July 9, 2025 • 25 mins
Democracy thrives on meaningful opposition. When one political party becomes captured by its most extreme voices while the moderate majority remains silent out of fear, we all lose. That's precisely what's happening with today's Democratic Party.
Consider the wisdom of Charles de Gaulle, who when asked how France would survive without him, responded: "The cemeteries are full of men that couldn't be replaced." This profound statement applies equally to modern American politics. Donald Trump is undeniably a transformative figure, but like all leaders, he requires principled opposition to ensure accountability and balance.
What's missing isn't opposition itself, but thoughtful, courageous opposition that reflects mainstream American values rather than fringe ideologies. Most citizens are naturally libertarian in orientation - socially liberal and fiscally conservative - yet our political system offers increasingly extreme options that fail to represent this common-sense middle ground.
Anti-politism offers a potential solution by transforming politics from a career into a civic duty through merit-based lottery selection. By removing re-election pressures and money from politics, we could restore governance that reflects ordinary Americans' pragmatic values. Imagine a political landscape where representatives acknowledge when the other side makes valid points, where immigration policy balances border security with economic reality, and where performance art activism gives way to practical problem-solving.
The path forward may require building a "New Democratic Party" grounded in libertarian principles that provides meaningful opposition while rejecting tribal politics. Until we restore courage as the primary political virtue - the willingness to speak truth even when socially costly - we'll continue cycling through increasingly dysfunctional versions of the same broken system.
Explore how we might create a political future that works for all Americans rather than the powerful few. Share this episode with friends who believe our republic deserves better than what today's politics offers.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Happy Wednesday troops.
Sorry, I didn't record onMonday.
I'd love to tell you someelaborate excuse, but I just
wasn't in the mood.
I know that sounds crazy.
I could make up a story, butpart of my path to redemption
from the lows that I reachedsome years ago was to not lie.
So the truth of the matter ison Monday, I just didn't feel it
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On Tuesday, I thought I'llleave it till Wednesday.
So here we are and what I wantto talk about today, and really
there was no specific news thatjumped up that I felt like I had
to comment upon.
But today I want to talk aboutwhat's happening within the
Democratic Party, and I want tobegin with a simple statement,
which is that Trump needs to beopposed.
Now, when I say that Trumpneeds to be opposed, it's not
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because I have Trump derangementsyndrome.
You know from listening to methat I don't.
I easily credit him with thethings he's done right, but
nobody should be allowed to gounchecked.
Power corrupts, and absolutepower corrupts absolutely, and
Donald Trump is not trying to bea Hitler or a dictator.
That's just a bunch of nonsense.
But we'll get to that in justone minute.
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The truth of the matter is,though he needs to be opposed.
He's not perfect, he doesn'twalk on water.
He's not the holy grail youknow, personified.
He's just well, he is atransformative figure, but he's
an old man and he's going topass into oblivion, as we all do
.
Years and years ago, there was apresident of France named
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Charles de Gaulle.
Those of you who are old enoughto know this will remember this
very clearly.
Those of you who are youngenough, go with me.
Charles de Gaulle was theleader of the Free French Forces
in World War II.
He was the only well, he wasthe, not the only.
He was the most.
I think the Laudier went withhim, but anyway, he was the most
named, well-known Frenchgeneral, most respected French
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general that did not just cavein and collaborate with the
Nazis, as did the Vichygovernment in France after the
main government fell.
It's a long.
I don't want to go into thehistory of it, but there was a
German, a French general, namedMarshal Patin, and Marshal Patin
was a collaborator, and I knowhe's dead.
I don't know if he was executedor not, but anyway, long story
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short, de Gaulle emerged fromWorld War II as the hero of
France, the founder of the FifthRepublic, which is how they
count their various republicsthat have come and gone.
By the way, if you need proofthat republics come or go, you
just have to understand thatFrance is on its fifth republic.
So, to make a long story short,and we're only on our first and
we're managing to screw that uppretty good, but we'll get to
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that in a minute.
So General de Gaulle was beinginterviewed and he came to a
point in his life.
He was a very complicated man.
He was exceptionally French,exceptionally arrogant,
exceptionally difficult.
All the other people in all theother countries, the other
generals General Eisenhower,churchill, the prime minister,
all the rest they hated dealingwith him because he was such a
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big pain in the ass.
But he was the personificationof everything the French loved.
So when he retired and he wasthe president of France after
the war, but he was an old manand I think this was the 1950s
or 60s, I think it was the 60swhen he ultimately retired Don't
quote me on that.
I didn't double check it beforeI did the report.
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Well, feel free to double checkit, let me know.
Anyway, not an important factin this case.
So he was being interviewed by,uh, the biggest french
newspaper, which is le monde,which means the world, and le
monde was interviewing him andyou know, basically, he got a
question that was what's francegoing to do without you, general
, now that you're retiring?
How can france survive withoutyou?
You know, you're the founder ofthe fifth republic and you're
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the savior of france from worldwar ii and you're everything
that you know, we want you to beand we all love you.
And he was a beloved figure inFrance, beloved.
And they asked him the questionhow can France go on without
you, basically?
And his answer was it juststuck with me to this day?
And his answer was thecemeteries are full of men that
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couldn't be replaced, and I justthink that is such a self-aware
and strong answer.
Tells me a lot about GeneralDeGaulle, by the way, and it's
also true of Donald Trump.
