76 - Market As Deity: Reflections On The Right-Wing's Golden Calf

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Jack Clark

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🗓️ 12 January 2007

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today we're going to have a wide-ranging discussion of that totally misleading economic term so beloved by the right, the "free market." By the time we're finished, you'll never hear the phrase "free market" the same way again.One of the more exasperating things when speaking to a right-winger, is that virtually no matter what subject you're talking about, if you're making good points and the

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 76 of Blast the Right.
0:24.0	I'm Jack Clark from therationalradical.com.
0:27.6	Today we're going to have a wide-ranging discussion of that totally misleading economic
0:37.7	term so beloved by the right, the free market.
0:42.6	By the time we're finished, you'll never hear the phrase free market the same way again.
0:47.8	Let's get right into it.
0:50.2	One of the more exasperating things when speaking to a right-winger is that virtually no matter
0:54.8	what subject you're talking about, if you're making good points in the right-winger has
0:58.7	nothing to say, they'll resort to their old stand-by, all purpose answered anything.
1:04.1	The free market, they'll accuse you of subverting the free market.
1:08.1	Oh, I'm sick of it, aren't you?
1:11.1	The free market this and the free market that, the free market will solve this problem,
1:15.0	the free market will solve that problem.
1:17.4	What brilliant marketing, who could be against a free market?
1:22.1	That, do you want an unfree market, an enslaved market?
1:26.6	How could you not be in favor of a free market?
1:29.7	We're going to look at this rebranding of right-wing economics from a variety of different
1:34.0	angles.
1:35.2	Some are high-faluten theory, others down and dirty in the trenches experiential.
1:41.1	I hope everyone will hear something in this podcast to grab onto and use it to speak
1:46.3	truth to power, the next time a right-winger is standing in front of you, pulling their
1:51.6	free market stick.
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