Out of the Mouth of Babes and Soldiers!

I first heard about Ron Paul from my then seventeen year old son.

He was so excited by this guy running for President that I actually went in to his room and sat in front of his computer to look at what had him so energised about politics, politics ?

 That’s the last thing in the world I had ever expected him to become excited about. So I listened and watched video after video, together father and son. Bonding in a way that still amazes me. I am forty four years old and here I was sitting watching youtube hour after hour with my son. Having incredible intellectual conversations with my kid. We talked about the constitution, we talked about abortion , we talked about the war in Iraq, the war on terror,  we talked about our Goverment and the rights of  the people, we talked about, Israel and world economies, that I knew he had never had any interest in before this incredible man made it so clear to him.

The most surprising thing  of all was that it was me who was learning from him. From my son, I was learning about the Constitution, I was the one being schooled in Goverment and politics from a seventeen year old kid.

What could have possibly happened  to him in such a short period of time?

How did he come to know so much that had passed me by?

He quoted the second amendment , the sixth amendment  , the first amendment, the sixteenth amendment of the US. Constitution, to me! My seventeen year old kid, who previously cared only about the newest video game or staying out an extra hour after his curfew. I didn’t even know what the sixteenth amendment was.

What could have motivated him to be so concerned  all of a sudden about politics? . . .