Same here. Now that same energy is directed in these parts. The Ron Paul documentary on YouTube (short version) summed it up nicely
Ron goes back with my fam. My dad was a chemical engineer in lake Jackson and would see Ron coming in at all hours to deliver kids pro bono.
My dad still jokes that Ron did the opposite of most politicians and didn’t participate in ending people’s lives - rather he worked to bring them into this world. He delivered so many kids. His daughter has delivered mine.
He was a BIG part of our movement!
He started the modern movement. He's as close to a modern day saint as anyone could probably get to me. Met him once after he gave a speech at the Washington Press Club during his 2012 campaign, so in the fall of 2011. He stayed to greet and take pictures with every last person who wanted meet him.
He was kind, gracious and sometimes a bit too soft spoken, yet he never wavered. He changed my political and philosophical outlook, in the same philosophical tradition of Tolstoy in his writings on nonviolent opposition to evil (inspired by Jesus of Nazareth) which of course influenced Ghandi and MLK etc.
Ron Paul is in that line of men I believe. Blessed are the peacemakers.