Okay, he's going to come andhe's going to go, just like we
all are, and for the republic tosurvive, it needs to have a
healthy opposition.
And this nonsense thatRepublicans are saying that
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they're not going to loseanother election as far as the
eye can see because theDemocrats are so weak and
they're so strong, and all youknow, you've all heard it, I'm
not going to repeat what youalready know.
This is a bunch of nonsense,god forbid.
We don't have a strongopposition.
The problem now is not that wedon't have an opposition major
party the Democratic Party it's.
The problem is the DemocraticParty has allowed the tail to
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wag the dog to the point whereit's become irrelevant.
And so, basically, if Trumpwere immortal, he could run for
re-election against the same.
If they were immortal too, andran against the same group of
Democrats ad infinitum, they'dnever win, because their points
of view are so out of touch withthe mainstream and, worse than
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that, they won't change theirminds, and when I say they, I
mean the progressive fringe ofthe Democratic Party.
They won't change their mindsbecause for them, it's a cult,
not a political position, inother words, trump derangement.
When you just hate Donald Trump, everything he does is wrong,
no matter how great it is, andwhen you're beyond the point of
being able to even grudginglygrant credit to anything, you
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are not being reasonable, youare being a cultist.
You're right out there withDavid Koresh, you know.
So listen, dudes and dudettes.
Wise up on the Democratic Party.
That's what today's podcast isabout.
What has to happen If I were aDemocrat today.
And for those of you I don'tknow if I've mentioned this
before, but if I haven't I willI intend to run for I haven't
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mentioned it before I intend torun for Congress next year and
I'm going to run as alibertarian, which of course
means I'm going to lose.
Now the libertarian party isit's a party in the loosest
sense of the word.
You know it's kind of trying,it's like trying to herd kittens
.
You know the Libertarian Partyhas so many interesting, goofy,
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free at all costs people in it,which are great, by the way.
I love them all.
But it makes it impossible toorganize the party into any
meaningful opposition becauseyou know there are the
anarchists, and then there's theanarcho-capitalists, and then
there's the anarcho-socialists,and then there's the
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libertarians, who are more RandPaulian, who want to work within
the system, and then therekooky.
But I'm going to run within theparty for the very simple
reason that I can get on theballot the easiest as a
libertarian, and I've alwaysbeen a libertarian.
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If you read a radical resetavailable to you on Amazon as
the manifesto of anti-politism,which I'll get to, I'm going to
weave that into this discussion.
You will see that my policyprescriptions.
So when I wrote the book, Iwrote it and I'm going to weave
that into this discussion.
You will see that my policyprescriptions.
So when I wrote the book, Iwrote it and I'm about to do a
rewrite of the book.
I'm going to tell you right nowI'm about to do an edited
version where I take out a lotof my own policy prescriptions
because they're not important.
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But my basic reasoning underantipolitism, the system itself,
which is basically a republicby lottery merit-based lottery
that anyone can become a part ofit shuts out nobody.
It's open to anybody who makesthe effort to show the merit to
be a part of the lottery andthen it's a random selection
from that group so that weconvert politics from a career
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into a duty.
You know you're called upon toserve, you serve, it's one and
done and you're out.
That's it.
And you know the only argumentagainst it is that we lose the
experience of all of theseexperienced Congress people to
which I answer.
Simply look at their trackrecord, and who cares that?
We lose them?
To be perfectly honest.
But it takes not some of themoney out of politics, it takes
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all of the money out of politics.
And if you want to learn moreabout it, it's at a radical
reset, the manifesto ofanti-politism.
In fact, as I look at Elon Musktrying to establish a third
party and as I look at AndrewYang, none of these guys are
making a compelling case for whythey exist.
I want to start.
I want to make anti-politismand I'll get to my whole
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strategy in this and why I'mtalking about this in relation
to the Democrats.
I'm going to pull it alltogether.
I see anti-politism as agenuine it's obviously a genuine
major change because I'm tryingto seal the deal for the
republic forever.
You know, I'm 68 years old andI have no presidential ambitions
.
Therefore, all I'm trying to dois become an influencer in a
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major way, so that my philosophy, my political idea it's not
even a philosophy, my politicalsystem idea that I have becomes.
I believe it would guaranteeAmerica's future, because I
believe everyone's defaultsetting is libertarian, whether
they know it or not, in thesense that most people are
socially liberal and fiscallyconservative.
If you take all the politicallabels off of it and you said to
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most people, should thegovernment be big or small,
they'll say small.
And if you ask most people,should the government be
involved in your private life,they'll say no, and that
includes on the issue ofabortion as well.
Most people are pro-choice.
They're pro-choice, they'reuneasy with it, they want some
restrictions to it.
That's fine.
But most people are pro-choicebecause, again, it's your body
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and I understand that the baby'sa boy.
I don't want to go into theabortion argument today.
I'll do that another day whenit flares up into the public eye
.
Right now it's not flaring up,so let's not even go down that
road.
But the point is that theDemocratic Party today has
become a mouthpiece.
It's basically cowards andprogressives.
Okay, now I've related to youthat I have, since prison,
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adopted Stoicism as my centralguiding philosophy, and Stoicism
has four pillars Courage,justice, wisdom and moderation.
Now, the most important one iscourage, and that's it's the
most important, because it takescourage to speak up against the
crowd.
