Ep. 459 My Speech to the YAL Convention: What We Say, and What Progressives Pretend We Say
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We seem to understand progressives far better than they understand us. In these remarks, the keynote address at the 2015 Young Americans for Liberty national convention, I review example after sorry example of this phenomenon, while incidentally making the case for libertarianism.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 459. |
| 0:03.6 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.2 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.5 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:16.1 | Just back from Washington, D.C., where I spent the weekend. |
| 0:20.2 | I was the keynote speaker Saturday night, August 1st, 2015, at the Young Americans for Liberty National Convention. |
| 0:29.4 | August 1st is my birthday, so you will note when I play for you the remarks I delivered at that event |
| 0:35.6 | that the people in the audience sang happy birthday |
| 0:39.0 | to me, so now you understand what is going on. It was a great time. I talked to them about |
| 0:44.2 | progressives. You can see in the episode title here, and what they seem to be hearing when we talk. |
| 0:50.8 | So I think it's a nice little presentation. I am leaving in the part about how I left my books back in the hotel, because I think there is a remark or two later in the talk that doesn't make sense unless you know that. |
| 1:04.2 | So I'm going to play that for you now because I like it and because I just spent the weekend doing this and I'm tired and this is an easy |
| 1:12.3 | episode. But it's also an episode that people I think would like to hear and I always get asked, |
| 1:16.5 | did they record it? And this time they actually did record it. YAL doesn't always do so. So |
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