Ep. 520 The Heresies of Liberty: Why the Conservative Movement Shuns Us
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Whether it's nonintervention abroad, or Social Security, or WikiLeaks, or Iran, or the Department of Homeland Security, or the drug war, libertarians don't quite fit in to the official "conservative movement." Jim Babka, who emphasizes these very issues, joins me to talk it all through. Plus, we discuss the great Harry Browne, an important and skilled communicator for our cause.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 520. |
| 0:03.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:27.2 | tomwoods.com slash moon. Welcome to another episode of the show. I'm very glad to be joined |
| 0:32.9 | by Jim Babka today. I can't believe it took me until episode 520 to talk to Jim. |
| 0:39.4 | Jim is the president of the Downsized DC Foundation and downsizeDC.org, which I hope you will |
| 0:47.5 | check out. Pretty much anything I might want to talk to Jim about is going to be interesting |
| 0:51.9 | because I'm talking about it with Jim Babka, |
| 0:54.9 | who was also, by the way, a close associate of Harry Brown. And for those of you who don't know |
| 1:00.4 | who Harry Brown was, we will no doubt talk about him as we go along. Before we do that, I just |
| 1:06.6 | want to, I'm afraid if I do this afterward, I'm going to forget, or if I try to push it off |
| 1:11.6 | till later, I'll forget. I do have still a lot of people who are interested in starting |
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| 1:37.4 | kind of like a podcast, really, but check it out through tomwoods.com slash podcast course. All right, let's turn now to Jim Babka. Jim, |
| 1:47.1 | welcome to the show. Well, thanks, Tom. I am thrilled to be here. You've got this downsized DC |
| 1:52.8 | that I think will resonate with a lot of my listeners. A lot of them would say downsizing it isn't |
| 1:58.8 | enough. Yeah, we'll downsize it all the way down to zero. |
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