An important birthday is being celebrated today

Writes Tom Woods:

The heroic Ron Paul turns 84 today.

I thought I’d share this with you: it’s a reflection by the young(ish) Michael Heise, the founder of the Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party.

“How many bills did Ron Paul get passed” is a dumb metric. Most of these bills are evil, and many others are fleeting or insignificant.

He changed the way many people thought. He got them reading important works (seriously, what other presidential candidate everaccomplished that?).

And he changed entire lives, as you’ll see in Michael’s remarks:
By the time I was 18, I was a mess. I had a lot going on at home, my “awakening” made me feel very isolated at school and I just felt like I was in a 24/7 cycle of extreme negativity that I couldn’t escape from to the point where I internalized it, like that’s all there was to my life. By this point I was having suicidal fantasies. It was a very dark point in my life.

Then I stumbled across [a Ron Paul YouTube video] during the 2008 campaign. Ron was an intellectual awakening for me as he was for so many others, but for me he was much more than that. Ron’s entry into my life was a glimpse at the kind of person I want to be like. It was the first real thing to shake the darkness in my mind and show me that my life doesn’t have to be like this — I can strive to be a hero like that guy! I can strive to be brave, courageous, truthful no matter what anybody thought or said. I can fight the odds on the side of right.

My life has never been the same since and Ron has been a constant in it ever since, whether it was Daily Paul, YouTube interviews, his old podcast with Charles Goyette, his Texas straight talks, his books, or now the Liberty Report.

Happy birthday, hero.

You said it, man.

Those were some amazing days, and I couldn’t have been prouder to be out there supporting and defending such a good man.

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