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Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. I want to spend a little time today digging a little bit deeper into something I asked about and question I raised back on episode 1399 with Dan Mahler.

I was asking, why aren't we more popular, given that our

ideas seem to be in line with the basic moral ideas that are taught to everybody? Why aren't we

the great heroes of America and the world? And instead, despised. How can that be? What is happening here? What's the disconnect that's going on?

So to follow up on that, I wanted to deal with one of the objections that is somewhat related to that that we actually get from the other side.

They'll say to us, well, if you guys are indeed as good as you say and your ideas are as good as you say

they are, why aren't they implemented on a large scale? I mean, obviously, some things that we

teach and believe in are indeed implemented around the world. I mean, there are stock markets,

so there is private property in the means of production. There isn't surveillance of

every aspect of your life in every single country. I mean, in other words, we have some victories

somewhere, but their point is, why is there no purely libertarian country? So I don't know if

you've heard that objection, but I sure get it. I've seen it a number of times. It was in Salon a number of years ago. Michael Lind had a piece. It might have been Slate, actually. I don't remember. Who even cares, right? But they were asking that sort of question. If libertarianism is so great, why can't you point to any actual countries? That's such an odd way to ask it. I mean, the communists

thought communism was great. And does the fact that they could actually point to communist

countries mean communism is better than libertarianism? I think the world would be a lot happier

if those people couldn't point to any countries, you know, implementing their ideas.

So the fact that they could point to some countries, how does that make it better?

How does that?

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