Hey, welcome to the podcast. Today I want to explore something that we live in a society so far from what our founders envisioned that you, the individual American, have the freedom to make choices about the way you want to live your life every single day. We're not that country.

We spend our time out trudging through red tape rules and regulations so much so that it is suffocating the God given individual constitutional freedoms.

Our parties in Washington can't and won't fix the problem. Neither side, they're part of the DC bureaucracy that has become nothing more than a giant rule book where all of us in some way or another are living in infraction.

So where do we begin? How do we even begin to fix this? Well, I know I can sit down with people who even disagree with me and it feels like after a while we could fix it in two days.

Well, that's called common sense and we don't have an awful lot of that anymore. Today I sit down with the author of a book called Try Common Sense.

He is not only the one who is really frustrated with today's political system just like you, but he is frustrated with both the left and the right and he has decided to do something about it.

He is trying to develop a clear plan for how we can return to the kind of democratic responsibility and efficiency that our founders intended.

Today's podcast, Radical Thinking about Radical Change with Philip Howard.

I have to tell you, I feel like the audience is going to say, I want that so much, but they will be they will feel like they're on the other side of the glass with absolutely no way to get it.

Because common sense is not a part of our life anymore.

That's right. It's been banned by Washington. And Washington is this isolated foreign entities. If some force from outer space came and started dictating how to behave and how to do this with that.

And people have kind of lost any sense of how they can use their hands again, how they can grab hold of a problem and solve it.

Let me tell you the story. My son in my house, in my house raised by me. We were watching the original producers, the Mel Brooks film, you know, Springtime for Hitler.

And he was probably 13 at the time and he said, Dad, how did the government ever allow this to be made? I stopped the movie. I said, say that to me again. We have gone from a country where, yeah, where the fence was to keep the bad guys out.

And you could do whatever you wanted inside here. Just don't break these rules. You know what I mean? Now you're in here. Everything has a rule.

Everything has a rule. And it's all basically telling you you can't do that without permission.

That's right. And so the fundamental difference between the Soviet culture and the American culture that's described by the great people who wrote about this.

That's Hayek Havill and others is that in America, you had a system of law that and government that prescribed bad things, but left you free to leave you otherwise lead your life.

In the Soviet Union, you weren't allowed to do anything unless it was permitted.

What's happened almost without our noticing when it happened, it's like a pot slowly getting hot or something. In the last 50 years, we went from a system in which government got involved to protect bad things.

To a system where now you can't do anything unless the government says you can do it. It's really just the damnedest.

I have an extensive collection of American history and after the podcast, maybe I'll take you up to one of our vaults. I have an old, it's made out of cloth, but it's a target of a bear, a teddy bear done by Teddy Roosevelt.

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