Ron Paul and Louis Farrakhan

TNC has an interesting post interpreting the enthusiasm many people have today for Ron Paul, despite his great flaws, in light of the enthusiasm many black folks had for Louis Farrakhan a couple of decades ago, around the time of the Million Man March, amid various crises in black America, and the fecklessness of the black political leadership. Excerpt:

The fervency for Ron Paul is rooted in the longing for a reedemer, for one who will rise up and cut through the dishonest pablum of horse-races and sloganeering and speak directly to Americans. It is a species of saviorism which hopes to deliver a prophet onto the people, who will be better than the people themselves.

But every man is a prophet, until he faces a Congress