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In an article entitled “What’s next for the Ron Paul Revolution,” John Dillin of the Christian Science Monitor asks what is planned for Ron Paul, his supporters, and all the money raised now that there is no way for the Congressman to win the Republican ticket. The answer? Quite a bit it seems.

The only certainty is that Dr. Paul will not be the Republican nominee. Despite being the most watched candidate on YouTube, having the most Meet-ups around the country, and raising huge amounts of money in record time (not to mention all the unique and creative methods of promotion, such as dropping tea in crates labeled, FEMA, NAFTA, and IRS into a river on the anniversary of the Boston Tea-Party in his name), Dr. Paul is not going to be on the Republican ballot this fall.

In a sense however, that doesn’t matter. Will America suffer for not having him as president or his ideas put into place from the top down? Yes. But perhaps Ron Paul’s campaign has already done something for America even more important than getting a great leader elected president, and will continue to do something for years to come.

The Ron Paul phenomenon has been called a revolution, and in the sense that the word means “a turning” perhaps that is correct. With war having been started without Congressional consent once again, and a candidate for president who in essence says he wants to abolish the Second Amendment, America is distancing herself further and further from her Constitution. A revolution — in thought — is needed, not to bring in the so-called ideals of communism or to start a bloody war, but to reestablish and reassert the Constitutional boundaries and checks and balances that keep government in check, and to do so in a peaceful and legal way.

There isn’t anything that is new in the message spread by the Ron Paul campaign. The John Birch Society and other organizations have successfully spread messages similar to those of Ron Paul for decades. During that time, however, the liberal media’s censorship and smear campaigns have blocked the message for many.

That has changed, now, as the Ron Paul campaign has demonstrated. With the threat of an endless war, a worthless dollar, and a morally bankrupt society, many Americans have begun to seek a more thorough understanding of the trends that brought America to this point in history. The introduction of a candidate for office who speaks truth about why these problems have arisen and how to fix them, with the addition of a medium through which people can spread video, written, and verbal messages freely (the internet) without interference from the controlling liberals and neocons and you have the recipe for a movement to take America back.

In fact, among many Paul supporters, there is a new hope and a new passion for participation in the American political system. The success of the Paul campaign has made people believe that despite conspiracy, despite war, and despite troubling economic indicators, it is possible to lead our country back to its Constitutional roots. And it has demonstrated that there is a large group of like minded people determined to see that happen.

As far as what happens after the election, the Christian Science Monitor mentioned the possibility of forming an “umbrella group” (Wouldn’t that be the John Birch Society?), and that change is already taking place in the GOP forums where members of the Ron Paul “revolution” are striving to advance the cause of freedom.

“It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless, monotony, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men,” Samuel Adams once said. If we work to encourage our Congressmen and Senators to adopt Ron Paul’s pro-freedom outlook, and if we inform our friends and relatives about the crisis that is at hand, pray for our country and continue to join pro-Constitutional groups like the John Birch Society, then the Ron Paul revolution is not over, it has just begun.

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