Ron Paul was right about everything (and still is)

Tom Woods has often said “Ron Paul was right about everything.” And when you take deep dives into AI searches, you sense that.

In 2007, I was a hardcore champion for Barack Obama. Yeah, funny how things change. Anyway, one view I have consistently held since my high school days is that I’ve always been anti-war. If you’ve spent time here or at my Substack, The Rogue Scribe, you’d know that.

I was also convinced all Republicans were war mongers. Then my brother said, “One Republican is actually against fighting the (Iraq) war.”

“Who?” I said.

“This guy named Ron Paul.”

While I didn’t take a deep dive into Paul until 2011, the name stuck. As I became more of a fan of his after he left Congress, one major reason I shifted toward libertarianism and Austrian economics were because so much of what Paul was predicting was actually happening.

The warfare-welfare state here at home racking up debt that’s not slowing down, the growing need for sound currency regardless of what academics tell us, and the 2008 financial collapse. While I just blamed the collapse on George W. Bush because I thought that was what Democrats were supposed to do (God, was I in lockstep once upon a time), Paul was busy proving to everyone that he wasn’t the “crank” many in the House, Senate, and media thought he was.

My conversation with AI and how Ron Paul got involved

When I see somebody making notes on Substack that I deem ticky-tacky, it’s easy to use AI as a fact check. This one involved the recent hacking of FBI Director Kash Patel. So, I thought I’d check it out via Brave AI — an AI tool that does not retain your data and deletes chats after 24 hours.

I also have my spats with Brave, since it leans with a pro-institutional bias by default. That said, it’s my go-to here as opposed to ChatGPT, because I like approaching these conversations with no preconceived bias based on data.

A snippet of the conversation in question

Me: Did Iran hack Kash Patel?

Brave: Yes, Iran-linked hackers breached FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email account, with the Department of Justice confirming the compromise on March 27, 2026.

Me: Think they can hack into even more databases and release the full Epstein files?

Brave: While there is no confirmed evidence that Handala or any Iranian group has breached the official Epstein files held by the U.S. Department of Justice, the group has demonstrated the capability and intent to expose high-level secrets.

The recent hack of FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email—though not a government system—shows their ongoing campaign against U.S. officials.

Me: So, what exactly would happen if Iran managed to leak such files to the world?

Brave: If Iran-linked hackers like the Handala Hack Team were to leak the so-called “full Epstein files”, the consequences would likely be geopolitical, social, and institutional, not just sensational.

1. Massive Global Attention Shift

2. Exposure of High-Profile Figures

3. Geopolitical Weaponization

4. Public Distrust in Institutions

Me: The public’s distrust in institutions is already low — much to said institutions’ faults. Could that distrust reach the point of no return?

Brave: Yes, public distrust in institutions could reach a point of no return, especially if systemic failures, polarization, and erosion of epistemic authority continue unchecked.

Trust in U.S. institutions has declined sharply since the 1960s, with only 23% trusting the federal government in 2024 (down from 35% in 2022). similar drops are seen in media, science, and financial systems.

Me: This is why I believe many libertarians like Tom Woods who are known for saying, “Ron Paul was right about everything.”

Libertarians like Tom Woods say “Ron Paul was right about everything” because Paul consistently predicted major crises—such as the 2008 financial collapse, endless wars, Federal Reserve malfeasance, and erosion of civil liberties—based on Austrian economics and a strict adherence to the Constitution.

I became a libertarian because I couldn’t ignore the Book of Paul

I didn’t just wake up one day and say, “I think I’ll be a libertarian like Ron Paul.” Let’s see what is his views are and I’ll follow him. No, that’s complete and sheer idiocy.

Instead, I approached the evolution of my worldview with an open mind. I saw the 2008 financial crisis and took a deeper look into it. The endless wars were the easy part, especially considering the lies they’d all be quick fixes, including the Iran conflict.

Ditto for the eroding value of the dollar and a national debt that’s growing more unsustainable by the year. Prices at your local grocery store will tell you everything, and it’s not a failure of capitalism, as some in the media and government would love to believe. Instead, it’s courtesy of central banking that won’t stop creating money out of thin air.

If I didn’t look at this with an objective view and say, “Yeah, Ron Paul was right about everything,” then I wouldn’t be a libertarian.

Paul’s work and predictions helped inspire my books

I don’t write for validation, nor do I conform to MFA nonsense or formulaic and absent-minded genre tropes. Nor do I virtue signal to win a few brownie points from institutions that will collapse upon themselves in due time.

No, I write to continue Ron Paul’s message of liberty, and one that he continues to spread even into his 90s. Paul’s work has given my life purpose and meaning, because I saw a problem that there wasn’t enough fiction out there with pro-liberty themes thanks to the primarily leftist-takeover of the literary industry.

So I filled the gap. You can get a firsthand look on how I filled that gap at The Rebel Lore Vault, a store that doesn’t bow down to algorithms, doesn’t show you a million and one other products to distract you from what you’re doing, and doesn’t plague you with institutional ideology that got us into this mess in the first place.

If you want fiction that doesn’t bow to the same institutions Paul warned about…

👉 Then check out the Rebel Lore Vault