595 - How Less Government Leads to More Freedom with Vice President Elect Spike Cohen

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🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Spike Cohen is the first anarchist AND the first millennial on the ticket for the upcoming 2020 election. He’s the Vice President Elect for the libertarian party (the third largest political party in the U.S.). He has a lot of compelling arguments about the federal reserve, inflation, freedom, centralized government versus decentralized government, etc. And you might be wondering, ‘Why does anyone run as a third party? What’s the point?’ I asked him this, too. But here’s the real reason to listen to this episode: you get to challenge the conventional ideas of politics. I’d like to hear what you think. Tweet me@jaltucher. And tweet Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.6	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.6	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.5	In terms of US elections, everybody always thinks obviously of the two main parties, Democrats
0:20.0	and Republicans.
0:21.0	Right.
0:22.0	Because they get all the votes and being electors mostly, but it's a legit third party.
0:26.8	Oh yeah, it's definitely legit.
0:28.6	We have 50 state ballot access.
0:30.7	We are the third largest political party.
0:33.0	And we actually consider ourselves the second largest political party because at this point
0:36.6	we believe that the Republicans are basically one giant super party that pretends to have
0:41.2	different factions, but really there's so little daylight in terms of policy.
0:45.4	You know, whether you vote Republican or Democrat, you're getting endless war.
0:48.8	You're getting endless caging of people for victimless crimes.
0:51.7	You're getting endless increased taxation.
0:53.7	You're getting endless increased debt spending.
0:56.1	You're getting this endless parade of core central planning disguised as protection
1:01.0	and help.
1:02.0	And the only real viable alternative to that is the libertarian message that you own yourself,
1:06.6	you own your life, you own your body, you own your labor, you own your property, and
1:10.6	that we will stand alongside you and fight against anyone who would try to take those from
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