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Tyranny, Inc · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  So in the over the past two generations, we've had a shift to ever
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  greater corporate power buck and it's been made possible by the idea, the incorrect
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  idea too often endorsed by kind of the establishment GOP above all, you know,
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  figures like Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney, that coercion is only what government
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  does to us, and that we don't face coercion in the private economy in
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  our lives as workers, as consumers, as citizens. And this is actually
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  an alien idea in the Republican and I mean that in the both the capital
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  are and the small r sense of Republican. In that tradition. You know,
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  our founding fathers were highly alert to the possibilities of private coercion, writing
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  about it in terms of faction or the dangers of faction in the federalist papers,
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  as you know. So you know, over the past i'd say maybe
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  half a decade or so, we've seen it. We've seen ordinary Republicans,
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  people of the right become a little bit more skeptical of a kind of free
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  market uber allis mentality when we see you know, corporations acting against the common
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  good of the country by you know, shipping jobs overseas and destroying you know,
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  wide swaths of manufacturing in the heartland. You know, it's this horrific
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  tragedy where if you look at the maps of the counties that are exposed to
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  you know, free trade from China, those it over overlaps almost uncannily with
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  the same areas that are hit by the opioid crisis and so on. And
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  just very briefly, we've also seen in the vaccine mandates, for example,
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  the way that government can often collude with corporations to create laws that impost mandates
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  are ordinary people which they have to fulfill and it benefits you know, obviously
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  big Pharma. Or when I was at the New York Post left now,
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  but at the time I was sort of in the eye of the storm having
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  to do with the you know, the big tech censorship of the Hunter Biden's
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  story. You know, again partly government related, but also it's just the
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  enormous amount of power wielded by a few Silicon Valley oligarchs and their managers and
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  programmers to silence and unperson the rest of us, including the newspaper founded by
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  Alexander Hamilton. So there's this new alertness to the possibilities of market based coercion
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  on the right, which I think is healthy and in line with actually older
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  and deeper traditions of the right.