Stack topper
With a look back at Ron Paul, the father of Rand Paul. Concluding paragraph:
As for Ron Paul, he blew his 2012 presidential chances with his remarks on heroin. It’s too bad. The country needs to move in the libertarian direction after decades and decades of socialist drift. But the American people do not cotton to fanatics and the doctrinaire. A sound conservatism includes the best of libertarianism. The best includes limited government, free markets, private property, and individual liberty. But it does not include open borders and legalization of all drugs. Legalized marijuana use has in recent years proved a bane not a boon. The fundamental error of libertarians is to suppose that people know their own best long-term interests. That is a species of optimism refuted by experience. It is an error opposite to that of socialists who think that government knows best. Neither political theory is grounded in an understanding of human nature.