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Should we start with the essay, 
And I hope I'm saying this 

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correctly, coercivist and 
voluntarist. 

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Can you tell us for I guess 
first of all, who wrote that? 

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And then what is this particular
essay about? 

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This is an essay by Don 
Boudreaux, APHD economist from 

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George Mason University, and 
what he says is that so many of 

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the divides that we see are 
completely fake and arbitrary. 

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The corporate press is 
constantly pushing black verse 

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white rich verse poor man verse 
woman, American verse Muslim 

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which now has completely 
switched and Muslims are totally

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off. 
The chopping block. 

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And now it's America versus 
Russia and soon to be America 

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versus China, unfortunately. 
So he says these are so 

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obviously fake, they put a 
divide in front of you. 

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You can see even organizations 
like Democracy Now will say it 

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turns out studies show that 
whites get loans at a higher 

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rate than blacks. 
And then they just end the 

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segment there and they 
completely leave out that Asians

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actually get approved more than 
whites. 

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So why leave them out? 
Because it's a constant fake 

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divide. 
So Don Boudreau says well. 

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The reality is, when people are 
looking at the political 

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situation, logic kind of is is 
set aside and what people look 

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for are villains to hate and 
heroes to cheer. 

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So what are what is rather a 
true divide that we could base 

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society on if we are to say what
is just and what is unjust 

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behavior. 
So he says a true divide would 

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be people who achieve their ends
in life coercively. 

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Or by initiating violence or 
threats thereof versus 

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volunteers, People who achieve 
any of their ends in life, 

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whether it's where you want to 
have dinner tonight or whether 

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it's what do you want in the 
future, career wise, he says. 

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This is a true divide where we 
can see who is right, who is 

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wrong, just behavior that is 
civilized and barbaric behavior 

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that should be dismissed. 
This gets to the root of the 

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most evil things in the world 
that differentiates slavery from

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voluntary work. 
Kidnapping from spending time at

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someone's house, Rape from 
lovemaking, theft from trade. 

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This really gets to the root of 
morality. 

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So he says this is a true 
divide. 

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Democrat and Republican is 
another fake divide. 

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I remember watching John Kerry 
and George Bush have a debate. 

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This had to have been like 2003,
2004 and Kerry's big objection 

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to. 
Invading Iraq. 

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Murdering civilians, Initiating 
a war based on lies. 

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George Bush explicitly said it's
been confirmed that Saddam 

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Hussein has bought a yellow cake
uranium from Niger. 

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Turns out that was a fake story.
Dick Cheney said it's been 

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pretty well confirmed. 
Mohammed Adam met with Iraqi 

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intelligence in Czechoslovakia. 
That was fake. 

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So Kerry's objection to all this
evil was. 

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I think we should have sent 
40,000 more troops at one point 

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and and really you know, gotten 
serious about the war, not just 

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dilly dally looking back. 
And then of course the the the 

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tax rate discussion, they're 
like should it be 38 or 36 or 36

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verse 39 when talking about the 
corporate high income tax rates.

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All of those divides are fake. 
Don Boudreau says a true divide 

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in society is coercivist first. 
Volunteerist. 

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That centrally really is what 
the book is about. 

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No, that's interesting. 
So it seems like there's kind of

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this sowing of a false false 
dichotomy or false dichotomy is 

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actually this us versus them 
dynamic that that status largely

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attempt to create. 
Is the purpose of that to create

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more demand for regulation and 
statism? 

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Like you just get people 
divided, Classic divide and 

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conquer strategy. 
You get people divided across 

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different ideological lines and 
then from that you create some 

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some internal conflict from 
which more statism is demanded. 

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Is that kind of the general 
point? 

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It certainly seems that way, 
just because the follow up to 

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every evil is and that's why the
state needs more power to tax 

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and regulate. 
You know, racism is a terrible 

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thing. 
Vladimir Putin is a terrible guy

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and there is a dangerous virus 
that exists. 

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Therefore, my group and 
organization should be able to 

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take more income by force and 
regulate voluntary exchanges 

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between consenting adults. 
Now, even if you buy into so 

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many of their fake narratives, 
it doesn't necessarily follow 

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that you should therefore give 
them more money and power. 

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There could be a numerous 
alternative methods to what to 

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achieving such a thing. 
For example, both Donald Trump 

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and Barack Obama got together 
and lot. 

