June 9, 2025 • 25 mins
A call for the Democratic Party to embrace classical liberalism as a solution to their identity crisis, with proposals for a revitalized alternative to Republican nationalism focused on smaller government and state-level welfare programs.
• Discussion of political party evolution and the potential dissolution of the Democratic Party as we know it
• Analysis of why Republicans have clear positions while Democrats appear to be simply defending a failing status quo
• Exploration of how Democrats have lost connection with young men by rejecting traditional masculine values
• Proposal for Democrats to adopt libertarian principles: socially liberal, fiscally conservative
• Warning about the impending debt crisis and the need for alternatives to both current parties
• Introduction to Antipolitism as a system to prevent democracy's historical slide into tyranny
Pick up a copy of "A Radical Reset" on Amazon to learn more about Antipolitism as an alternative to the current political system.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning gang.
Happy Monday, june the 9th.
It's me, herbie, your host at ARadical Reset.
First, big change I changed thename of the podcast from the
Spiritual Agnostic to A RadicalReset because, let's be honest,
I was descending into thedirection of talking about the
system of anti-politism, mostlyanyway.
So you know, in any new ventureyou make tweaks.
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Hope you like the new name,which is really the old name,
and I hope you like the new logo, which looks like me, although
a little sterner than I usuallyam.
But you know what can I say?
You've got to look serious forthese kind of things.
Anyway, today we're going totalk about what's going on in
the world today.
What's going on in the worldtoday.
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So, in in uh, los Angeles, asyou all know, over the last
weekend there've been a seriesof uh riots that are being
quelled by the national at thispoint, the national guard,
president Trump, senate, thenational guard, the democratic
party, is doing what it alwaysdoes lately, which is pick
exactly the wrong way to go.
You know, one of theinteresting things about our
political evolution lately is, Ibelieve we're living in a time
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when, at the very minimum, oneof the two major parties is
going to cease to exist as weunderstand it, and there have
been other times in our historywhen this sort of thing has
happened.
You know, the Republican Partyis just an evolution from the
Whigs who preceded them.
That would be not W-I-G-S forthose of you, but W-H-I-G-S, and
I don't really know where thatname comes from, but anyway, the
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Whigs.
And Abraham Lincoln was electedas the first Republican
president and I think it hadsomething to do with the slavery
positions and so on and soforth.
I'm really not a student onthat transition, but the one
party ceased to exist andanother party took its place,
and we're about to have thatagain, only this time it's going
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to be on the Democratic side,because what's going on now in
the Democratic Party is a debatefor the soul of the party.
What is the Democratic Party?
I want to speak this morning toyou Democrats out there,
primarily because what you'redoing is a guaranteed act of
self-immolation.
So if you went to a Republicantoday and you said to them, what
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does the Republican Party standfor?
The answer is going to be someversion of MAGA Make America
Great Again.
And how do we do that?
We reduce taxes, we reduceregulations, we create an
environment for fair trade sothat we're not being taken
advantage of by foreigncountries.
We even up the trade deficit,which shows how much money is
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leaving the country,unnecessarily, by the way.
I don't agree with any of this.
I'm just saying that aRepublican.
The point is I'm not going togo through everything, but a
Republican can easily tick off.
We're anti-illegal immigration.
We want to shut the border.
We're anti-abortion.
Abortion's been returned to thestates.
That was a huge victory for theRepublicans, as Trump gave the
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speech in Saudi Arabia.
We're for commerce overconflict.
No more meddling in theinternal affairs of other
countries.
In other words, the point I'mtelling you is the Republicans
have a list of positions wherethey have an actual position.
Now, you may agree with theposition or you may disagree
with the position, but it is aposition where the Democrats
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their position I know I'moverusing the word position, I
wish I could think of adifferent word their perspective
on issues.
They don't have any ideals left.
All they're doing is defendingthe status quo, and the status
quo is corrupt and the statusquo has crossed the line, or, as
I like to put it, jumped theshark.
So what I mean by jumped theshark, which is an obscure
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reference to an old TV sitcomcalled Happy Days, when the
central character a guy namedFonzie for those of you old
enough to remember played byHenry Winkler, no less as a
tough guy, because Henry Winklertoday is just a big smush
button, but anyway, he played atough guy back in the day and
they were running out of plotsand at one point his character,
fonzie Arthur Fonzirello, wasgoing to jump his motorcycle.
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This was all set in the 50s,kind of an American graffiti
sort of setting for that obscurereference.
I'm dating myself terribly, butthat doesn't really matter.
Anyway, he literally jumps ashark tank and it was such a
stupid episode and the show wentoff the air shortly thereafter.
And ever since then, wheneversomeone goes just a little too
far, it's called jumping theshark.
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It's when you run out of ideasyou jump the shark.
The Democratic Party has jumpedthe shark and they jumped the
shark on the transgendermovement.
That's where they didthemselves in.
You can't undo it, they can'tpull back from it.
At least they feel that way.
A rational Democrat would standup and say you know what this
transgender thing is?
Nonsense, this illegalimmigration thing?
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That was our fault.
That was a gigantic mistake.
And the border has to be closed.
And this reparations thing isstupid.
And you know, this reparationsthing is stupid.
