Self-proclaimed libertarian and Ron Paul BFF Vince Vaughan has been preaching the words of liberty to Hollywood–and, according to him, it’s working.
Vaughn spoke at a Young Americans for Liberty conference at UCLA over the weekend, and said he does occasionally have fruitful political conversations with costars.
“They start to realize it’s really the principal you are talking about,” he said, “whether it’s drugs or freedom of speech, you can decide for yourself what your comfort zone is, but the principle of it is, you know, should people be allowed to say what they want, and I think that can be contagious to people as they start to understand it.”
“Once people realize that a lot of government action is forced, that you’re really empowering people to decide what is OK or not OK, that usually leads to some people getting mistreated and some people abusing it and causing more problems than solving.”
Some even turn out to be closet libertarians. “I have people come up to me, because I have spoken about it, and they are always like, hush hush, like: ‘I am so glad you said something, I can’t say anything, but I am with you.’”
From The College Fix’s report:
“If you kind of stay in the logic of it, they usually always end up with the same thing, which is: ‘We have to try something,’ or ‘I just don’t believe we can trust individuals that much.’ At which point I always say, ‘Well, who runs the government?’”
Despite his well-known love for the elder Dr. Paul, Vaughn did not jump on board with Rand 2016. “I have gotten to know Rand through Ron and I have found him to be very consistent on a lot of the issues where liberty is concerned, and liked him very much,” he said, later adding, “But to me, Ron was the most consistent in the tradition of liberty.”
