Libertarians Are Exhausting: Inside the 50-year American coup d'état. [Part 2]
Unf*cking The Republic
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🗓️ 22 January 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In part two of “Libertarians are Exhausting” we’re still talking about freedom and liberty. Economic freedom, personal liberty and the next important concept we need to unpack: The Rule of Law. Plus we'll take a look at the masters of the libertarian universe (aka the brains, money, economists and lawyers) behind the nouveau American style fiscal-anarcho-capitalist-minarchist-neoliberal-objectivist cauldron of bullshit we know as modern day libertarianism.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:07
Prologue: 00:03:02
Part One Recap: 00:04:44
Segment 1: 00:05:58
Segment 2: 00:12:05
Segment 3: 00:15:43
Segment 4: 00:22:01
Segment 5: 00:25:47
Segment 6: 00:29:40
Segment 7: 00:36:20
Show Notes: 00:45:45
Book Love: 00:47:04
Pod Love: 00:47:20
Emails + Shout Outs: 00:48:24
Outro: 01:06:57
Resources
The New Republic: How David Koch’s 1980 Fantasy Became America’s Current Reality
Forbes: This Secretive Billionaire Is One Of America’s Biggest Conservative Donors
SourceWatch: American Legislative Exchange Council
Brookings: ALEC’s Influence over Lawmaking in State Legislatures
Libertarian Party: Platform
Book Love
David Boaz: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom
Nancy MacLean: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Jane Mayer: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
H. L. Mencken: Notes on Democracy
Thomas Paine: Rights of Man
Bernard E. Harcourt: The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order
Kurt Andersen: Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
Pod Love
News Beat: MLK's Last Month: Memphis
Economic Update with Rick Wolff
UNFTR Episode Resources
The American Propaganda Machine.
Libertarians are Exhausting (Part One).
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| 0:00.0 | Unfucking the Republic is brought to you by Sam C. Cringy, Cindy S, and Corius, unfucking insane level |
| 0:06.4 | members of the show. I'm the show's producer, 99, and I'd like to welcome you back to part two of |
| 0:11.7 | libertarians are exhausting. We'll give a quick recap of part one, then dive right into it to see if we |
| 0:17.0 | can understand in practical terms what it means to be a libertarian and look for common ground |
| 0:21.4 | with the progressive movement in the United States. Some quick housekeeping as reminders before we |
| 0:26.1 | start. For listeners with auditory processing issues or ones who just prefer no background music, |
| 0:31.1 | you'll find a link in show notes to a music list feed. And to read the essays from our episodes |
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| 0:44.3 | transparency and free access to the source material for the show. And with that, I'll hand it over to |
| 0:49.4 | our host, Max. Thanks, 99. Ooh yeah yeah. Welcome back on fuckers. |
| 0:55.6 | It's good to cozy up with you on this chilly day here in New York. |
| 0:59.7 | What the fuck are you doing? |
| 1:01.1 | What is he doing? |
| 1:02.1 | A listener wrote in that he had the sexiest voice in podcasting. |
| 1:05.7 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:07.3 | Hey now. |
| 1:07.9 | I don't know what you're talking about. |
| 1:09.4 | This is just my normal voice. |
| 1:11.3 | I can't help it if it comes across in a sexy way. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah, well, it doesn't. |
| 1:15.7 | So let's just go. |
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