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Dear Liberals... · Mechonomist Podcast

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  I have a very tortured relationship with liberalism and
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  liberals for the most part
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  SPEAKER_00: really hate me,
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  but I think that there really needs to be some soul searching
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  done by the liberal
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  SPEAKER_00: establishment about what their priorities are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, I work at a park store in the past 10 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've worked in a shop.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've worked in,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I've worked in a parts store and,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  the stuff liberals are on the political things that liberals
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  are find important,
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  SPEAKER_00: critical race theory,
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  SPEAKER_00: intersectionality,
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  this kind of stuff is just resoundingly ridiculed in shops and
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  parts stores and job
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  SPEAKER_00: sites everywhere in the country.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not necessarily because people don't agree with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people don't agree with it.
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  It's just because it's forced down people's throats and it
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  feels like social engineering.
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  And I think it feels like social engineering because it is
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  social engineering.
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  It's led by academics who spend all of their time coming up
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  with these rather
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  SPEAKER_00: grandiose theories of society
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  SPEAKER_00: And of what society should be.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a place for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's become such an industry.
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  And there are so many quote-unquote philosophers doing this
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  type of work that that
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  stuff becomes part of a professional expectations instead of
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  just some asshole's
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  SPEAKER_00: thoughts in their head.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's not that much new that can be said from Plato until now,
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  SPEAKER_00: as far as theory goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are human institutions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Human institutions get corrupted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody really knows what knowledge means.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you can claim to have knowledge and have power.
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  SPEAKER_00: People who control material resources have power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, it's really basic stuff.
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  And it's once you get into the type of social engineering that
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  happens with
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  SPEAKER_00: critical race theory,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: white culture is somehow always bad,
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  SPEAKER_00: is always oppressive.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is an oppressor's culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, most people don't even think about culture at all, ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: They never think about their culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just how they do things.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just their way of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they never sit, you know, 99% of the world
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  doesn't sit down and critically assess their own cultural mores
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  because that's an
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  SPEAKER_00: academic exercise.
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  SPEAKER_00: It affects the way you live your life in an everyday way,
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  SPEAKER_00: but as long as there's some way to communicate across different cultures,
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  SPEAKER_00: people don't really think about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the fact of the matter is,
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  SPEAKER_00: is if it's an American culture,
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  SPEAKER_00: it probably shares a lot of the same things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're kind of straining at gnats as to where these cultures are.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these cultures get described in such rigid and gate kept ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's just frustrating to people in the working class.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: everybody wants to say Trump won and that sort of stuff,
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  but really more and more people are just checking out of the
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  political system
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  because you've got a charlatan and a showman in Trump who's
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  obviously lying all the time,
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  SPEAKER_00: but is entertaining.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you've got the Democrats who are on some,
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  SPEAKER_00: basically on some bullshit that nobody cares about.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, if liberals are to get back in the game and,
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  They're going to have to stop listening to the academics and
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  the activists and the
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  SPEAKER_00: community organizers.
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  And they're going to start having to listen to regular everyday
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  normal people
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  without an ax to grind what they want and what regular everyday
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  normal people want
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  SPEAKER_00: is better jobs,
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  SPEAKER_00: more money,
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  SPEAKER_00: good education and future for the kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not that complicated healthcare.
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  SPEAKER_00: People want healthcare.
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  People want healthcare,
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  food,
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  clothing,
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  shelter,
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  education for their kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: a future for their family.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what they want.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't want to be told that their culture is wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just a total turnoff.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether it's true or not is irrelevant.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're trying to win political battles.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're not trying to invent a utopian society, and some of us do do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do that work.
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  SPEAKER_00: I try to invent utopian societies.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I don't see what I do as anything other than a fantasy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a creative work of fantasy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not to be implemented in policy in any way, shape, or form.
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  SPEAKER_00: The things that I want implemented in policy are like mutual aid,
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  SPEAKER_00: a certain type of pedagogy and education,
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  SPEAKER_00: unions,
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  cooperatives i want those things supported and these are
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  practical this is a
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  practical type of agenda that liberals could easily adopt that
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  would make a
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  difference in people's everyday life it's the kitchen table
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  issues again and i just
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  we got to get away from academic-led politics you know
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  academics are good for
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  theory they're good to give you some insight to things but they
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  can't lead the
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  SPEAKER_00: politics they gotta
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  SPEAKER_00: be sort of in the background and play a role,
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  SPEAKER_00: but they can't be the ones determining what the policy agenda is.
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  It needs to be people with some kind of engagement with people
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  at their kitchen tables.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, I feel bad for liberals.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it's, it's a tough time for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um,
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  I think the biggest mistake that could have ever been made was
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  to do all the CRT
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  SPEAKER_00: intersectionality stuff and then to support the guys in genocide.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it just made liberals look like total hypocrites.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, people aren't going to vote for a hypocrite.
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  SPEAKER_00: People vote for a liar, but they won't vote for a hypocrite.
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  SPEAKER_00: So anyway, we'll see y'all later.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace, y'all.