanting to help people, which is very dangerous, and sometimes they're motivated just for their own self-interest, and most of the time it's power and money and control that motivates them. I know a lot of people went to Washington, I saw, and they were well motivated, but then they soon blended in because of the system, the political system overrode what they believed, the philosophic system. But no, the political action will eventually have to happen, all revolutions are that way, but my goal is to always to keep it a peaceful philosophic ideological revolution, so people's minds are changed. Let's say that we wanted to you know bring about a monetary system that I would endorse, but you can't do it by force because there's too many special interest benefiting, everybody from rich to poor, every level, everybody you know it's dependent on free stuff, and there's nothing freer than free money. Of course, the consequence is deadly and that's what I've concentrated on.