And the welfare state has failedand we've done nothing but
institutionalized poverty,converting it from something
that used to be temporary into apermanent lifestyle that people
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are born, raised, die withinand have no hope of escaping,
and the list goes on.
The drug war, etc.
Etc.
All cetera, et cetera.
All of this, okay, these areall failed policies.
The welfare state has failed.
The whole idea ofredistributing wealth to lift
those who are less fortunatethan ourselves has turned out,
as was predictable to be, agigantic failure.
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By the way, the reason it's agigantic failure is it's just.
It's never worked in history.
You can't take from the rich andgive the money to the poor, and
the poor do nothing for it, butbe poor and think that they're
going to improve their lives,their problem.
Poor people are poor notbecause of bad luck or anything.
They're poor because they makeshit decisions.
They make vile, terribledecisions when they find
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themselves with any money ahead,rather than think to themselves
maybe I should put a fewdollars away, make a little
cushion, maybe I should be alittle smarter, maybe I should
finish.
They just don't make thosedecisions.
Okay, poor people are poor.
There are three things you haveto do in the United States not
to be poor.
It's really very simple.
The first is okay, finish highschool.
Now, unfortunately, high schoolhas become such a joke thanks
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to the poisonous publiceducation system in our country,
which the teachers unions havebeen fighting changing since the
turn of the 19th to the 20thcentury.
I kid you not, we're stillusing the same basic teaching
techniques of a teacher standingin front of a class drawing
things on a board that todaymight be white but used to be a
chalkboard, but otherwise it'sthe same boring crap, only it's
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gotten worse.
It used to be, at least.
It was tough and you could fail.
Now they've taken away failure.
So kids are graduating fromhigh school, and I'm not
exaggerating when I sayfunctionally illiterate.
They can barely read their ownnames and they're graduating
from high school.
But let's assume that you wentto a decent high school, at
least relatively decent.
Number one you got to finishhigh.
Don't get married until youhave to.
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What's the word I'm looking for?
Avoid having children beforethe age of 21 and don't have
children outside of marriage.
If you do those three things,you will be successful in
America.
You will have a nice youngfamily and live to be, live as
close to happily ever after aspossible within the American
dream.
If you can do those threethings Finish school, don't get
married too young, don't havechildren out of wedlock, and
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then move on in life happilymarried over the age of 21,.
Yada, yada, yada.
It's very, very simple.
America is still the place tomake it in the world, but
somehow the Democratic Party hasbecome the champion of sloth,
laziness, very little effort,all dominated by an intellectual
elite who believes itself to bemorally superior.
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The reason that, for example,if you've had the experience of
talking to a Democrat these dayswhich is, by the way,
synonymous term with progressiveand you get on the subject of
like, for example, let's use theobvious incendiary topic of
Trump.
You get on the subject of like,for example, let's use the
obvious incendiary topic ofTrump, and you say why do you
hate Trump?
And they'll go into a litany ofthings that have been debunked.
You know he's a Russian stoogeand he was on the Epstein list
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and you know everything.
He's going to be a dictator,he's a Hitler.
None of these things areactually facts and evidence.
These are all just repetitionsof a propaganda rather than a
position.
So if you said to a Republican,what do you think of Donald
Trump, they'd go well.
He's far from a perfect person.
I know this because I have alot of Republican friends.
None of them think he's aperfect person, unlike the
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caricature that's painted by thefar left.
They don't think he walks onwater.
They think he's a deeply flawedperson, as are we all, whose
heart is in the right place, whohas seen the light and who's
guiding the country because he'sin a unique position to do so.
From their point of view, theDemocrats don't have a point of
view other than digging ourheels.
Support their one power base,which is public employee unions,
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which, by the way, should beillegal.
Public employees should not beallowed to unionize.
You shouldn't be able to strikethe taxpayers.
That's just completely.
It's ridiculous.
It's not something that everexisted before President
Carter's and we should do awaywith it now.
But anyway, I think it wasPresident Carter.
If I'm wrong about that, writeme a letter.
Anyway, so they basicallysupport a status quo that's
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wildly unpopular outside of theelites and it's going to grow
increasingly unpopular.
There's no way to sell.
For example, I saw a reallyfunny cartoon the other day
about.
It was on a YouTube channelcalled Freedom Tunes and it was
about the Democrats in the storywhere they're spending $20
million to learn how to messageto young men.
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And you know, it's basicallythese two radical feminist women
with, you know, purple and pinkhair.
Well, actually, one of them isblack, One of them is white,
with purple and pink hair andand fat and a, and a man who is,
you know, let's just say not analpha male, and they're talking
about all the differentdemocratic policies and they
have three ordinary men.
Anyway, they get down to theball kicking machine and they
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kind of skip over it and thethree men go wait a minute, wait
a minute, why don't you justget rid of the ball kicking
machine and we can listen toyour other positions?
No, no, they just try toexplain the ball kicking machine
to them in different ways andthe men keep saying no, it's the
ball kicking machine, just getrid of the ball kicking machine.
Well, maybe if we explain toyou why you need to have your
balls kicked, and this goes onand on.
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This is the problem with theDemocratic Party They've lost
young men altogether Young menare.
