Hello everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.

With us today's Daniel McAdams, our co-host, Daniel.

I understand we have a special type of program today.

That's right. You get put in the hot seat.

This is a very popular thing that we've done here,

and it's where we let our viewers ask some questions,

and get you take on some things. Ask Ron Paul, we call it,

as our viewers know. So let's go right to the questions.

Let's hit it hard. The first one comes in from Jay.

His handle is Jay's tweets on Twitter, and he asked this question,

which historical event do you think was most significant

in our drift from more freedom to more fascism?

From our COVID response, all the way back to the forming of the union

and everything in between. It's a big question because there've been so many

advances. There's been a lot of gradualism and founders,

you know, expected that to happen and warn us against it,

because the document of the Constitution was there to prevent this from

happening, but they also knew about the imperfection of man,

where people, you know, bend the rules, and soon after they get their liberties,

they undermine them. But I would say the first

century or so, things did pretty well, but a lot of people now think about the very

current events going on, and that would be, you know, the

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