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It is today that with a heavy heart I can say that Dr. Ron Paul is officially ending his campaign for the presidency of the United States. While it is quite literally painful for me to see him go and leave only a sad choice of two candidates who, when you really push aside the superficial and the difference in party affiliation, offer no real change for America, I am proud to say that Dr. Paul cured my apathy.

I feel like prior to the Ron Paul campaign I was nothing but a disenfranchised American youth who was actually (at least to some degree) laughed at if I were to sound my TRUE political beliefs. A long time registered Republican who felt totally betrayed by “his” party and looking for a group to associate with (perhaps the “red-headed step child” of current American politics, the Libertarians). Dr. Paul changed this for me. I am not a republican or a libertarian or any other bullshit term the political establishment would like to assign to me. I am an American that devoutly believes in freedom, personal liberty, the constitution, and the vision the founders of the United States of America laid out for us all those years ago. And guess what… I am not alone. There are millions of me. There millions of us, from all across the political spectrum. There are millions of us, from all across the racial, gender, and religious spectrum. We are easily the most diverse and yet most homogenous group making noise in politics today. And we are getting loud.

Thanks to the Ron Paul campaign we have united and we have a voice. We can raise millions of dollars any given day. We can get the mass media to talk about us, no matter how badly they wish they could exclude us from the conversation. We even garner the vocal support of non-Americans all over the world via the internet who plead with America to mind its own business and disengage in nation building.

The democrats’ nomination process was perhaps the most painful thing I have ever been through. The republicans’ nomination process managed to take someone I once thought really had backbone and was a true patriot and turned him into another religious, nation-building, freedom-infringing nut. Yet no matter how terrible this presidential campaign gets, I don’t care. I will not become apathetic like last time. I am not yet sure if I actually care who wins, since there really are no major differences between them (other than race and age, the only two things anyone seems to care to talk about).

There is one campaign though that will offer “Change we can believe in”. It mostly certainly is not that of Barack Obama but rather the Campaign for Liberty. The Campaign for Liberty is Dr. Paul’s effort to turn the ground gained as a result of his presidential campaign into long term results. The presidential campaign launched a rEVOLution, the Campaign Liberty is what will make it really happen. I SINCERELY encourage everyone onboard with me to go to http://www.campaignforliberty.com/ and sign up. I already have.

“In the final analysis,” Dr. Paul wrote in his new book The Revolution: A Manifesto (a MUST read), “the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.”

To quote Dr. Paul: “Our time has come to act on these words. May future generations look back on our work and say that these were men and women who, in a moment of great crisis, stood up to their politicians, the opinion-makers, and the establishment, and saved their country.”

My apathy is gone. It is time to fight. Thank you Dr. Paul for starting the rEVOLution, I promise I will help see it through to the end. For liberty!