They don't.
Again, they don't necessarilythink Donald Trump is perfect or
the Republican Party is perfect, but it doesn't shy away from
masculine values.
You know, when the Secretary ofDefense, pete Hegseth, says
we're reinstilling the warriorspirit, and then enlistments go
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through the roof instantly, thatis a sign that men in America
primarily men it's not thatwomen don't enlist, but it's
primarily still male that men inAmerica are longing to be
allowed to be men, and that'swhat the Republicans allow them.
There's no, you can't sell tohalf the population that they
need to be women when they'remen.
Forget it.
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And I'm not saying that theDemocratic Party is advocating
everybody becomes transgender.
Although the term transgenderis ludicrous, there's no way to
transition a gender okay.
When you start swimming againstobjective reality, you're
doomed.
So anyway.
I could go on and on and on.
We all know these examples.
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You've listened to all the otherpodcasts.
I'm just going to end uprepeating what other people have
said.
You know, you want to hear areal hatchet job on the
Democrats?
Go listen to podcasts likehatchet jobs, the wrong word.
You want to hear a toughassessment of Democrats?
Go watch Like Hatchet John's,the wrong word.
You want to hear a toughassessment of Democrats, go
watch the morning meeting.
2a on the morning meeting andtheir morning meeting with Mark
Halperin Excellent podcast.
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Go watch All In.
Go watch Joe Rogan.
Go watch Trigonometry.
There's tons of podcasts on theright which do a very good job
of pointing out that theDemocrats just don't have any
other position but degeneracy.
The entire Democratic Party hasbecome the poster child for
degeneracy and decadence, andthat's not anything you can't
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sell.
That other than to pull peopledown into your slime.
And that's why you're seeing,for example and thank God for
this Gen Z is returning tochurch.
What a wonderful, wonderfulhappenstance returning to church
, what a wonderful, wonderfulhappenstance.
And they're going to churchbecause they want to hear a
traditional philosophy preachedfrom a pulpit by people who
don't hate them.
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This is what young men want.
There is no male issue.
Men just want to be allowed tobe men.
They want to protect, they wantto provide, they want to be the
center of the family, as natureintended it to be, and the
Republican parties go along withthat.
They're not anti-women, theyjust believe that women are
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probably, by and large, muchhappier in the context of a
traditional family, havingchildren at a relatively young
age when they can do it and nothave any issues and live happily
ever after.
And to the extent that theyhaven't done, that is why women
have become increasingly unhappy.
That's all Republican position.
Now the Democrats, they're justout.
What can they possibly do?
None of them are going to.
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You're not going to see NancyPelosi and Hakeem Jeffries and
Charles Schumer and all the restof them stand up and go.
We were wrong about everything,which is what they are.
They're wrong about almostevery key issue.
That's the problem.
So what do they?
Not only it's not that they'rejust wrong on the issue, they're
wrong on the fundamentalstandard of decency for each
issue.
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It's indecent to promote theidea of transgenderism.
It's indecent to allow childrento take drugs or to be operated
upon.
It's indecent to allow childrento take drugs or to be operated
upon.
It's indecent to allow abortionwithout restriction up until
the ninth month.
These things are indecent andit flies in the face of people's
sense of decency.
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For example, I'm pro-choice butI'm still grossed out by third
trimester abortions, as is mostof America.
But the Democratic Party doesn'twant to realize that they can't
be reasonably pro-choice.
So what can take their place?
And the answer is, I think thatthere's a substantial wing of
the Democratic Party that is, infact, libertarian.
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Now, they don't speak upbecause they're surrounded by
you know, they're not surrounded, I'm sorry.
It's a loud, vociferous, nastyminority.
It's the tail wagging the dog,but the dog is basically
libertarian, which is to saysocially liberal and fiscally
conservative.
And if the Democratic Party wereto embrace libertarianism, okay
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, and come up with a programthat says this we're for
unrestricted free speech, we'refor sane immigration, a strong
border, but a sane immigrationpolicy that allows in immigrants
that have something to bring tothe table.
That therefore due process,which is a good issue when you
don't pick a poster child who'sa gangbanger.
I mean, it's just amazing to methe tenor of these democratic
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politicians.
But anyway, a due process, alegal process supporting the
institution of the courts andthe justice system, that's all a
legitimate issue, as long asyou don't use it to support
something like illegalimmigration.
Get out of the way of that.
It's okay to agree with theopposition on certain key issues
.
The public isn't looking foryou to disagree on every issue.
The public is looking for youto differentiate yourself, and
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the way you differentiateyourself is to be libertarian.
Be for much smaller government.
Be anti-tariff.
Tariffs are dumb.
Be a free trade party.
Be a party of advocate for anelimination of the income tax
and for, let's say, a nationalsales tax or a value added tax
to replace it Not to supplant it, but replace it.
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People would love you for that.
Get ahead of the Republicans onsome of these issues.
Be a libertarian.
Say the welfare state at thefederal level has failed, but it
could still work at the locallevel and begin advocating that
the welfare system betransitioned from a federal
program to state programs andeach state can devise their own
version of welfare based uponthe demographics of their
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individual states, since all 50states are basically little,
small countries.
I can go on and on.
