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

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Libertarian institute. 
Here's a section from my new 

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book, Domestic Imperialism 9 
Reasons I Left Progressivism. 

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Consider these two 
organizations. 

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Which one sounds more 
compassionate? 

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Organization X offers people 
food in exchange for money. 

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When people refuse to exchange 
money for Organization XS food, 

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Organization X uses their own 
money to market their products 

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and reinvest in facilities which
entice customers to shop there. 

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If customers refuse to buy food 
from Organization X, 

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Organization X will go out of 
business. 

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Organization Q produces food. 
Organization Q claims that since

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food is necessary for life and a
healthy populace, people should 

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be forced to chip in for 
Organization Q's costs. 

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Those who do not pay will be put
in jail by employees of 

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Organization Q. 
And if you resist Organization 

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QS employees, the employees have
a right to shoot you in defense 

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of their own lives. 
Which organization sounds more 

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compassionate? 
Which organization would you 

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prefer to interact with? 
Governments provide many things 

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such as security schools, 
intelligence gathering, poverty 

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assistance programs but none of 
these are defining 

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characteristics of government. 
They can be provided by many non

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government actors in society and
historically they have been. 

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What makes government a unique 
institution in society is it's 

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widely recognized right to 
achieve its ends via threats of 

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violence against non aggressors.
This is why you would go to jail

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for trying to tax someone's 
income or if you attempted to 

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regulate the commercial 
interactions of strangers or 

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declared war on one of your 
foes. 

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Hence, governmental 
organizations are more like 

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Organization Q, and 
organizations in the free market

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are more like Organization X I 
became a progressive when I 

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thought that progressivism meant
being compassionate. 

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I stopped being a progressive 
when I realized that putting 

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massive obligations on strangers
through government coercion was 

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not compassion. 
While progressives assume that 

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they have a monopoly on 
compassion, the reality is that 

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compassion can still arise even 
in the absence of state 

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coercion. 
This book will focus on 

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progressive ideas, which 
dominate universities K through 

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12, teaching the corporate 
press, government's corporate 

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advertising campaigns, human 
resource departments, and 

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Hollywood. 
Most of the people in these 

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areas advocate progressives 
ideas such as state welfare, 

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state schooling, antitrust 
legislation, state involvement 

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in healthcare, state involvement
in retirement planning, state 

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regulation of commerce, and the 
belief that the existence of 

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disparities in outcomes is ample
evidence of discrimination. 3 

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things to know before moving 
forward. 

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The primary assumption behind 
progressivism is that government

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is the central caretaker in 
society when it comes to solving

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social and individual problems. 
In America, both Republican 

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President Theodore Roosevelt and
Democratic President Woodrow 

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Wilson were considered 
progressives, showing that the 

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fundamental assumptions within 
this worldview exists across 

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party lines. 
This is why whenever small 

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government Republicans have been
in power, they have never on net

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shrunk the size or scope of the 
federal government. 

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The progressive mentality tends 
to assume that inequality and 

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poverty are unnatural and the 
result of bad actors, while 

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equality and wealth are easily 
achievable with the right amount

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of political power. 
In a world where progressive 

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assumptions school general 
public opinion, I wanted to 

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write this short book explaining
why the progressive worldview 

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should be rejected and the free 
market worldview should be 

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embraced instead. 
Thanks for watching Keith 

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Knight. 
Don't tread on anyone. 

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