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Now welcome to this episode of the award winning best of left podcast in which we shall respond

thematically to a couple of comments made recently by our resident Trump supporter Sam

who called in seeking unity.

Now, broadly, he was looking to agree to disagree on some topics while finding common

cause on others.

I'm completely down with that idea and I have since proposed a podcast book club in which

we shall read a Robinator's book Unstoppable, the Emerging Left Right Alliance to dismantle

the corporate state.

While I don't mind agreeing to disagree on some things, I am a real stickler for insisting

that we actually agree on exactly what we're disagreeing about.

So in Sam's call, he said this.

Yes, we're going to disagree on how economy should work.

You may think capitalism is too shades away from slavery.

I think capitalism is the greatest reason.

Object poverty has been in free fall relative to human history.

We may think personal freedom and be dangerous.

I think personal freedom is the essence of social justice because the ultimate minority

is the individual.

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