There's lots of positions thatare very libertarian.
That would be in line with whatDemocrats believe.
On abortion pro-choice, butwith reasonable restrictions
Okay, that would take the steam.
70% of the American people arepro-choice, but 70% of the
American people think abortionis murder.
I'm being again.
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This is based on polling andI'm being roughly that.
That's around the number, andthe numbers can vary by a few
points one way or the other, butwhat that's telling you is that
most people want women to havea right to choose, but they also
don't want them to have theright to choose to murder a
viable infant, and that's not anunreasonable.
You can give an inch, okay, youcan become reasonable.
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You don't have to be a well fora guy with a podcast called A
Radical Reset.
This sounds crazy, but what I'mtelling you is Democrats, if
you want to survive as a party,you need to realize that the
term liberal was hijacked.
Libertarians are classicalliberals.
The word libertarian is aninvented word because the term
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liberal was taken by thesocialists, and liberalism is
not socialism.
You should abandon allsocialist concepts.
Socialism is a failed ideology.
Get it out concepts.
Socialism is a failed ideology.
Get it out the idea ofredistributed wealth, shared
wealth, confiscatory wealth,that's just.
It's a failure.
You know, become like.
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I'll tell you who you shouldemulate.
Democrats, you should emulatethe Swedes and the Norwegians
and the Danes, who lots ofpeople in this country foolishly
believe we're socialists, butthey're not.
They have a welfare state thatworks, but it works because they
have a country.
All three of those countriesare basically the size of
American states with smallpopulations.
The most populous country inScandinavia is Sweden.
It's got like five and a halfmillion people, or nine and a
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half million people, I mean,that's the population of Los
Angeles, that's the wholecountry of Sweden, and they're
the biggest one, okay, in termsof population, but the thing is
they're all Swedes, and so theanalogy could be made that since
, for example, they have afairly good national healthcare
system, but in a country whereeveryone is uniform and a small
population, maybe healthcare canwork on a state level if
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properly designed and, you know,with proper safeguards.
Anyway, democrats, you canadvocate for a social safety net
at the state level and still beDemocrats, but be bending to
rationality and change the wholeconversation and make a
constructive contribution to thenational debate.
Anyway, that's what I think Now.
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What I really think is that allof this is going to end up
failing, and we're going to.
We are already in the beginningstages of a debt spiral, and
Donald Trump's great failure, inmy opinion, is the one that's
obvious.
That's right in front of us.
He's not doing anything aboutthe national debt.
He's counting on changing thegrowth trajectory, and I hope
he's right.
I hope that our economy startsgrowing faster than the debt,
and he's right.
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Then the debt would be no issueat all.
Economy starts growing fasterthan the debt and he's right
Then the debt would be no issueat all.
Think of the debt as a mortgage.
As long as you can make yourpayments, you're good to go, but
you don't have to pay it alloff in one day.
As long as you're making yourpayments and then slowly
chipping away at it, you're goodto go.
Well, that's not where we areand I don't think that's where
we're headed, and we will see.
Ultimately, I think we're goingto come to what Jamie Dimon
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called about a week, week and ahalf ago.
Jamie Dimon, for those of youwho aren't familiar, is the
chairman of JPMorgan Chase.
He's the most powerful bankerin the United States and the
world and he believes the bondmarket's going to crack, and I
think he's right.
That means that we won't beable to sell our bonds and
that'll be the kickoff of a debtspiral where the Federal
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Reserve has to buy bonds andit's going to be very
inflationary, and yada, yada,yada.
That's another podcast foranother day.
But when that day comes and Ibelieve it's an inevitability
then we're going to need analternative, because tyranny,
democracy we've destroyed ourrepublic and in its place we've
created the democracy, anddemocracy is mob rule.
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To quote, I think it's GKChesterton.
Tell me if I'm wrong about that, guys.
I think it was GK Chesterton,but he said democracy is when
the masses get what they wantgood and hard, I'm paraphrasing
it, but that's what we'regetting.
We're getting democracy goodand hard and we're going to end
up paying the price for it andwe need to return to a republic.
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And the new republic I callantipolitism.
I'm presenting it as analternative to the tyranny that
has historically always beenwhat happens to democracy.
Democracy historically alwaysends in tyranny.
What's the alternative?
Antipolitism?
How do you learn about it?
You pick up a copy of A RadicalReset.
That's the book and manifestoof anti-politism available to
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you on Amazon right at this veryminute.
A Radical Reset by me, herbieKay, the author and your host
here on A Radical Reset podcast.
And that's where I'm going toleave it.
Today, the Democrats need to notbe Democrats.
I think they should callthemselves the New Democratic
Party or the Democratic LibertyParty.
They could come up with anynumber of alternatives, but it's
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time for the Democrats to fadeaway and be replaced by a new,
classically liberal party Iwon't use the word libertarian,
classically liberal, which isthe same thing, liberal, which
is the same thing, and as analternative to the nationalist,
statist, interventionalist,tariff-endorsing Republicans.
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And then you can have a reallygood debate on issues that
people care about, where peoplehave a legitimate choice, and
it's what would happen in ananti-political government that I
advocate, which, again, you canread about in the Radical Reset
.
That's it for now.
