The push-back against identity politics by disillusioned leftists is welcome, but the striving to replace identity with economic equality as the guiding political principle? Not so much. I won't spend time on the problems with identity politics, a zero-sum game if...
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Free Market Capitalism Works – Real World Examples by Thomas Sowell
by Keith Knight | Jul 11, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/-QKRNuYO8aY Similar comparisons could be made between Burma and Thailand, the former having had the higher standard of living before instituting socialism, and the latter a much higher standard of living afterwards. Other countries—India, Germany,...
Refuting the Progressive Idea of Equality of Opportunity (feat. Danny Duchamp)
by Keith Knight | Jul 9, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/6FYCnlDhefE ... the natural inequality of ability and of interest among men must make elites inevitable, the only sensible course is to abandon the chimera of equality and accept the universal necessity of leaders and followers. Dr. Murray N....
The Antiwar Comic: The United States of Woke
by Tony DiGerolamo | Dec 6, 2021 | Blog
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The Equality Debate: Libertarianism v. Progressivism
by Keith Knight | Aug 7, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/5BJgay3eiQU ... men are not uniform... the species, mankind, is uniquely characterized by a high degree of variety, diversity, differentiation; in short, inequality. An egalitarian society can only hope to achieve its goals by totalitarian methods of...
52 Progressive Myths – Book Summary
by Keith Knight | Jun 26, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/jnqYbimvhLo ... in the free market of voluntary exchanges, the “strong” do no devour or crush the “weak,” contrary to common assumptions about the nature of the free-market economy. On the contrary, it is precisely on the free market where the “weak”...
“Government” is Simply a Theft Funded, Mass Kidnapping, Death Cult. Shane Hazel & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Jun 22, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/IIhvTkddNAc ... the individual has no natural right to any quantum of property; rather, his natural right is the equal liberty to acquire and keep property. Murray N. Rothbard Conceived in Liberty v. 4, p. 179; p. 1293 Find Shane Hazel here:...
Statism, Philosophy, Propaganda, and Bitcoin. Bird Archist & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Jun 20, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/sdspomCV-xw ... the importance of the Hayek theory of the business cycle is that it puts the blame for the boom-bust cycle squarely on the shoulders of the government and its controlled banking system, and, for the first time since the classical...
Without Government, Who Will Build the Roads? Walter Block & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Jun 18, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/NpeBs1qJ7eo ... the State is careful to monopolize police and judicial service, the ownership of roads and streets, the supply of money, and the postal service, and effectively to monopolize or control education, public utilities, transportation, and...
Is ‘Equality’ A Worthy Goal?
by Keith Knight | Jan 29, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/SzW2bGcIe2Q It is an absurd and pernicious doctrine of “justice” that each child should “start” absolutely equally. It is an anti-human position, since each child manifestly begins completely unequally — with unequal abilities and parents. If parents...
The Libertarian Case for Equality
by Keith Knight | Feb 9, 2020 | Blog, Don't Tread on Anyone
Can one consistently believe a majority of 535 congressmen have the right to coercively rule 330 million Americans, and believe in equality? If you believe one group should monopolize AR-15s and taxation, do you believe in equality? In this video, I attempt to refute...
Israeli Bizarro World
by Scott Horton | Jul 2, 2019 | Blog
This is all perfectly normal and fine, you see: The Israeli Blue-White opposition co-chair Yair Lapid ventured into dangerous territory on Twitter last week, where he argued for “equality” and a “state of all its citizens”. This brought backlash not least from the...
1/16/17 Ramzy Baroud on the death of an Israel-Palestine two-state solution
by Scott Horton | Jan 16, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Ramzy Baroud, the editor of PalestineChronicle.com and author of My Father was A Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story, discusses why a two-state solution is not - and has never been - a viable solution to the Israel-Palestine problem; and why it's imperative to focus...
Occupational Licensing and Inequality
by David D'Amato | Oct 26, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles
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My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
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