Courage doesn't always mean youhave to dodge bullets and live
fire, but most people are afraidto speak their mind because
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they're afraid of the social andcareer consequences of doing so
, and that's very true withinpolitical parties and, most of
all, true within the DemocraticParty today.
So you have a tiny fringe ofloud lunatics who support things
like multiple genders, which islunacy.
I don't even want to go down.
There is no debate there.
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That's complete lunacy.
The fact that they're stickingto it so hard and fighting for
it so hard tells you why theprogressive wing of the
Democratic Party is literally acult.
But the other let's say 80% ofDemocrats or so, who understand
that it's a cult, are afraid tospeak up against it, hoping that
it will self-moderate over time, because they don't want to
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lose their cherished positionsand power within the party, even
though they know every word isbullshit.
Okay, the, the tribalization ofAmerica and the breaking down of
the economy into people basedon how much skin pigment they
have, or or you know whatperceived injustice took place
far in the past, or whatever itmight be.
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All of that is lunacy.
It's, it's indefensible, andmost Democrats know that.
I'm positive.
They just don't speak upbecause they lack courage.
And it's hard when you're in anoffice full of people in Los
Angeles, california, working inthe, let's say, the, the, the
film industry, and you know that, that there's and there's a
star in the room and you knowstars carry all kinds of within
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that environment, all kinds ofweird power and everyone's.
You know the stars going on andon about how she you know, he
or she is usually a, she is, youknow, multisexual or whatever
the hell it might be.
And everyone's going yes, yes,of course.
Of course, those badRepublicans Listen.
That's lunacy and they know it.
They're just saying it becausethey're going along to get along
, because they lack courage.
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There's a reason why that's themain pillar of stoicism because
they lack courage.
There's a reason why that's themain pillar of stoicism,
because without it, nothing elsematters.
And so I think what has tohappen, since most people let's
also deal with human beings asthey are I can preach about
having courage.
None of them are going to haveit, and I don't think less of
them as human beings when I saythey.
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The broad mass of the DemocraticParty that goes along to get
along even though they knowtheir own party's positions are
insane and like, for example,mollifying the Hamas wing of the
party.
80% of Democrats think that'sinsane.
They're just going along to getalong and they talk themselves
into believing nonsense, andit's all based on propaganda.
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If you ask anybody for aspecific instance of anything,
they can't cite it, no matterwhat the issue is, because
they've never looked deep enoughto do that.
They're going along to getalong because they're cowards.
They don't have the courage tostand up and tell them what
their common sense tells them,which is 80% of this is bullshit
.
Okay, it's nonsense.
We're not going to shape humanbeings, and the danger with
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progressivism is that itconsiders itself morally on the
high ground and since itconsiders itself morally just,
it doesn't feel like it has tojustify itself.
It even feels justified the liewhen the ends justifies the
means, because we're on themoral high ground.
That's the problem with it, andthe Democratic Party will
become a marginalized nothingunless they change.
And so what I'm going to do isrun for Congress as a
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libertarian, but I'm going totarget my campaign and I'm going
to attempt to get.
I don't really know how to, ifI'll be able to do that, but I'm
going to try to run both on thelibertarian and democratic
ticket in the primary.
I'm not sure if I'll besuccessful at that, but
regardless of whether I'msuccessful or not, that's the
campaign I'm going to run.
Sometimes you can manifest iteven though they won't let you
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in.
I'll do it as a write-in forthe primaries, but the bottom
line is I'll be targetingDemocrats who know that their
party's nonsense, with the goalin mind being to create a new
Democratic Party.
A new Democratic Party.
That is essentially what theLibertarian Party should have
been if it didn't have itsanarcho, weirdo wing.
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That would turn off 90% ofvoters.
And, by the way, anarchocapitalists out there those of
you who are strict followers of,for example, murray Rothbard or
, today, michael Malice, who Ihave enormous respect for and I
have not read all of his work,but a lot of it enormous respect
for, and have not read all ofhis work, but a lot of it, and I
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have.
I agree with it in an idealworld and I understand that he's
very eloquent and can constructa world where volunteerism
seems to be dominant andprevalent, but I just don't
believe, after being in prisonand being up to my ass and the
worst of human nature, thatthat's a realistic point of view
.
Having said that, a new Democratparty that was socially very
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liberal and fiscally veryconservative would have a lot of
appeal to the broad mass ofAmericans who are that, after
Donald Trump is gone, as able asother people are, like JD Vance
or Marco Rubio or the rest.
These are all able people, butDonald Trump is a
once-in-a-lifetime figure.
He has that certain somethingthat can't be taught or learned.
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Jd Vance is an intellectualgiant, frankly, and extremely
erudite, but he's notnecessarily well, he's just not.
He doesn't have that certainnatural connection that Donald
Trump has that it's hard tofathom.
Maybe it'll show up later, butI feel like if it hasn't shown
up yet, it's not going to.
Having said all that, Iconsider him a remarkable human
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being and that's the other thing.
You know.
To be in opposition doesn't meanyou can't acknowledge when the
other side does something right.
So, for example, if I wereleading the New Democrat Party,
which again, and at its core, bythe way, would advocate
anti-politism, the new DemocratParty would say we are for near
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total personal freedom and weare for almost the strictest of
fiscal conservatism, but at thevery same time, we recognize
that life is life and there aresituations and we'll recognize
when the other side doessomething right.
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So, for example, if we existedtoday, the New Democrats existed
today, we would say to DonaldTrump good job on closing the
border.
