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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2079 Libertarians and Unpopular Truths

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

If we're going to be faithful to the tradition of thought we have inherited, we must sometimes defend unpopular truths. If instead we'd rather jump on whatever the latest left-wing bandwagon is, then there's no point to our existence.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Tom Wood Show Episode 2079.

0:03.2

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:07.7

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.

0:11.2

The Tom Wood Show.

0:14.2

Hey folks, a lot of your friends believe that deregulation

0:17.2

caused the financial crisis of 2008 just as fervently as they believe that lockdowns

0:22.2

are the solution to COVID-19.

0:24.5

For the sake of our future, both of these ideas need to be smashed,

0:27.7

so check out my free ebook, the deregulation boogieman,

0:31.7

over at regulationmiths.com.

0:35.2

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:36.4

I have just returned from William's Port, Pennsylvania,

0:40.1

where I spoke at the state convention of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania.

0:46.1

And I am happy to report that the results there were very good.

0:50.2

Now, I know that a great many of you may not have any interest whatsoever in the Libertarian

0:55.1

Party. I totally understand that. But even if you don't,

0:58.5

now this got to be at least a little party that feels like the world would be a better place if we

1:02.8

had one more institution that consistently took a sound approach to the COVID hysteria,

1:10.4

which although a great many of the restrictions are falling away is not yet over and could still

1:16.7

return in one form or another. And of course, I think it's very important that we do everything

1:21.9

possible to ensure that this can never happen again. So it remains important to be sound on this

1:28.9

issue. So regardless of whether you're interested in politics or the LP in particular,

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