While Ron Paul was officially running for President, mainstream media sources largely ignored him with the exception of the occasional jab at his beliefs–the economy isn’t that bad, they said. Government regulation hasn’t ruined anything, they told us. Ron Paul is crazy for believing such things, they wanted us to believe.

Now, however, with an economic downturn in full swing, ordinary people are losing their homes, their retirement savings and soon they’ll likely be losing their jobs as well. Ordinary people are seeing their financial security destroyed by a form of corporate socialism/welfare (fascism for those in the know) that they’ve never witnessed before. Ordinary people are starting to realize that John McCain and Barrack Obama are working for the same people and that when it comes right down to it, they have the same agenda. Ordinary people are realizing that Ron Paul was telling the truth when he said that our foreign and economic policies were destroying our once great nation. And by bailing out giant irresponsible corporations to the tune of near trillions of dollars, the US government has placed the burden of the current economic crises on the backs of the little guys, not on the backs of the wealthy elites where it belongs. This is, my lovelies, fascism. This is what Ron Paul was warning of. This is what he was ridiculed for saying was going to happen. And now that it has happened, ordinary men and women are trembling in fear–if only we had listened when we had the chance!

But now, finally, mainstream media sources are giving Dr. Paul a small fraction of the respect he deserves. His views are being discussed with less skepticism, less biting sarcasm and a small amount of respect for the fact that the man was right all along.

And these men we have running for president, where are they on this? Initially, both Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama expressed their tentative approval of the bailout, oops, I mean rescue bill, and then began backtracking when the extent of voter disapproval made itself known. A few days later, they came to agree on the necessity of it, thereby illustrating beyond any lingering doubt that, as Ron Paul puts it, “our one-party system is complicit in yet another crime against the American people.”

I find it strangely satisfying that Congressman Paul, the little Texan who was soundly thrashed in his Quixotic quest for the Republican presidential nomination - the man who was laughed at and mocked as a kook when he tried to alert us all to the fragile and unsustainable nature of our money system - is now seen by more and more Americans as the one politician who told us the truth. No wonder the system spit him out.

The plan bulldozed through Congress last week carries with it dire implications about the future of our country. To redistribute income upward as this does means the game is over. We live in an age looking suspiciously like that of other empires in their late periods of decay, and if you don’t know what that portends, it’s probably just as well.

I only wish that Dr. Paul could have been proven right in the eyes of the nation via less detrimental means. Our freedoms, our liberties, or economy and our dreams have been trampled and destroyed by the ruling elite and a government that is so far out of touch with America that they will do anything they choose even when their constituents beg them not to. The rest of the world is decidedly against the American government and by extension the American people–world leaders such as Putin, Sarkozy and that guy from Brazil have been talking crap because our number is finally up. Hugo Chavez had the best quote of all though, saying that America’s economy is like an elephant sinking in a pool. With the world against us and our own government stabbing us in our collective backs, the American people are lucky to have Ron Paul on our side to tell us the truth about what goes on behind closed doors. Dr. Paul gets the last laugh in regards to the governmental insanity in the US. Unfortunately for him, he probably wishes he had been proven wrong.