Don't forget to tell yourfriends to check out this
podcast, because it's fabulous,if I do say so myself.
Actually, I really don't knowif it's fabulous or not.
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I'm just plugging away, baby,just a working guy plugging away
, and the next time you and Iwill talk to each other is
Wednesday, and until then I sayto you have a beautiful,
beautiful next couple of days.
Until I speak to you next,peace out, god bless you and God
bless America.
Good morning gang.
Happy Monday, june the 9th.
It's me, herbie, your host at ARadical Reset.
First, big change I changed thename of the podcast from the
Spiritual Agnostic to A RadicalReset because, let's be honest,
I was descending into thedirection of talking about the
system of anti-politism, mostlyanyway.
So you know, in any new ventureyou make tweaks.
(00:23):
Hope you like the new name,which is really the old name,
and I hope you like the new logo, which looks like me, although
a little sterner than I usuallyam.
But you know what can I say?
You've got to look serious forthese kind of things.
Anyway, today we're going totalk about what's going on in
the world today.
What's going on in the worldtoday.
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So, in in uh, los Angeles, asyou all know, over the last
weekend there've been a seriesof uh riots that are being
quelled by the national at thispoint, the national guard,
president Trump, senate, thenational guard, the democratic
party, is doing what it alwaysdoes lately, which is pick
exactly the wrong way to go.
You know, one of theinteresting things about our
political evolution lately is, Ibelieve we're living in a time
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when, at the very minimum, oneof the two major parties is
going to cease to exist as weunderstand it, and there have
been other times in our historywhen this sort of thing has
happened.
You know, the Republican Partyis just an evolution from the
Whigs who preceded them.
That would be not W-I-G-S forthose of you, but W-H-I-G-S, and
I don't really know where thatname comes from, but anyway, the
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Whigs.
And Abraham Lincoln was electedas the first Republican
president and I think it hadsomething to do with the slavery
positions and so on and soforth.
I'm really not a student onthat transition, but the one
party ceased to exist andanother party took its place,
and we're about to have thatagain, only this time it's going
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to be on the Democratic side,because what's going on now in
the Democratic Party is a debatefor the soul of the party.
What is the Democratic Party?
I want to speak this morning toyou Democrats out there,
primarily because what you'redoing is a guaranteed act of
self-immolation.
So if you went to a Republicantoday and you said to them, what
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does the Republican Party standfor?
The answer is going to be someversion of MAGA Make America
Great Again.
And how do we do that?
We reduce taxes, we reduceregulations, we create an
environment for fair trade sothat we're not being taken
advantage of by foreigncountries.
We even up the trade deficit,which shows how much money is
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leaving the country,unnecessarily, by the way.
I don't agree with any of this.
I'm just saying that aRepublican.
The point is I'm not going togo through everything, but a
Republican can easily tick off.
We're anti-illegal immigration.
We want to shut the border.
We're anti-abortion.
Abortion's been returned to thestates.
That was a huge victory for theRepublicans, as Trump gave the
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speech in Saudi Arabia.
We're for commerce overconflict.
No more meddling in theinternal affairs of other
countries.
In other words, the point I'mtelling you is the Republicans
have a list of positions wherethey have an actual position.
Now, you may agree with theposition or you may disagree
with the position, but it is aposition where the Democrats
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their position I know I'moverusing the word position, I
wish I could think of adifferent word their perspective
on issues.
They don't have any ideals left.
All they're doing is defendingthe status quo, and the status
quo is corrupt and the statusquo has crossed the line, or, as
I like to put it, jumped theshark.
So what I mean by jumped theshark, which is an obscure
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reference to an old TV sitcomcalled Happy Days, when the
central character a guy namedFonzie for those of you old
enough to remember played byHenry Winkler, no less as a
tough guy, because Henry Winklertoday is just a big smush
button, but anyway, he played atough guy back in the day and
they were running out of plotsand at one point his character,
fonzie Arthur Fonzirello, wasgoing to jump his motorcycle.
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This was all set in the 50s,kind of an American graffiti
sort of setting for that obscurereference.
I'm dating myself terribly, butthat doesn't really matter.
Anyway, he literally jumps ashark tank and it was such a
stupid episode and the show wentoff the air shortly thereafter.
And ever since then, wheneversomeone goes just a little too
far, it's called jumping theshark.
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It's when you run out of ideasyou jump the shark.
The Democratic Party has jumpedthe shark and they jumped the
shark on the transgendermovement.
That's where they didthemselves in.
You can't undo it, they can'tpull back from it.
At least they feel that way.
A rational Democrat would standup and say you know what this
transgender thing is?
Nonsense, this illegalimmigration thing?
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That was our fault.
That was a gigantic mistake.
And the border has to be closed.
And this reparations thing isstupid.
And you know, this reparationsthing is stupid.
And the welfare state has failedand we've done nothing but
institutionalized poverty,converting it from something
that used to be temporary into apermanent lifestyle that people
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are born, raised, die withinand have no hope of escaping,
and the list goes on.
The drug war, etc.
Etc.
All cetera, et cetera.
All of this, okay, these areall failed policies.
The welfare state has failed.