Now let's deal with the illegalimmigrants that are already
here, and the idea of roundingthem up with Nazis with their
faces covered is not acceptable.
There is a legitimate argumentto be made for a sane
immigration policy.
If you guys are interested inwhat my immigration ideas are,
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there's a podcast about itearlier.
You'll be able to find it inthe titles on whatever streaming
service you're using or anypodcast service you're using,
we're listed on all of them.
Or any podcast service you'reusing, we're listed on all of
them.
But basically, there's a realdiscussion to be had on how to
deal with the illegal immigrantsalready here and we need them.
We need the tax revenue theygenerate, we need the
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productivity they generate.
A lot of the arguments thatTrump makes, like they lower
wages, are not true.
Or, if they are true, they'retrue to the benefit of the
millions of Americans whobenefit.
You know you have to.
I'll give you a really, reallygood example.
Okay, ups used to pride itselfon having the union involved in
its senior management.
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Yada, yada, yada.
Biden was president.
There was a strike at UPS.
Ups caved in and paid theaverage UPS driver.
Now and again if I'm wrongabout this, feel free to chime
in, but my source on this isJohn Stossel the average UPS
driver makes $175,000 a year asa result of that negotiation and
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the union, which was theTeamsters union, you know which
is the pro-Trump union, by theway came out.
And isn't this great.
And we won this great victoryfor workers.
And within a year, 20,000employees of UPS have been laid
off.
You know, there's only so manyways to pull it out.
So they got a raise for some ofthe employees and they got
20,000 of them fired.
And not everybody drives atruck at UPS.
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Someone is loading those trucksand somebody is unloading the
planes and all those otherthings that go.
I don't know their businessmodel, but there are a million
there's probably a millionemployees at UPS.
Anyway, we got 20,000 of themlaid off to get a few of them a
higher paycheck.
This is the point I make is youknow, life is more complicated.
So here we have a situation inimmigration where there's a
legitimate case to be made toargue with Donald Trump, but no
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one's making the legitimate casebecause they're too busy
opposing ice in the streets,because it's performance art.
You know, the Democratic Partyis being led by performance
artists and they need to ditchit and there needs to be a new
Democrat Party and that newdemocrat party needs to embrace
libertarianism under thedemocratic banner.
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And I I there could be anothername for the party.
I was thinking maybe it shouldbe called the jeffersonian party
, but the only reason that Idon't think that's a great idea
and I think it is is because ofthe people left in the
democratic party who realizedthat Thomas Jefferson likely,
although it's not definite couldhave been a nephew, might have
fathered some black children,but if he did see, historic
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great figures like ThomasJefferson didn't shit marble
guys.
I just want to put that on theside.
They were human beings and theymade judgments within the
context of their time thatreflected their time, including
slavery.
And I know that's hard tounderstand, but it's true.
In fact and let's just get overthis entire, just a quick
digression.
Slavery was invented by blackpeople and, yes, black people
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were enslaved in this country.
But they invented slaverybecause that's where all
civilization comes from, theAfrican continent, and slavery
is as old as prostitution, andthe first slaves were black, as
sure as God made little greenapples.
So I don't want to hear thiswhite guys enslave black people.
This is some unique event.
There's nothing unique about it.
Get over it.
And the new Democrat Party wouldsay that it's a history to be
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discussed.
It's a legacy to be built upon,but it's not an excuse for
underperformance in the present.
But a new Democratic Partywouldn't pander.
It would offer solutions.
And the thing aboutanti-politism as the core
philosophy to the new DemocraticParty is people, when they're
not pursuing power and theydon't just say things to say it
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because they're trying to getreelected or raise money.
That's what anti-politism does.
It takes the reelection and themoney completely out of
politics and they're justspeaking their mind.
People are natural libertarians.
You don't even have to tellthem because libertarianism is
just a fancy word for commonsense.
If you really think about it, Imean, use the sense God gave
you.
It's the default.
It's why I think it's thesavior of the country long term,
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because of everybody who'sserving in office are basically
people who have done somethingwith their lives or over the age
of 35 and haven't committed acrime, which is basically the
guidelines for who's eligiblefor an or in the upper third of
income earners, which meansthey've climbed at least into
middle management.
So they've climbed the ladder,they've done everything the
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right way.
They've managed to reach somelevel of success.
That is the pool from where wewill derive our future
congresses and presidents andvice presidents and therefore
they will not be politicians.
They'll be normal level ofsuccess.
That is the pool from where wewill derive our future
Congresses and Presidents andVice Presidents, and therefore
they will not be politicians.
They'll be normal people, andnormal people have normal
concerns, and normal concernsare common sense, and common
sense is libertarianism, andlibertarianism should be the new
Democrat Party.
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That's what I'm saying andthat's what I'm going to end on
today, and I know that was arambling discussion, but I hope
I made some sense.
Anyway, we'll see what happens.
I'm going to run for Congressnext year and you know, as Lao
Tzu said in 600 BC, the founderof Taoism, the longest the
thousand mile journey isshortened by the first step.
That's what he said.
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So that's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to take the firststep out here in Arizona.
Give it a shot, see if I cangain some traction with it,
maybe start a little movementand convert the disaster that
today is the Democratic Partyinto a meaningful opposition
party and, ultimately, themeaningful party in power.
When antipolitism becomes thelaw of the land and parties
simply evaporate.
