Digg is a popular website where users can uprate content that they like. There are often amusing items at the top of its lists, which is why I usually read it. However, I'm particularly confounded by the vast support Ron Paul has there. Even though people with any sense of the political landscape knew he never had a shot - despite the money he was raising - Digg users continued to uprate his material.
Now a popular story currently on the top list talks about how Paul equates Obama's and McCain's foreign policy to each other. Aside from being as intellectually dishonest as Ralph Nader's claim that George W. Bush and Al Gore were the same in 2000 (see how that one turned out), it's also amazing how many idiotic, libertarian-minded fools there are roaming the Internet. Even after Paul's campaign has ended, these people still support him and his call for a 'revolution', whatever the hell that entails.
There's a reason that, despite the gobs of money they gave to him, people like Digg users failed to get Paul any traction in the presidential race. It's because the people who backed and supported him had no freakin' clue about how politics works in America...and that's not something they can blame on a corrupt system or the traditional media. It's because Americans, surprisingly or not, can identify fringe politicians when they see one.
Even when it's self-identification amongst Republicans.
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