This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, November 8, 2012.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Subjecting more and more decisions to the political process either directly or through

representatives doesn't improve outcomes. In fact says Aaron Powell

editor of Libertarianism.org it makes our relationships worse by turning partners into adversaries.

People get really irritated by politics.

On Facebook, for example, behind complaints about candidates, behind complaints about

specific policies or dumb things candidates have said, either years in the past or recently, there are also the

complaints about the arguments about politics. That seems to be number two

behind the actual arguments themselves and those complaints.

And you're sort of making an argument on behalf of Liberty that is different from other strains

of Libertarianism but addresses this issue very directly.

The complaint about politics.

I think that one of the things that we object to about politics, even if we aren't necessarily

aware of it and we see it in these Facebook arguments

and the heatedness of it, is that politics ends up causing us to behave in ways that we seem both unable to avoid but also

recognize as really distasteful. We're not we're not happy with the fact that

we behave in these ways. We don't like to see other people acting this way.

We get mad about the ranchersness of politics about the divisiveness of politics, but we seem incapable of escaping this.

And I think that the reason for that is not because we're doing politics wrong, or because we

have the wrong kind of people running for office, or we're talking about the wrong kind of people running for office or we're

talking about the wrong issues but it's it's inherent in simply political decision

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