Ep. 2023 Should We Just Grab Power and Shape Society How We Want?

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Tom Woods

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🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Frustrated conservatives and libertarians have begun wondering if, since our enemies have no reservations about the use of power, we are in a lopsided battle: our opponents don't hesitate to use power to oppress their enemies, but we on principal refuse to do likewise. John Grove joins me to talk this through.

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show, episode 2023, prepared a set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.6	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here. The Tom Wood Show.
0:14.2	Hey folks, chances are if you're listening to this podcast, you are surrounded by irrational
0:18.5	panicked people who think you're a terrible person because you don't want to lock everybody in
0:22.4	their houses. No amount of reasoning appears to accomplish anything, and not to mention the media
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0:51.0	Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Join today by John Grove, who is associate editor of Law and
0:56.5	Liberty, which is a great blog. By the way, I highly recommend to you. We've talked at least one
1:01.5	other author over there, but it's always interesting and thought-provoking, and there's a piece I
1:07.2	want to call to your attention. I'll link to it on the show notes page, which of course is Tom
1:11.4	Woods.com slash 2023, and it's called a Maxim for Power Skeptical Conservatism. There's a lot of
1:18.1	important food for thought here for both conservatives and libertarians, particularly in light of some of
1:23.7	the conversations we're hearing among frustrated conservatives and frustrated libertarians these days.
1:29.9	So I want to talk to the author, John Grove about it. So John, welcome to the show.
1:33.5	Thanks for having me. What I have been coming across lately, and it's not like I can't understand
1:40.4	why people feel frustrated, but the thinking is something like this, that unless you're going to put
1:45.1	forth what they would consider to be a robust conservatism that does not shrink from the use of power,
1:53.5	what's happening is you have a left wing that knows very much what it wants and is very much prepared
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