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Welcome to Keith and I don't 
tread on anyone in the 

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Libertarian Institute. 
This is a section from my book 

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Domestic Imperialism 9 Reasons I
Left Progressivism. 

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I always admired progressives 
unapologetic opposition to 

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unjust ideas. 
Progressives could correctly 

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identify unjust ways of 
operating society. 

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But today, whether it's 
colonialism, racism, sexism, 

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classism, xenophobia, or the 
military industrial complex, 

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progressives have embraced all 
of those vicious ideas and have 

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made them the center of their 
campaigns. 

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They explicitly embrace 
colonialism by supporting the 

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federal government 
centralization of control. 

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They judge people by race, 
gender, and class. 

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They negatively generalize 
stupid Americans and evil 

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Russian interferers at every 
opportunity and wish for the 

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state to have more money and 
power, knowing that a large 

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portion of that money and power 
will be directed to military 

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industrial interests, leading to
the mass murder of innocent 

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human beings. 
Progressivism survives by only 

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looking at one side of the 
equation when it comes to social

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and economic issues. 
They see the large amounts of 

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revenue that organizations like 
Amazon have and conclude that 

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Amazon must be vilified. 
They seldom, if ever, asked, why

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do so many people voluntarily 
choose to spend their scarce 

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money in exchange for so many 
Amazon products? 

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How many people with lower 
incomes have had greater access 

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to products as a result of 
Amazon services thanks to 

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Amazon? 
How many more options does the 

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average person have to choose 
from just by scrolling on his 

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phone or computer? 
How many authors and small 

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businesses are empowered by 
Amazon Marketplace instead of 

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having to go through a major 
publishing house or having to 

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open up their own warehouse? 
It's common to see progressives 

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who offer me no job, no 
products, and no services claim 

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that my real enemies are people 
who voluntarily offer me those 

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things, like a jealous spouse. 
They become abusive when they 

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feel insecure rather than do the
work that it takes to improve 

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themselves. 
It's noteworthy that Amazon has 

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voluntarily chosen to enact a 
$15.00 an hour minimum wage, the

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very thing progressive say can 
only be achieved by a state 

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coercion 0. 
Sum thinking is defined as 

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situations in which one person's
gain would be another's loss. 

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If progressives could clearly 
differentiate between mutually 

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beneficial exchanges and 
coercive parasitic transactions,

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they would cease to be 
progressives. 

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Unable to move beyond zero sum 
thinking, progressives will 

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abandoned any sense of gratitude
for the society around them, 

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making it highly improbable that
they will be able to test 

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theories empirically about what 
makes societies thrive and which

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policies or institutions lead to
the impoverishment of society. 

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Progressives should appreciate 
that genius comes in many 

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different forms. 
Socrates, Leonardo DiCaprio, 

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Dave Chappelle, Michelangelo, 
and Nikola Tesla were all 

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geniuses. 
Genius also comes in the form of

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ideas regarding how to innovate 
and produce things which people 

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want, and to do so in an 
affordable way so that the 

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products can be accessible to 
the masses. 

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Progressives making enemies of 
the great voluntary innovators 

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in society is not just 
unnecessarily divisive, it 

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stopped the rest of us from 
having access to the fruits of 

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those innovators talents. 
Looking at the monarchical 

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systems of the past, many 
intellectuals incorrectly blame 

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the shortcomings of said 
monarchies on the elitist, 

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arbitrary characteristics of the
kings and Queens who flaunted 

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their royalty while others lived
in poverty. 

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The problem with monarchy is not
elitism or some people having a 

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huge sway in society. 
As the Iron Law of oligarchy 

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teaches us. 
Anytime people organize, a very 

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small portion of them will have 
most of the power and influence.

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The problem with monarchy lies 
in the fact that one 

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organization, the state, has an 
exemption from morality by 

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having a monopoly on violence 
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The government has a recognized 
right to perform actions, impose

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taxes, regulations, and declare 
wars that would clearly be seen 

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as criminal if any other 
organization engaged in them. 

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Imagine the Catholic Church, or 
any person or group of people 

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doing what the state does every 
day. 

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Everyone who doesn't give the 
Catholic Church 25% of his 

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annual income every year will be
put in jail. 

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If he resists the Jesuit 
officer, the officer has a right

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to shoot him. 
Everyone by law must contribute 

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to the Catholic Church school 
fund, and if parents don't send 

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their kids there, they will be 
jailed for truancy law 

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violation. 
Most people need a license by 

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force of law from the Catholic 
Church in order to work. 

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This way the church can keep you
and other customers safe. 

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All humans have a nine digit 
Catholic security number, so the

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Church knows who's who. 
If the Catholic Church decides 

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to wage war on the Church of 
Scientology, everyone must be 

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forced to fund the war and men 
ages 18 to 45 will be 

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conscripted to perform forced 
labor against their will. 

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The problem with this situation 
is not that we don't get to vote

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on who the Pope is once every 
four years, or that the votes 

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need accurate counting. 
It's that some people claim an 

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exemption from common sense 
morality by engaging in non 

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consensual activity. 
The solution is to decriminalize

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all capitalist acts between 
consenting adults and cease to 

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have moral double standards for 
elites and laymen. 

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True empowerment of the 
economically vulnerable comes 

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from economic freedom, not from 
getting to choose which 

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politician gets your one vote 
every few years. 

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In short, privatize everything. 
Incentives of profit and loss 

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allow you to harmonize 
individual self-interest with 

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collective well-being. 
The free market approach is the 

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only morally justified system 
since it relies on volunteerism 

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while recognizing the right of 
self-defense. 

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Thank you for watching Keith and
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