'But because Paul is a maverick by the standards of either party, he's looked up to as an "intellectual."'

An intellectual by Washington political standards is my neighbour's basset hound. Politicians no longer speak for you and me. They speak for money, for big business, for banks. It's no longer worth voting.

GASP!

I haven't cast a vote in over thirty years that changed a damned thing, and I ask not for admonitions about how I'm letting democracy down, but how you who have voted and thus upheld democracy have changed anything for the good in that time. I would really like to hear about it.

I no longer trust the bastards and that's that. My next ballot will have the words 'Get fucked' on it and my name printed and then signed beneath it. No more of the bullshit for this ol' boy.