The whole idea ofredistributing wealth to lift
those who are less fortunatethan ourselves has turned out,
as was predictable to be, agigantic failure.
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By the way, the reason it's agigantic failure is it's just.
It's never worked in history.
You can't take from the rich andgive the money to the poor, and
the poor do nothing for it, butbe poor and think that they're
going to improve their lives,their problem.
Poor people are poor notbecause of bad luck or anything.
They're poor because they makeshit decisions.
They make vile, terribledecisions when they find
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themselves with any money ahead,rather than think to themselves
maybe I should put a fewdollars away, make a little
cushion, maybe I should be alittle smarter, maybe I should
finish.
They just don't make thosedecisions.
Okay, poor people are poor.
There are three things you haveto do in the United States not
to be poor.
It's really very simple.
The first is okay, finish highschool.
Now, unfortunately, high schoolhas become such a joke thanks
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to the poisonous publiceducation system in our country,
which the teachers unions havebeen fighting changing since the
turn of the 19th to the 20thcentury.
I kid you not, we're stillusing the same basic teaching
techniques of a teacher standingin front of a class drawing
things on a board that todaymight be white but used to be a
chalkboard, but otherwise it'sthe same boring crap, only it's
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gotten worse.
It used to be, at least.
It was tough and you could fail.
Now they've taken away failure.
So kids are graduating fromhigh school, and I'm not
exaggerating when I sayfunctionally illiterate.
They can barely read their ownnames and they're graduating
from high school.
But let's assume that you wentto a decent high school, at
least relatively decent.
Number one you got to finishhigh.
Don't get married until youhave to.
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What's the word I'm looking for?
Avoid having children beforethe age of 21 and don't have
children outside of marriage.
If you do those three things,you will be successful in
America.
You will have a nice youngfamily and live to be, live as
close to happily ever after aspossible within the American
dream.
If you can do those threethings Finish school, don't get
married too young, don't havechildren out of wedlock, and
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then move on in life happilymarried over the age of 21,.
Yada, yada, yada.
It's very, very simple.
America is still the place tomake it in the world, but
somehow the Democratic Party hasbecome the champion of sloth,
laziness, very little effort,all dominated by an intellectual
elite who believes itself to bemorally superior.
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The reason that, for example,if you've had the experience of
talking to a Democrat these dayswhich is, by the way,
synonymous term with progressiveand you get on the subject of
like, for example, let's use theobvious incendiary topic of
Trump.
You get on the subject of like,for example, let's use the
obvious incendiary topic ofTrump, and you say why do you
hate Trump?
And they'll go into a litany ofthings that have been debunked.
You know he's a Russian stoogeand he was on the Epstein list
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and you know everything.
He's going to be a dictator,he's a Hitler.
None of these things areactually facts and evidence.
These are all just repetitionsof a propaganda rather than a
position.
So if you said to a Republican,what do you think of Donald
Trump, they'd go well.
He's far from a perfect person.
I know this because I have alot of Republican friends.
None of them think he's aperfect person, unlike the
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caricature that's painted by thefar left.
They don't think he walks onwater.
They think he's a deeply flawedperson, as are we all, whose
heart is in the right place, whohas seen the light and who's
guiding the country because he'sin a unique position to do so.
From their point of view, theDemocrats don't have a point of
view other than digging ourheels.
Support their one power base,which is public employee unions,
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which, by the way, should beillegal.
Public employees should not beallowed to unionize.
You shouldn't be able to strikethe taxpayers.
That's just completely.
It's ridiculous.
It's not something that everexisted before President
Carter's and we should do awaywith it now.
But anyway, I think it wasPresident Carter.
If I'm wrong about that, writeme a letter.
Anyway, so they basicallysupport a status quo that's
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wildly unpopular outside of theelites and it's going to grow
increasingly unpopular.
There's no way to sell.
For example, I saw a reallyfunny cartoon the other day
about.
It was on a YouTube channelcalled Freedom Tunes and it was
about the Democrats in the storywhere they're spending $20
million to learn how to messageto young men.
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And you know, it's basicallythese two radical feminist women
with, you know, purple and pinkhair.
Well, actually, one of them isblack, One of them is white,
with purple and pink hair andand fat and a, and a man who is,
you know, let's just say not analpha male, and they're talking
about all the differentdemocratic policies and they
have three ordinary men.
Anyway, they get down to theball kicking machine and they
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kind of skip over it and thethree men go wait a minute, wait
a minute, why don't you justget rid of the ball kicking
machine and we can listen toyour other positions?
No, no, they just try toexplain the ball kicking machine
to them in different ways andthe men keep saying no, it's the
ball kicking machine, just getrid of the ball kicking machine.
Well, maybe if we explain toyou why you need to have your
balls kicked, and this goes onand on.
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This is the problem with theDemocratic Party They've lost
young men altogether Young menare.
They don't.
Again, they don't necessarilythink Donald Trump is perfect or
the Republican Party is perfect, but it doesn't shy away from
masculine values.
You know, when the Secretary ofDefense, pete Hegseth, says
we're reinstilling the warriorspirit, and then enlistments go
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through the roof instantly, thatis a sign that men in America
primarily men it's not thatwomen don't enlist, but it's
primarily still male that men inAmerica are longing to be
allowed to be men, and that'swhat the Republicans allow them.
