Yaron Brook's Call to Action - September 2009

[rixross]

Speedy trial certainly, and in this society with our ambiguous laws I think right to a lawyer may be necessary.

[lordpoppycock]

Thanks you, Dr. Brook.

[GrahamCrackerStudios]

Very good video. Gives me a bit of encouragement for whenever I discuss the Health Care issue.

[mykol13v]

Capturing the middle is a tough job although this is probably where most people are in this country. If a party takeover is involved, I'd suggest that the Republican party is now more ripe for takeover. They've once had a history of quasi-libertarian ideals: Civil Rights, Women's vote, ending slavery in the Deep South, economic freedom among others. If you want to win an election, you try this platform: libertarian+old style republicanism appeals. Reduce religious influence but maintain freedoms

[fullmetalchymist]

This is probably one of the best Calls to Action I've watched. I like that Yaron and others are questioning something that everyone else takes for granted yet no one seems to understand - the actual definition of "rights". Its like questioning altruism - even in the most provocative essays about the origin of ethical behavior, the researchers involved just assume that morality = altruism. But you can't just assume something is true based on popular consensus. You have to ask the question.

[ALittleBitPregnant]

Palin/Brook 2012!!

[Raykak]

This is absolutely ridiculous.

The GOP as a whole is not for the Objectivist political idea. They still spend like crazy, as evidenced by Bush. They are also for taking away personal liberties in the name of safety or religion, which is not Objectivist in the slightest.

The democrats are wrong - but the republicans who are screaming about government spending going crazy are absolute hypocrites.

Hopefully the ARI realizes that siding with the republicans is a terrible idea.

[ALittleBitPregnant]

I am being silly

Palin/Rakak 2012

[LordVigeous666999]

yeah, but what is alternative?

I mean, we can run 3rd party people, and in some ways that would be better, but the laws, the media, and the populace in general are so biased against it, I don't think it can be done

Ron Paul has the right idea, put an R in front of your name, and circumvent the laws, and take over the party

And you can try and change the laws, but the Dems and Rep aren't going to do that, until we take them over anyway, so might as well take them over outright

just my thought

[shovelcharge]

ARI doesn't "side" with the GOP, they only seek to change their minds.

[warpicachu]

Yaron Brook for president!

[whippoorwillss]

wow

[JOBRAIL1]

When is Dr. Brooks going to appear on Fox News? Or any news program? Thank you very much. I have always thought the idea of Obamacare really stank, but, I was not really sure why. Very well done!

[PortfolioManager1987]

He shows up on Glenn Beck and other programs on Fox Business, etc..

..checkout the Ayn Rand Institute / Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights websites for more (there's even recent links to videos of Yaron on Fox, etc somewhere on the site).

[JOBRAIL1]

Thank you very much!

[PortfolioManager1987]

At this stage, advocacy almost ought to be entirely philosophical. This is in part because of how this really isn't "a great debate", but a smear campaign -- the other side doesn't care about the facts -- infact they (if they're honest) don't care about expanding healthcare.

The broader theme is no matter what the concrete is, establishment intellectuals are attempting to create a state of affairs that skews American politics permanently to "How effectively can one side run the welfare state?".

[PortfolioManager1987]

Healthcare is just any easiest means for altruist politicians to get there, it's the easiest concrete to openly appeal to the hearts of an altruist choir, that is providing them with mental imagery of ruthless capitalists holding back insurance, i.e., this view that their side is as moral and compassionate as the other side is 'immoral'.

In California, for example, aren't most elections about the education budget?

Think.. "Candidate X boosts edu-health spending 80%, not 60%, that's my vote".

[coltrane1966]

a lot of People in the UK consider cuts in public spending a negative, and political parties are fighting each other on who's NOT going to cut it.

a Union leader this week said that cutting public spending would be disastrous to economic recovery. He reminds me of some quack with a bleeding bowl!

[PortfolioManager1987]

Here in Australia it is the same, although here I'm not sure whether the plotting of regicide is illegal ;)

(inside joke [hint: we both share the same head of state])

And for those who don't know.. regicide is the deliberate killing of a monarch :O

[coltrane1966]

Mary Queen of Scots & Charles I, were certain it was illegal here.

I wonder if that was their last thought as the axe shattered and traumatized the vertebrae of their necks. LOL.

[legendre007]

Excellent commentary, Dr. Brook.  :-)