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There are no political partiesin antipolitism.
Antipolitism is the goal of thenew Democrat party, as I
envision it to ultimately makeitself obsolete by introducing
anti-politism which eliminatesparties, because without
elections, who needs them?
And it goes on from there.
Pick up a copy of A RadicalReset on Amazon, my friends.
It is available to you inKindle, paperback or hardcover,
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let's see.
Share this with your friends.
This is the de rigueur thing Ishould say every single time
that I always forget to say whenI start but please share, share
the podcast.
I think we at least have fun ina different discussion.
Anyway, I don't know, you tellme.
I don't think I'm any nuttierthan anybody else and I'm a
little entertaining.
Anyway, I hope.
Have a beautiful rest.
Happy Wednesday troops.
Sorry, I didn't record onMonday.
I'd love to tell you someelaborate excuse, but I just
wasn't in the mood.
I know that sounds crazy.
I could make up a story, butpart of my path to redemption
from the lows that I reachedsome years ago was to not lie.
So the truth of the matter ison Monday, I just didn't feel it
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On Tuesday, I thought I'llleave it till Wednesday.
So here we are and what I wantto talk about today, and really
there was no specific news thatjumped up that I felt like I had
to comment upon.
But today I want to talk aboutwhat's happening within the
Democratic Party, and I want tobegin with a simple statement,
which is that Trump needs to beopposed.
Now, when I say that Trumpneeds to be opposed, it's not
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because I have Trump derangementsyndrome.
You know from listening to methat I don't.
I easily credit him with thethings he's done right, but
nobody should be allowed to gounchecked.
Power corrupts, and absolutepower corrupts absolutely, and
Donald Trump is not trying to bea Hitler or a dictator.
That's just a bunch of nonsense.
But we'll get to that in justone minute.
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The truth of the matter is,though he needs to be opposed.
He's not perfect, he doesn'twalk on water.
He's not the holy grail youknow, personified.
He's just well, he is atransformative figure, but he's
an old man and he's going topass into oblivion, as we all do
.
Years and years ago, there was apresident of France named
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Charles de Gaulle.
Those of you who are old enoughto know this will remember this
very clearly.
Those of you who are youngenough, go with me.
Charles de Gaulle was theleader of the Free French Forces
in World War II.
He was the only well, he wasthe, not the only.
He was the most.
I think the Laudier went withhim, but anyway, he was the most
named, well-known Frenchgeneral, most respected French
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general that did not just cavein and collaborate with the
Nazis, as did the Vichygovernment in France after the
main government fell.
It's a long.
I don't want to go into thehistory of it, but there was a
German, a French general, namedMarshal Patin, and Marshal Patin
was a collaborator, and I knowhe's dead.
I don't know if he was executedor not, but anyway, long story
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short, de Gaulle emerged fromWorld War II as the hero of
France, the founder of the FifthRepublic, which is how they
count their various republicsthat have come and gone.
By the way, if you need proofthat republics come or go, you
just have to understand thatFrance is on its fifth republic.
So, to make a long story short,and we're only on our first and
we're managing to screw that uppretty good, but we'll get to
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that in a minute.
So General de Gaulle was beinginterviewed and he came to a
point in his life.
He was a very complicated man.
He was exceptionally French,exceptionally arrogant,
exceptionally difficult.
All the other people in all theother countries, the other
generals General Eisenhower,churchill, the prime minister,
all the rest they hated dealingwith him because he was such a
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big pain in the ass.
But he was the personificationof everything the French loved.
So when he retired and he wasthe president of France after
the war, but he was an old manand I think this was the 1950s
or 60s, I think it was the 60swhen he ultimately retired Don't
quote me on that.
I didn't double check it beforeI did the report.
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Well, feel free to double checkit, let me know.
Anyway, not an important factin this case.
So he was being interviewed by,uh, the biggest french
newspaper, which is le monde,which means the world, and le
monde was interviewing him andyou know, basically, he got a
question that was what's francegoing to do without you, general
, now that you're retiring?
How can france survive withoutyou?
You know, you're the founder ofthe fifth republic and you're
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the savior of france from worldwar ii and you're everything
that you know, we want you to beand we all love you.
And he was a beloved figure inFrance, beloved.
And they asked him the questionhow can France go on without
you, basically?
And his answer was it juststuck with me to this day?
And his answer was thecemeteries are full of men that
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couldn't be replaced, and I justthink that is such a self-aware
and strong answer.
Tells me a lot about GeneralDeGaulle, by the way, and it's
also true of Donald Trump.
Okay, he's going to come andhe's going to go, just like we
all are, and for the republic tosurvive, it needs to have a
healthy opposition.
And this nonsense thatRepublicans are saying that
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they're not going to loseanother election as far as the
eye can see because theDemocrats are so weak and
they're so strong, and all youknow, you've all heard it, I'm
not going to repeat what youalready know.
This is a bunch of nonsense,god forbid.
We don't have a strongopposition.
The problem now is not that wedon't have an opposition major
party the Democratic Party it's.
The problem is the DemocraticParty has allowed the tail to
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wag the dog to the point whereit's become irrelevant.
And so, basically, if Trumpwere immortal, he could run for
re-election against the same.
If they were immortal too, andran against the same group of
Democrats ad infinitum, they'dnever win, because their points
of view are so out of touch withthe mainstream and, worse than
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that, they won't change theirminds, and when I say they, I
mean the progressive fringe ofthe Democratic Party.
