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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 968 Why Liberty Is So Hard to Sell -- And Can We Do Anything About It?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

You'd think "I want to free you" would be an easy message to sell -- and yet it isn't. Why is that?
 
This episode is the talk I gave at LibertyFest 2014 in Brooklyn, New York.
 

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 968.

0:03.4

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

0:08.0

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.2

Folks, we are inching toward the 1,000th episode of the Tom Woods Show,

0:19.0

and I'd like you to join me for it at a special event in Orlando,

0:23.9

September 9th, featuring Michael Malice and Tom DeLorenzo as special guests and the great

0:30.4

Eric July as MC. It's absolutely free, but you got to register. Check it out at tom woods.com slash Orlando.

0:40.3

Hello everybody. Tom Woods here. Today I have dug up for you something I did not know existed.

0:45.3

There is, in fact, a recording of a talk I gave at Liberty Fest 2014, which was held in Brooklyn.

0:53.4

And I talk about a bunch of things.

0:55.7

And maybe some of these themes will be familiar to you if you've listened to, you know, all 967 previous episodes.

1:02.9

But not everyone has.

1:04.5

And there's some fresh stuff in here that you might like.

1:07.5

And it really is dealing with this question at first.

1:10.1

Why would this be so difficult?

1:12.0

Why is it so hard to persuade people, look, I just want you to be free. You know, can you go

1:18.1

along with me on this? What's the problem here? What is the block? What's the blockage here?

1:23.0

So I talk about that in a very, very friendly setting. Liberty Fest is filled with wonderful people,

1:29.1

great libertarians. I attended it a number of years and always had a wonderful time. So anyway,

1:35.0

that's what follows today as soon as I stop talking. So why don't I stop talking right now? Now,

1:40.6

it's a little echoy. The room was not really optimized for audio, but it's understandable.

1:46.2

It's not really a problem. So off we go. I hope you enjoy it. This is from, this would have been,

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