12.20.11
Ron Paul Music Machine
This video of Ron Paul, put together by TPM Think Progress, put a bopping electro-beat to strung together excerpts of the GOP Presidential candidates’ declarations that, well — everything in civil society, is unconstitutional.
The wee bit of music was subtle but effective, perfect for the imagery.
And it got me back onto a sampler I’d considered months ago, one dealing with the phenomenon in which Paul supporters write lots — and I do mean lots — of tunes recommending their man.
No other Republican nominee enjoys such a thing. And certainly no one on the other side of the line in the Democratic Party, not the President, nobody, comes close, either.
There is the big name, Aimee Allen, who recorded the official/unofficial “Ron Paul Anthem.” It’s the leader of the pack at about half a million hits on YouTube.
But it doesn’t capture the grass roots feel of the virtually countless homespun like-minded efforts uploaded to the web by Paul supporters. And while the glassy-eyed enthusiasm can be a bit frightening, there is no denial of the sincere fervor on display.
If you ever thought that singer/songwriters might be a little wary of putting lyrics about “sound money” and ending “inflation” and the Fed into something that must be sung with conviction, think again.
There’s no shortage.
Here then, a brief selection of American folk tunes on Ron Paul. And everyone wants him to be President.
Sprightly hot stuff with a light sense of humor, DJ von Mises, has uploaded many pro-Ron Paul dance tracks to YouTube.
Von Mises takes his name from the dead Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, whose economic theories form the core of Paul-ian monetary policy. That they’ve all been proven disastrously wrong by the current mess is really beside the point here.
And while the tribute inherent in using the name von Mises may be lost on random listeners, to the true believers in Paul it is exquisitely resonant. (Update: Sadly, von Mises pulled this number from YouTube soon after DD linked to it. Who knew the sound money folks could be so touchy? The world’s pleasure awaits but if being a hermit is your thing, who am I to argue?)
Ron Paul will end inflation, she sings. There isn’t any inflation to speak of but it hardly matters. She is so cute, along with the soft-peddled off camera antics, even the slight lithp at the beginning works.
“This is a song I wrote this song [sic] for Ron Paul to give any help I could towards bringing our troops home and ending the federal reserve,” writes the artist on YouTube. I would never have suspected such a person to be against the printing of fiat money.
Lyrics: President Ron Paul, how the words sound good together.
Standing for liberty, sound money and peace. Healing
our nation from big government disease.
My favorite, next to the TP Paul video. (Everyone else is number 3, or lower.) The jaunty train rhythm is really hard to beat.
If you drill down through the related videos recommended as these end, you’ll begin to grasp the size of the Ron Paul Music Machine. You’ll be delighted by it. Or you could feel need for a bit of aspirin.
Bonze Anne Rose Blayk said,
December 20, 2011 at 8:16 pm
“Ludwig von Mises, whose economic theories form the core of Paul-ian monetary policy. That they’ve all been proven disastrously wrong by the current mess is really beside the point here.”
Well actually no, Dick, Austrian School approaches to management of monetary policy have hardly been disproven by the current mess?
After all, economists of the Austrian persuasion (such as von Mises, a hardcore free-marketeer even among that company of ardent advocates of laissez-faire economics) tend to strongly favor “hard money” policies, and that’s not at all what we currently have…
The Federal Reserve system is seriously flawed. Replacing it with something else is rather difficult… inasmuch as our economy is now based on epic flows of credit sustaining the provision of essential goods (like food and energy?) and can’t survive serious disruption on a national scale, fiddling about with it may result in catastrophe (e.g., starvation, freezing in the cold, and mass panic in our largest cities?) in a very brief interval of time…
PS: I didn’t listen to any of these all the way through? But gee… it’s really pretty decent stuff!
DD said,
December 20, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Meh.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/inflation-predictions/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/speaking-of-people-whose-models-have-failed/
Hey, I really liked “President Ron Paul” and “Ron Paul’s Right.” I have listened to them many times all the way through.