They won't change their mindsbecause for them, it's a cult,
not a political position, inother words, trump derangement.
When you just hate Donald Trump, everything he does is wrong,
no matter how great it is, andwhen you're beyond the point of
being able to even grudginglygrant credit to anything, you
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are not being reasonable, youare being a cultist.
You're right out there withDavid Koresh, you know.
So listen, dudes and dudettes.
Wise up on the Democratic Party.
That's what today's podcast isabout.
What has to happen If I were aDemocrat today.
And for those of you I don'tknow if I've mentioned this
before, but if I haven't I willI intend to run for I haven't
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mentioned it before I intend torun for Congress next year and
I'm going to run as alibertarian, which of course
means I'm going to lose.
Now the libertarian party isit's a party in the loosest
sense of the word.
You know it's kind of trying,it's like trying to herd kittens
.
You know the Libertarian Partyhas so many interesting, goofy,
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free at all costs people in it,which are great, by the way.
I love them all.
But it makes it impossible toorganize the party into any
meaningful opposition becauseyou know there are the
anarchists, and then there's theanarcho-capitalists, and then
there's the anarcho-socialists,and then there's the
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libertarians, who are more RandPaulian, who want to work within
the system, and then therekooky.
But I'm going to run within theparty for the very simple
reason that I can get on theballot the easiest as a
libertarian, and I've alwaysbeen a libertarian.
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If you read a radical resetavailable to you on Amazon as
the manifesto of anti-politism,which I'll get to, I'm going to
weave that into this discussion.
You will see that my policyprescriptions.
So when I wrote the book, Iwrote it and I'm going to weave
that into this discussion.
You will see that my policyprescriptions.
So when I wrote the book, Iwrote it and I'm about to do a
rewrite of the book.
I'm going to tell you right nowI'm about to do an edited
version where I take out a lotof my own policy prescriptions
because they're not important.
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But my basic reasoning underantipolitism, the system itself,
which is basically a republicby lottery merit-based lottery
that anyone can become a part ofit shuts out nobody.
It's open to anybody who makesthe effort to show the merit to
be a part of the lottery andthen it's a random selection
from that group so that weconvert politics from a career
(07:37):
into a duty.
You know you're called upon toserve, you serve, it's one and
done and you're out.
That's it.
And you know the only argumentagainst it is that we lose the
experience of all of theseexperienced Congress people to
which I answer.
Simply look at their trackrecord, and who cares that?
We lose them?
To be perfectly honest.
But it takes not some of themoney out of politics, it takes
(07:57):
all of the money out of politics.
And if you want to learn moreabout it, it's at a radical
reset, the manifesto ofanti-politism.
In fact, as I look at Elon Musktrying to establish a third
party and as I look at AndrewYang, none of these guys are
making a compelling case for whythey exist.
I want to start.
I want to make anti-politismand I'll get to my whole
(08:19):
strategy in this and why I'mtalking about this in relation
to the Democrats.
I'm going to pull it alltogether.
I see anti-politism as agenuine it's obviously a genuine
major change because I'm tryingto seal the deal for the
republic forever.
You know, I'm 68 years old andI have no presidential ambitions
.
Therefore, all I'm trying to dois become an influencer in a
(08:40):
major way, so that my philosophy, my political idea it's not
even a philosophy, my politicalsystem idea that I have becomes.
I believe it would guaranteeAmerica's future, because I
believe everyone's defaultsetting is libertarian, whether
they know it or not, in thesense that most people are
socially liberal and fiscallyconservative.
If you take all the politicallabels off of it and you said to
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most people, should thegovernment be big or small,
they'll say small.
And if you ask most people,should the government be
involved in your private life,they'll say no, and that
includes on the issue ofabortion as well.
Most people are pro-choice.
They're pro-choice, they'reuneasy with it, they want some
restrictions to it.
That's fine.
But most people are pro-choicebecause, again, it's your body
(09:26):
and I understand that the baby'sa boy.
I don't want to go into theabortion argument today.
I'll do that another day whenit flares up into the public eye
.
Right now it's not flaring up,so let's not even go down that
road.
But the point is that theDemocratic Party today has
become a mouthpiece.
It's basically cowards andprogressives.
Okay, now I've related to youthat I have, since prison,
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adopted Stoicism as my centralguiding philosophy, and Stoicism
has four pillars Courage,justice, wisdom and moderation.
Now, the most important one iscourage, and that's it's the
most important, because it takescourage to speak up against the
crowd.
Courage doesn't always mean youhave to dodge bullets and live
fire, but most people are afraidto speak their mind because
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they're afraid of the social andcareer consequences of doing so
, and that's very true withinpolitical parties and, most of
all, true within the DemocraticParty today.
So you have a tiny fringe ofloud lunatics who support things
like multiple genders, which islunacy.
I don't even want to go down.
There is no debate there.
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That's complete lunacy.
The fact that they're stickingto it so hard and fighting for
it so hard tells you why theprogressive wing of the
Democratic Party is literally acult.
But the other let's say 80% ofDemocrats or so, who understand
that it's a cult, are afraid tospeak up against it, hoping that
it will self-moderate over time, because they don't want to
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lose their cherished positionsand power within the party, even
though they know every word isbullshit.
Okay, the, the tribalization ofAmerica and the breaking down of
the economy into people basedon how much skin pigment they
have, or or you know whatperceived injustice took place
far in the past, or whatever itmight be.