There's no, you can't sell tohalf the population that they
need to be women when they'remen.
Forget it.
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And I'm not saying that theDemocratic Party is advocating
everybody becomes transgender.
Although the term transgenderis ludicrous, there's no way to
transition a gender okay.
When you start swimming againstobjective reality, you're
doomed.
So anyway.
I could go on and on and on.
We all know these examples.
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You've listened to all the otherpodcasts.
I'm just going to end uprepeating what other people have
said.
You know, you want to hear areal hatchet job on the
Democrats?
Go listen to podcasts likehatchet jobs, the wrong word.
You want to hear a toughassessment of Democrats?
Go watch Like Hatchet John's,the wrong word.
You want to hear a toughassessment of Democrats, go
watch the morning meeting.
2a on the morning meeting andtheir morning meeting with Mark
Halperin Excellent podcast.
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Go watch All In.
Go watch Joe Rogan.
Go watch Trigonometry.
There's tons of podcasts on theright which do a very good job
of pointing out that theDemocrats just don't have any
other position but degeneracy.
The entire Democratic Party hasbecome the poster child for
degeneracy and decadence, andthat's not anything you can't
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sell.
That other than to pull peopledown into your slime.
And that's why you're seeing,for example and thank God for
this Gen Z is returning tochurch.
What a wonderful, wonderfulhappenstance returning to church
, what a wonderful, wonderfulhappenstance.
And they're going to churchbecause they want to hear a
traditional philosophy preachedfrom a pulpit by people who
don't hate them.
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This is what young men want.
There is no male issue.
Men just want to be allowed tobe men.
They want to protect, they wantto provide, they want to be the
center of the family, as natureintended it to be, and the
Republican parties go along withthat.
They're not anti-women, theyjust believe that women are
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probably, by and large, muchhappier in the context of a
traditional family, havingchildren at a relatively young
age when they can do it and nothave any issues and live happily
ever after.
And to the extent that theyhaven't done, that is why women
have become increasingly unhappy.
That's all Republican position.
Now the Democrats, they're justout.
What can they possibly do?
None of them are going to.
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You're not going to see NancyPelosi and Hakeem Jeffries and
Charles Schumer and all the restof them stand up and go.
We were wrong about everything,which is what they are.
They're wrong about almostevery key issue.
That's the problem.
So what do they?
Not only it's not that they'rejust wrong on the issue, they're
wrong on the fundamentalstandard of decency for each
issue.
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It's indecent to promote theidea of transgenderism.
It's indecent to allow childrento take drugs or to be operated
upon.
It's indecent to allow childrento take drugs or to be operated
upon.
It's indecent to allow abortionwithout restriction up until
the ninth month.
These things are indecent andit flies in the face of people's
sense of decency.
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For example, I'm pro-choice butI'm still grossed out by third
trimester abortions, as is mostof America.
But the Democratic Party doesn'twant to realize that they can't
be reasonably pro-choice.
So what can take their place?
And the answer is, I think thatthere's a substantial wing of
the Democratic Party that is, infact, libertarian.
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Now, they don't speak upbecause they're surrounded by
you know, they're not surrounded, I'm sorry.
It's a loud, vociferous, nastyminority.
It's the tail wagging the dog,but the dog is basically
libertarian, which is to saysocially liberal and fiscally
conservative.
And if the Democratic Party wereto embrace libertarianism, okay
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, and come up with a programthat says this we're for
unrestricted free speech, we'refor sane immigration, a strong
border, but a sane immigrationpolicy that allows in immigrants
that have something to bring tothe table.
That therefore due process,which is a good issue when you
don't pick a poster child who'sa gangbanger.
I mean, it's just amazing to methe tenor of these democratic
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politicians.
But anyway, a due process, alegal process supporting the
institution of the courts andthe justice system, that's all a
legitimate issue, as long asyou don't use it to support
something like illegalimmigration.
Get out of the way of that.
It's okay to agree with theopposition on certain key issues
.
The public isn't looking foryou to disagree on every issue.
The public is looking for youto differentiate yourself, and
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the way you differentiateyourself is to be libertarian.
Be for much smaller government.
Be anti-tariff.
Tariffs are dumb.
Be a free trade party.
Be a party of advocate for anelimination of the income tax
and for, let's say, a nationalsales tax or a value added tax
to replace it Not to supplant it, but replace it.
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People would love you for that.
Get ahead of the Republicans onsome of these issues.
Be a libertarian.
Say the welfare state at thefederal level has failed, but it
could still work at the locallevel and begin advocating that
the welfare system betransitioned from a federal
program to state programs andeach state can devise their own
version of welfare based uponthe demographics of their
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individual states, since all 50states are basically little,
small countries.
I can go on and on.
There's lots of positions thatare very libertarian.
That would be in line with whatDemocrats believe.
On abortion pro-choice, butwith reasonable restrictions
Okay, that would take the steam.
70% of the American people arepro-choice, but 70% of the
American people think abortionis murder.
I'm being again.
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This is based on polling andI'm being roughly that.
