The following description of the Ron Paul phenomenon reminds me of the lyrics from a song by Genesis, Firth of Fifth —

The path is clear
Though no eyes can see
The course laid down long before.
And so with gods and men
The sheep remain inside their pen,
Though many times they’ve seen the way to leave.

Here’s the description from the Salon.com article:

“. . . perhaps the best explanation of the Paul phenomenon came from Rammelkamp, the young man from Long Island who had taken on significant credit card debt for the Paul campaign. He told me that to understand Paul, I had to think of the American people as a baby elephant, chained to a tree. “It realizes that it can only walk 5 feet in each direction. It realizes that it is a slave. When it grows old enough, it is strong enough to break away from the tree. But it doesn’t know.” He pauses, to let this sink in — the American people are a captive animal unaware of its own power to claim liberty. “When was the last time you tried it?” he asks me of breaking free. “Maybe you are strong enough.”

Ron Paul in New Hampshire | Salon News

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