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All of that is lunacy.
It's, it's indefensible, andmost Democrats know that.
I'm positive.
They just don't speak upbecause they lack courage.
And it's hard when you're in anoffice full of people in Los
Angeles, california, working inthe, let's say, the, the, the
film industry, and you know that, that there's and there's a
star in the room and you knowstars carry all kinds of within
(11:37):
that environment, all kinds ofweird power and everyone's.
You know the stars going on andon about how she you know, he
or she is usually a, she is, youknow, multisexual or whatever
the hell it might be.
And everyone's going yes, yes,of course.
Of course, those badRepublicans Listen.
That's lunacy and they know it.
They're just saying it becausethey're going along to get along
, because they lack courage.
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There's a reason why that's themain pillar of stoicism because
they lack courage.
There's a reason why that's themain pillar of stoicism,
because without it, nothing elsematters.
And so I think what has tohappen, since most people let's
also deal with human beings asthey are I can preach about
having courage.
None of them are going to haveit, and I don't think less of
them as human beings when I saythey.
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The broad mass of the DemocraticParty that goes along to get
along even though they knowtheir own party's positions are
insane and like, for example,mollifying the Hamas wing of the
party.
80% of Democrats think that'sinsane.
They're just going along to getalong and they talk themselves
into believing nonsense, andit's all based on propaganda.
(12:39):
If you ask anybody for aspecific instance of anything,
they can't cite it, no matterwhat the issue is, because
they've never looked deep enoughto do that.
They're going along to getalong because they're cowards.
They don't have the courage tostand up and tell them what
their common sense tells them,which is 80% of this is bullshit
.
Okay, it's nonsense.
We're not going to shape humanbeings, and the danger with
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progressivism is that itconsiders itself morally on the
high ground and since itconsiders itself morally just,
it doesn't feel like it has tojustify itself.
It even feels justified the liewhen the ends justifies the
means, because we're on themoral high ground.
That's the problem with it, andthe Democratic Party will
become a marginalized nothingunless they change.
And so what I'm going to do isrun for Congress as a
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libertarian, but I'm going totarget my campaign and I'm going
to attempt to get.
I don't really know how to, ifI'll be able to do that, but I'm
going to try to run both on thelibertarian and democratic
ticket in the primary.
I'm not sure if I'll besuccessful at that, but
regardless of whether I'msuccessful or not, that's the
campaign I'm going to run.
Sometimes you can manifest iteven though they won't let you
(13:42):
in.
I'll do it as a write-in forthe primaries, but the bottom
line is I'll be targetingDemocrats who know that their
party's nonsense, with the goalin mind being to create a new
Democratic Party.
A new Democratic Party.
That is essentially what theLibertarian Party should have
been if it didn't have itsanarcho, weirdo wing.
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That would turn off 90% ofvoters.
And, by the way, anarchocapitalists out there those of
you who are strict followers of,for example, murray Rothbard or
, today, michael Malice, who Ihave enormous respect for and I
have not read all of his work,but a lot of it enormous respect
for, and have not read all ofhis work, but a lot of it, and I
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have.
I agree with it in an idealworld and I understand that he's
very eloquent and can constructa world where volunteerism
seems to be dominant andprevalent, but I just don't
believe, after being in prisonand being up to my ass and the
worst of human nature, thatthat's a realistic point of view
.
Having said that, a new Democratparty that was socially very
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liberal and fiscally veryconservative would have a lot of
appeal to the broad mass ofAmericans who are that, after
Donald Trump is gone, as able asother people are, like JD Vance
or Marco Rubio or the rest.
These are all able people, butDonald Trump is a
once-in-a-lifetime figure.
He has that certain somethingthat can't be taught or learned.
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Jd Vance is an intellectualgiant, frankly, and extremely
erudite, but he's notnecessarily well, he's just not.
He doesn't have that certainnatural connection that Donald
Trump has that it's hard tofathom.
Maybe it'll show up later, butI feel like if it hasn't shown
up yet, it's not going to.
Having said all that, Iconsider him a remarkable human
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being and that's the other thing.
You know.
To be in opposition doesn't meanyou can't acknowledge when the
other side does something right.
So, for example, if I wereleading the New Democrat Party,
which again, and at its core, bythe way, would advocate
anti-politism, the new DemocratParty would say we are for near
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total personal freedom and weare for almost the strictest of
fiscal conservatism, but at thevery same time, we recognize
that life is life and there aresituations and we'll recognize
when the other side doessomething right.
(16:09):
So, for example, if we existedtoday, the New Democrats existed
today, we would say to DonaldTrump good job on closing the
border.
Now let's deal with the illegalimmigrants that are already
here, and the idea of roundingthem up with Nazis with their
faces covered is not acceptable.
There is a legitimate argumentto be made for a sane
immigration policy.
If you guys are interested inwhat my immigration ideas are,
(16:31):
there's a podcast about itearlier.
You'll be able to find it inthe titles on whatever streaming
service you're using or anypodcast service you're using,
we're listed on all of them.
Or any podcast service you'reusing, we're listed on all of
them.
But basically, there's a realdiscussion to be had on how to
deal with the illegal immigrantsalready here and we need them.
We need the tax revenue theygenerate, we need the
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productivity they generate.
A lot of the arguments thatTrump makes, like they lower
wages, are not true.