That's around the number, andthe numbers can vary by a few
points one way or the other, butwhat that's telling you is that
most people want women to havea right to choose, but they also
don't want them to have theright to choose to murder a
viable infant, and that's not anunreasonable.
You can give an inch, okay, youcan become reasonable.
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You don't have to be a well fora guy with a podcast called A
Radical Reset.
This sounds crazy, but what I'mtelling you is Democrats, if
you want to survive as a party,you need to realize that the
term liberal was hijacked.
Libertarians are classicalliberals.
The word libertarian is aninvented word because the term
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liberal was taken by thesocialists, and liberalism is
not socialism.
You should abandon allsocialist concepts.
Socialism is a failed ideology.
Get it out concepts.
Socialism is a failed ideology.
Get it out the idea ofredistributed wealth, shared
wealth, confiscatory wealth,that's just.
It's a failure.
You know, become like.
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I'll tell you who you shouldemulate.
Democrats, you should emulatethe Swedes and the Norwegians
and the Danes, who lots ofpeople in this country foolishly
believe we're socialists, butthey're not.
They have a welfare state thatworks, but it works because they
have a country.
All three of those countriesare basically the size of
American states with smallpopulations.
The most populous country inScandinavia is Sweden.
It's got like five and a halfmillion people, or nine and a
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half million people, I mean,that's the population of Los
Angeles, that's the wholecountry of Sweden, and they're
the biggest one, okay, in termsof population, but the thing is
they're all Swedes, and so theanalogy could be made that since
, for example, they have afairly good national healthcare
system, but in a country whereeveryone is uniform and a small
population, maybe healthcare canwork on a state level if
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properly designed and, you know,with proper safeguards.
Anyway, democrats, you canadvocate for a social safety net
at the state level and still beDemocrats, but be bending to
rationality and change the wholeconversation and make a
constructive contribution to thenational debate.
Anyway, that's what I think Now.
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What I really think is that allof this is going to end up
failing, and we're going to.
We are already in the beginningstages of a debt spiral, and
Donald Trump's great failure, inmy opinion, is the one that's
obvious.
That's right in front of us.
He's not doing anything aboutthe national debt.
He's counting on changing thegrowth trajectory, and I hope
he's right.
I hope that our economy startsgrowing faster than the debt,
and he's right.
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Then the debt would be no issueat all.
Economy starts growing fasterthan the debt and he's right
Then the debt would be no issueat all.
Think of the debt as a mortgage.
As long as you can make yourpayments, you're good to go, but
you don't have to pay it alloff in one day.
As long as you're making yourpayments and then slowly
chipping away at it, you're goodto go.
Well, that's not where we areand I don't think that's where
we're headed, and we will see.
Ultimately, I think we're goingto come to what Jamie Dimon
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called about a week, week and ahalf ago.
Jamie Dimon, for those of youwho aren't familiar, is the
chairman of JPMorgan Chase.
He's the most powerful bankerin the United States and the
world and he believes the bondmarket's going to crack, and I
think he's right.
That means that we won't beable to sell our bonds and
that'll be the kickoff of a debtspiral where the Federal
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Reserve has to buy bonds andit's going to be very
inflationary, and yada, yada,yada.
That's another podcast foranother day.
But when that day comes and Ibelieve it's an inevitability
then we're going to need analternative, because tyranny,
democracy we've destroyed ourrepublic and in its place we've
created the democracy, anddemocracy is mob rule.
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To quote, I think it's GKChesterton.
Tell me if I'm wrong about that, guys.
I think it was GK Chesterton,but he said democracy is when
the masses get what they wantgood and hard, I'm paraphrasing
it, but that's what we'regetting.
We're getting democracy goodand hard and we're going to end
up paying the price for it andwe need to return to a republic.
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And the new republic I callantipolitism.
I'm presenting it as analternative to the tyranny that
has historically always beenwhat happens to democracy.
Democracy historically alwaysends in tyranny.
What's the alternative?
Antipolitism?
How do you learn about it?
You pick up a copy of A RadicalReset.
That's the book and manifestoof anti-politism available to
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you on Amazon right at this veryminute.
A Radical Reset by me, herbieKay, the author and your host
here on A Radical Reset podcast.
And that's where I'm going toleave it.
Today, the Democrats need to notbe Democrats.
I think they should callthemselves the New Democratic
Party or the Democratic LibertyParty.
They could come up with anynumber of alternatives, but it's
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time for the Democrats to fadeaway and be replaced by a new,
classically liberal party Iwon't use the word libertarian,
classically liberal, which isthe same thing, liberal, which
is the same thing, and as analternative to the nationalist,
statist, interventionalist,tariff-endorsing Republicans.
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And then you can have a reallygood debate on issues that
people care about, where peoplehave a legitimate choice, and
it's what would happen in ananti-political government that I
advocate, which, again, you canread about in the Radical Reset
.
That's it for now.
Don't forget to tell yourfriends to check out this
podcast, because it's fabulous,if I do say so myself.
Actually, I really don't knowif it's fabulous or not.
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I'm just plugging away, baby,just a working guy plugging away
, and the next time you and Iwill talk to each other is
Wednesday, and until then I sayto you have a beautiful,
beautiful next couple of days.
Until I speak to you next,peace out, god bless you and God
bless America.
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