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Ideologically got together and 
lied about the Pulse nightclub 

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murder of June 12th, 2016. 
They both came out and said this

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was a horrible crime against gay
and lesbian Americans and this 

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was a hate crime. 
He was targeting them because 

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they were gay and we cannot 
allow such a thing to exist. 

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It turns out that his 911 call 
after murdering 49 people 

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enduring 53, he held the 
remaining people hostage. 

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He called 911. 
And actually explained his 

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motive. 
The reason we can actually take 

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his word for it is because the 
goal of terrorism is to amplify 

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a message as opposed to conceal 
your motives. 

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And he explicitly says again and
again, you have to tell America 

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to stop bombing Iraq and Syria. 
They're killing too many women 

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and children there. 
What am I to do here when my 

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people are getting killed over 
there? 

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Tell the US to stop the drone 
strikes, Stop collaborating with

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Russia. 
They're killing too many women 

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and children now. 
You see how it is. 

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Now you feel how it is. 
He said that repeatedly 

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throughout this, you know, 20 
minute discussion. 

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I think he was on with, they 
transferred him to an FBI 

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negotiator. 
You can actually find this 

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transcript. 
So even when they say there is a

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real problem, someone used 
massive violence against 

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innocent people and homophobia 
exists, it doesn't mean that the

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state should get more power. 
And in this instance, just as so

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many others, it was actually a 
result. 

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Of state power. 
This was blowback as a result of

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government intervention in the 
1st place. 

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Same with the financial crisis. 
As I'm sure your audience 

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understands, they say well, 
there's a terrible financial 

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crisis. 
Also, it has nothing to do with 

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the Federal Reserve. 
Monopolizing the currency as 

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well as interest rates has 
nothing to do with Fannie and 

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Freddie guaranteeing terrible 
loans or Sallie Mae guaranteeing

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terrible college loans as well. 
So governments so often cause 

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the very problem that they claim
to usher in the solution. 

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It also looks like there was a 
great deal of gain of research 

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funding that was sent to the 
Wuhan Lab of Virology before 

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they told us COVID is the new 
justification for state tyranny 

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through the Eco Health Alliance 
and the National Institute of 

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Health. 
So again and again, even if the 

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problems are real, they are 
either caused by government or 

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the state is not a successful 
solution to what should be done.

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Yeah, so many great points there
and it So every time we get on 

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these topics, I'm often reminded
of one of my favorite quotes 

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from Nietzsche. 
I probably repeated this more 

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than any other quote. 
Everything the state says is a 

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lie and everything it has, it 
has stolen. 

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It sounds a bit extreme, but 
man, I think you're hard pressed

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to find a counter example. 
I'm also, sorry, go. 

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Ahead, one more thing on that. 
The reason they lie so 

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frequently. 
I came across this thesis from a

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1928 book by Arthur Ponsonby 
titled Falsehood in Wartime. 

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He says all the countries lied 
to their populations at this is 

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after the First World War, he 
goes. 

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So are they like all secretly 
friends and all planning to lie?

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He goes. 
That seems extremely unlikely. 

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What is likely is in order to 
get people to say I'm willing to

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have my son's limbs blown off 
and get him killed, you have to 

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scare them into the most crazy 
psychotic state that they're 

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willing to do. 
Literally. 

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Anything Putin's going to take 
over Ukraine, then Poland, then 

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Europe, then South America, and 
then he will take over America 

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and start murdering civilians 
here, just like he's doing in 

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Donison Luhansk. 
Well, the reality is either 

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Zelensky is going to be on the 
throne NATO puppet, or Viktor 

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Yanukovych is going to be on the
throne, somewhat of a Putin 

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puppet. 
That's the real dichotomy. 

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So they always lie because they 
have to justify this totally 

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irrational power grab that they 
otherwise wouldn't be able to 

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justify. 
If they told you the reality of 

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the situation, they have to tell
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COVID is killing people, 
especially children, who are the

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most vulnerable. 
You have to wear a mask. 

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You can't stand 5 feet apart in 
11 inches. 

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It has to be 6 feet. 
And you can't go outside till 

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Moderna tells us it's okay. 
All of the lies have to occur 

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simply because the truth is not 
going to arouse the passions of 

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the feebleminded like they'd 
like to.