Or, if they are true, they'retrue to the benefit of the
millions of Americans whobenefit.
You know you have to.
I'll give you a really, reallygood example.
Okay, ups used to pride itselfon having the union involved in
its senior management.
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Yada, yada, yada.
Biden was president.
There was a strike at UPS.
Ups caved in and paid theaverage UPS driver.
Now and again if I'm wrongabout this, feel free to chime
in, but my source on this isJohn Stossel the average UPS
driver makes $175,000 a year asa result of that negotiation and
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the union, which was theTeamsters union, you know which
is the pro-Trump union, by theway came out.
And isn't this great.
And we won this great victoryfor workers.
And within a year, 20,000employees of UPS have been laid
off.
You know, there's only so manyways to pull it out.
So they got a raise for some ofthe employees and they got
20,000 of them fired.
And not everybody drives atruck at UPS.
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Someone is loading those trucksand somebody is unloading the
planes and all those otherthings that go.
I don't know their businessmodel, but there are a million
there's probably a millionemployees at UPS.
Anyway, we got 20,000 of themlaid off to get a few of them a
higher paycheck.
This is the point I make is youknow, life is more complicated.
So here we have a situation inimmigration where there's a
legitimate case to be made toargue with Donald Trump, but no
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one's making the legitimate casebecause they're too busy
opposing ice in the streets,because it's performance art.
You know, the Democratic Partyis being led by performance
artists and they need to ditchit and there needs to be a new
Democrat Party and that newdemocrat party needs to embrace
libertarianism under thedemocratic banner.
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And I I there could be anothername for the party.
I was thinking maybe it shouldbe called the jeffersonian party
, but the only reason that Idon't think that's a great idea
and I think it is is because ofthe people left in the
democratic party who realizedthat Thomas Jefferson likely,
although it's not definite couldhave been a nephew, might have
fathered some black children,but if he did see, historic
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great figures like ThomasJefferson didn't shit marble
guys.
I just want to put that on theside.
They were human beings and theymade judgments within the
context of their time thatreflected their time, including
slavery.
And I know that's hard tounderstand, but it's true.
In fact and let's just get overthis entire, just a quick
digression.
Slavery was invented by blackpeople and, yes, black people
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were enslaved in this country.
But they invented slaverybecause that's where all
civilization comes from, theAfrican continent, and slavery
is as old as prostitution, andthe first slaves were black, as
sure as God made little greenapples.
So I don't want to hear thiswhite guys enslave black people.
This is some unique event.
There's nothing unique about it.
Get over it.
And the new Democrat Party wouldsay that it's a history to be
(19:43):
discussed.
It's a legacy to be built upon,but it's not an excuse for
underperformance in the present.
But a new Democratic Partywouldn't pander.
It would offer solutions.
And the thing aboutanti-politism as the core
philosophy to the new DemocraticParty is people, when they're
not pursuing power and theydon't just say things to say it
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because they're trying to getreelected or raise money.
That's what anti-politism does.
It takes the reelection and themoney completely out of
politics and they're justspeaking their mind.
People are natural libertarians.
You don't even have to tellthem because libertarianism is
just a fancy word for commonsense.
If you really think about it, Imean, use the sense God gave
you.
It's the default.
It's why I think it's thesavior of the country long term,
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because of everybody who'sserving in office are basically
people who have done somethingwith their lives or over the age
of 35 and haven't committed acrime, which is basically the
guidelines for who's eligiblefor an or in the upper third of
income earners, which meansthey've climbed at least into
middle management.
So they've climbed the ladder,they've done everything the
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right way.
They've managed to reach somelevel of success.
That is the pool from where wewill derive our future
congresses and presidents andvice presidents and therefore
they will not be politicians.
They'll be normal level ofsuccess.
That is the pool from where wewill derive our future
Congresses and Presidents andVice Presidents, and therefore
they will not be politicians.
They'll be normal people, andnormal people have normal
concerns, and normal concernsare common sense, and common
sense is libertarianism, andlibertarianism should be the new
Democrat Party.
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That's what I'm saying andthat's what I'm going to end on
today, and I know that was arambling discussion, but I hope
I made some sense.
Anyway, we'll see what happens.
I'm going to run for Congressnext year and you know, as Lao
Tzu said in 600 BC, the founderof Taoism, the longest the
thousand mile journey isshortened by the first step.
That's what he said.
(21:26):
So that's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to take the firststep out here in Arizona.
Give it a shot, see if I cangain some traction with it,
maybe start a little movementand convert the disaster that
today is the Democratic Partyinto a meaningful opposition
party and, ultimately, themeaningful party in power.
When antipolitism becomes thelaw of the land and parties
simply evaporate.
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There are no political partiesin antipolitism.
Antipolitism is the goal of thenew Democrat party, as I
envision it to ultimately makeitself obsolete by introducing
anti-politism which eliminatesparties, because without
elections, who needs them?
And it goes on from there.
Pick up a copy of A RadicalReset on Amazon, my friends.
It is available to you inKindle, paperback or hardcover,
(22:11):
let's see.
Share this with your friends.
This is the de rigueur thing Ishould say every single time
that I always forget to say whenI start but please share, share
the podcast.
I think we at least have fun ina different discussion.
Anyway, I don't know, you tellme.
I don't think I'm any nuttierthan anybody else and I'm a
little entertaining.
Anyway, I hope.
Have a beautiful rest.
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