[lbo-talk] Ron Paul

[Joseph Catron]

This afternoon, a bunch of tenant organizers, most somewhere to the
left of me, found ourselves sharing an historic countercultural church
in the Lower East Side with the Ron Paul campaign.

Stepping outside for air, I overheard a conversation - I swear to God
- about Illuminati drinking blood from skulls.  I didn't wait around
to hear the context.

Overall, it was the weirdest juxtaposition I've experienced in a
church since some anti-globalization protesters shared St. Al's in DC
with a regional assembly of the Knights of Malta, clad in full
medieval regalia, in 2002.

But back to Paul: For whatever reason, a significant number of hipster
types have latched onto him.  After careful observation, I've
concluded that they aren't doing it just to be ironic.  Is this
limited to NYC or something broader?