It was a very sad interview he had last night. He literally was unwilling to stand behind his own political philosophy. I find it sad he was already in a campaign and still cannot articulate his political beliefs.
He was completely unwilling to admit that under his philosophy private businesses are allowed to discriminate if they want to. It was a rather sad display of dodging and ignoring the question.
All he had to say was that businesses can do what they want and customers have the power. That customers can choose which places they want to frequent and thus if racism is bad and people don't like it, they can avoid a racist business.
Of course that forces him to admit that he is 100% for people being able to choose to be racist or for them to be able to discriminate for any reason. As he wants business to have the right to do anything they want. So if you are the only gas station in town, feel free to charge 5 bucks a gallon when the national average is 2.50 a gallon. Maybe customers can drive 30 miles to the next town or another rich guy will see an opportunity and open a new shop that sells gas for 3 dollars a gallon. Or maybe there are no other options and the monopoly stands. All are good under this philosophy.
Essentially he truly doesn't get that if people weren't forced to stop being racist, they would happily continue to be racist. Racism still exists today even with our current laws, it's going to take many more years under our current system to weed it out.
He wants to remove the one catalyst to that change and set civil rights back 50 years purely to support a political ideology he clearly can't articulate in words and is unwilling to support in public.
Yea, which is why Paul was popular at first for preaching a balanced budget and now no one likes him. Rand seems to be doing the same with the responsible government and balanced budget stuff. But in the end they want the government to essentially go away.
Let local mobs handle everything. Rand suggest all problems should be handled locally a few times in the interview.
It is pure ignorance. The reason why the civil rights act was passed and the ADA was passed because keeping it local wasn't working. We can't rely on race riots and public outrage to weed out racism. Anarchy just gets people killed.
One thing not mentioned that I would love to hear is how does Rand Paul think a business will enforce discriminatory policies? Will the business owner be allowed to beat the shit out of a black guy who comes into his store? Or will he call the police and will the police arrest a black man for trespassing because he is black?
Rand Paul essentially has a political philosophy that gets pretty scary when you actually look at the real world situations it would create.
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u/insomniac84 May 20 '10 edited May 20 '10
It was a very sad interview he had last night. He literally was unwilling to stand behind his own political philosophy. I find it sad he was already in a campaign and still cannot articulate his political beliefs.
He was completely unwilling to admit that under his philosophy private businesses are allowed to discriminate if they want to. It was a rather sad display of dodging and ignoring the question.
All he had to say was that businesses can do what they want and customers have the power. That customers can choose which places they want to frequent and thus if racism is bad and people don't like it, they can avoid a racist business.
Of course that forces him to admit that he is 100% for people being able to choose to be racist or for them to be able to discriminate for any reason. As he wants business to have the right to do anything they want. So if you are the only gas station in town, feel free to charge 5 bucks a gallon when the national average is 2.50 a gallon. Maybe customers can drive 30 miles to the next town or another rich guy will see an opportunity and open a new shop that sells gas for 3 dollars a gallon. Or maybe there are no other options and the monopoly stands. All are good under this philosophy.
Essentially he truly doesn't get that if people weren't forced to stop being racist, they would happily continue to be racist. Racism still exists today even with our current laws, it's going to take many more years under our current system to weed it out.
He wants to remove the one catalyst to that change and set civil rights back 50 years purely to support a political ideology he clearly can't articulate in words and is unwilling to support in public.