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get your podcasts. Now welcome to the award winning Best of Left's podcast with clips today

from the majority report, the Tom Hartman program, The Young Turks, and the David Pakman show. But

first, I want to set the scene for this first clip, which actually then sets the scene for the whole

show because we're talking about libertarianism today and libertarianism needs him explaining.

Now the reason, as best as I can figure, that there is a fundamental breakdown when libertarians

try to debate basically anyone else is that most libertarians tend to place a higher value on

adherence to their philosophy than to the real world results of implementing that philosophy.

All of their arguments flow from the fact that they have already decided what the answer is

because they have to adhere to their philosophy and so then they just have to contort themselves

into knots to try to make reality fit into their philosophy rather than going the other way around

like most normal people. It's actually very much like someone who legislates by their religion.

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