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Episode 95: Koch'd Up (Part II teaser)

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod We continue with part two of our episode on the Koch Empire, dive into the legacy of the Cato institute, Murray Rothbard's self proclaimed Leninism and The Belden Plan. links: thenation.com/article/archive/independent-and-principled-behind-cato-myth/ thebaffler.com/latest/the-forgotten-man-ganz https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/08/journey-into-a-libertarian-future-part-ii-the-strategy.html davidmhart.com/liberty/AmericanLibertarians/Rothbard/Rothbard_1977TowardStrategy.pdf libertarianpapers.org/articles/2009/lp-1-3.pdf

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0:00.0

Well, people on the left like to point to the fact that like, uh, the post office is popular.

0:06.1

Or like that Medicare for all is like a popular idea among some Democrats or whatever.

0:11.2

But it's like, okay, fine. Like maybe these specific issues like some people who respond to opinion polls

0:18.4

like them. But like really the whole like you're missing the whole landscape, which like the

0:22.9

coax and people like them, not just them, but people like them have totally remade. And like by

0:28.1

focusing on these like hyper specific things, well, look, like I really hate it when like Bernie

0:33.1

Sanders says like, oh, we're winning the ideological war or winning the war of ideas. Well, fuck,

0:39.6

that's wonderful. That's that's that's that's the best way to win a war is by ideas. In fact,

0:45.6

traditionally, that's how all wars have been won by just having the best ideas. It's like, no,

0:50.8

wrong motherfucker. Like you are first of all, you're not even winning the war of ideas. You're losing

0:56.0

them. If you're winning the war of ideas, you'd be winning the regular war. Or at least we do it

1:00.9

a lot better than you are. And like that's what's so crazy me is like, no, do they're winning the war

1:06.0

of ideas and the regular war. Like this is even many people on the left have like I've, I've,

1:14.2

I've, I mean, I'm not saying that people on the left like Coke people or whatever, but have taken

1:18.0

up this like, I mean, think about this. This you try to get like think of the rigid ideological

1:26.6

discipline displayed by a lot of the people in the Coke universe, right? Could you imagine,

1:35.1

could you imagine any like given like little socialist groups of colon America, adhering to the

1:41.6

same kind of discipline and the same kind of seriousness and the same kind of devotion? No.

1:50.1

Right? Of course not. And like, and that's the thing is, is there's this like, there's this

1:57.6

wrong headed idea, right? That like, well, well, because our cause is just that that affords us all

2:04.8

of these spiritual back you, the angels are at our backs or whatever, wrong motherfucker, they aren't.

2:13.8

Like, I'm not saying this to be a downer to nobody, but this is plainly obvious what is happening.

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