Ep. 596 Libertarian Strategy: What Should We Do?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A lot of people say: I've got a good grasp of the ideas, so what are our next steps? Jeff Deist joins me to discuss various libertarian strategies, and which are the most promising.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 596. |
| 0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.3 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.3 | Hey, everybody, if you're interested in more libertarian podcasts, then check out the Jason |
| 0:18.6 | Stapleton program hosted by my friend Jason Stapleton. |
| 0:22.1 | He gives you a libertarian take on the news Monday through Friday. Check it out at jasonstapleton.com. |
| 0:28.9 | Hi everybody. Tom Woods here. Talking strategy today, what after all should we do? What are the options? |
| 0:36.7 | I'm going to discuss this with Jeff Dice, |
| 0:39.3 | who is president of the Meese Institute. He is formerly chief of staff to Ron Paul. |
| 0:46.5 | And not long ago, he gave a talk on this very subject, and that made me think we should discuss it. |
| 0:51.7 | So, Jeff, welcome back to the show. Thank you so much, Tom. |
| 0:56.1 | I watch your talks when they're at Mises events that I'm not, where I'm not in attendance. |
| 1:02.9 | I always make sure I want to know what was Dice talking about at the event. And I always, I always love what I hear because you're, you take a lot of thoughts and you put them out and you I mean it's not like it's not like the way I do a talk. |
| 1:19.5 | Your approach is different from my. |
| 1:21.2 | I don't want to go into differences in style, but I like that. |
| 1:24.1 | I don't like just listening to somebody who's exactly like me. |
| 1:26.6 | You have thoughts that I've never articulated, but that I have in my head and I just that. I don't like just listening to somebody who's exactly like me. You have thoughts that I've never articulated, but that I have in my head, and I just nod my head through your whole talk. |
| 1:33.0 | What I like to, you have, you did a fantastic, interesting talk on the socialist left and the alt-right that I loved. |
| 1:41.9 | I want to talk today about a theme you raised in an earlier talk |
| 1:45.9 | on what should we do? Because we get hit hard a lot by people who say, okay, you wise guys, |
| 1:52.8 | you've diagnosed the problem perfectly well, but you haven't told us what to do. And I get that. |
| 1:58.0 | I understand that frustration. On the other hand, you know, people have specializations, and mine is I do, I am able to explain problems to people. And that is important because only if people see there's a problem, will they even bother looking for a solution? But I get people's frustration. We've pinpointed a number of possible approaches before we started talking here, |
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