George Will Keynotes 2010 Milton Friedman Prize Dinner

[pingguo2]

Cut to 4:54, cut to the chase, cut to it, cut to it.

[haldonrichardson1]

See: "Panty Wad Prolix Pontificator George Will Fights Commerce".

[acmna]

4:54 is when George Will starts

[r29]

Something that will always be true to be carved in stone? easy, A=A. But the carving part is hard.

[Trimbler00]

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[KenMacMillan]

George Will needs to run for president.

[nzau2010]

I wish I could re-animate Milton Friedman, so I could murder him.

[canteluna]

The main gripe of Conservatives is all about the redistribution of wealth. While it may be human nature to want to keep more of your personal wealth, the concept of personal wealth is a dubious one. Capitalism is predicated on an amoral market place which results in exploitation of labor. When wealth is attained by such means ownership of wealth is controversial. Labor--traditionally weak--looks to government to redistribute wealth. Who else? Owners? If they could pay workers less they would.

[hooplah1983]

@canteluna I thank you for your stand for the small, working-class man. Without voices such as yours greed might indeed engulf many more than need be. However, the beauty of America is that no man is bound to stay in the category of "labor." Every person has some measure of opportunity to create, to innovate, and to work himself into earning wealth. How many wealthy men began with something in the garage of their tiny home? Freedom brings opportunity, socialism ends in poverty (even for labor).

[lumpagogo]

@canteluna

"Conservatives" conserve nothing but their endless pursuit of cash-moniezz . Will has been a comfortable Lord Fauntelroy who writes for a paycheck, takes no risks. Class War is Conservative war-on-us. Capitalism is the ultimate Ponzi Scheme.

[canteluna]

Will would like to see most Americans (i.e. average laborers) continue to experience the "strain and terror of striving." Why? Because that's noble to him. Romanticizing the suffering of working class Americans who struggle and strive and yet, most of whom, will not succeed (because Capitalism thrives on their exploitation), assuages his guilt, allows him to reside in his lofty Madisonian myth and, most importantly, to sell this same bedtime story over and over at upwards of $100 a plate.

[canteluna]

Will's baseball analogy tells you all you need to know about his politics. The umpire is the government, the pitcher is the people and the batter is big business. In Will's world when the people go to government with a grievance about business the government defers to whatever business decides.

[doveisle]

Skip to 4:40

[truthslap]

Fast forward to 4:30, unless you'd appreciate a partisan and ignorant rambling by some Rush Limbaugh like windbag. The man is SUPPOSE to be introducing George Will, not bothering with us some juvenile display of petty media bias.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap Try listening.  You might actually learn wisdom.

[truthslap]

@MikeTMerciless I do listen, and nobody "learns" wisdom. Of course I listened to Mr. Crane's entire rambling preamble, hoping he'd stop embarrassing himself and provide Mr. Will the introduction he deserves. Aside from annoying and phony flattery, he didn't even try. It's clear George didn't care to give his best this night, I wonder why?

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap Obviously you didn't. Wisdom is understanding that the Left in this country desires nothing less than America's subjugation, at least under their rule. Their policies are destructive, not constructive. Their ideas are flawed. Their methods are sloppy. Their character is corrupt to no end. So to give any truk to the Left in anything is tantamount to gross stupidity. So this vitriol against the emcee isn't wisdom; it's patent emotion. Brought on by antagonism.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap And to go more into it, the Left categorically refuses to see reason in any shape, way, manner, or form. In order to solve problems, you deal with them as they truly are, not as you think they are or as you wish them to be. Sadly, these morons are so screwed up that they can't possibly see that the Emperor has no clothes on because it would undermine their power. These people really are nincompoops when it comes to real power. Real power first comes from wisdom. The Seft has none

[truthslap]

@MikeTMerciless You are just flat-out wrong that the Left refuses to reason. In fact, if Mr. Crane had even bothered to watch "ABC's This Week", instead of casting ignorant aspersions, he'd see alot of that happening between George Stephanopoulos arguing with Will, or Will arguing with Paul Krugman, or Krugman arguing with Donna Brazile, etc. I am a lifelong, third generation conservative, but the Social Right in this country is today nothing but news bashing, paranoid, book burning nutcases.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap You are just flat out wrong. These are utterly unreasonable people due mostly to their pride in own beliefs brought on by their education and their success in government and media. This isn't paranoia; when you see the opposition for what they are, you have to call them on it. They come from a point of view that sees government as the answer to everything, and never believe otherwise. They worship government because they worship power.

[truthslap]

@MikeTMerciless The way you are talking IS paranoia. What worries me is how wide-spread and accepted this has gone; I heard of a district in Texas that's literally amending their textbooks to a more "Christian American" point of view. I've heard Republicans say that you shouldn't trust mainstream media, shouldn't listen to public radio, shouldn't trust your text books. Christ, WHERE are these people being educated or informed then? You CANNOT get the real news from your right-wing talk radio.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap Evidently, you're not keeping up with current events. You can't get real news from the so-called mainstream media anymore. Look up the Journo-List. Read any of Bernard Goldberg's books. The way you're talking is not only pure ignorance, it's also propaganda. Real conservatives understand that you cannot get real news from the likes of CNN, PBS, or NBC anymore because they're not only co-opted by their own subversive notions, but routinely spike any news harmful to their agenda.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap And given the huge amount of evidence to support our so-called "paranoia," there is no such thing. You're confusing paranoia with a wholesome response to a genuine threat to this nation and to the world at large. Your disparaging of all this makes you not only a hack, but not a conservative in the slightest. It is unreasonable to see otherwise.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap Also, let's take this thing about the Texas textbook controversy, which is only controversial to those who wish to subvert the nation to their own secular socialistic ends. It was a triumphant blow against tyranny, who have co-opted our public schools for years spreading misinformation and disparaging the nation to our youth that when they come out of school they know next to nothing about anything, let alone anything good about this nation on the whole.

[truthslap]

@MikeTMerciless Sir, that rant is probably the most paranoid, out of touch, crazy thing I've read in a long time. EVERY conservative I know values PBS, CNN, ABC, and even NBC, and EVERY conservative I know realizes how truly destructive and subversive Fox News has been on American culture and intellectualism. It use to be that we conservatives were a proud, educated, informed people, but thanks to Dr. Ailes and Rupert Murdoch, our once proud tradition has degenerated to a cesspool of nutcases.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap You're obviously not a conservative. You're quite ignorant. 

[truthslap]

@MikeTMerciless The other day, I heard Bill O'Reilly casting aspersions that Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw were "liberal leaning", meaning that fat windbag was literally questioning the journalistic integrity of the GREATEST American journalists of our time. O'Reilly and the whole of Fox News cannot hold a candle to our great, fading American tradition of excellence in journalism, they have corrupted the good name of our Vox Populi, and have ruined our youth's exuberance for news.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap They WERE liberal leaning. You call yourself a conservative? Where are you from? North Korea? Cuba? Venezuala? You're no conservative.

[truthslap]

@MikeTMerciless There it is- you sir, are out of your mind. The perfect image of neo-conservatism today, the horrible reality of how far the party of my father and my father's father has fallen. The fact that you simultaneously spit on the single greatest American journalists of our time and question ME as a conservative, suggests to me that both parties really have lost ground to fringe lunatics who's prerogative it is to attack American values and academia. You people are not worth the time.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap Wrong, sir. Cronkite was a leftist stooge. As was Rather. Cronkite was also a useful idiot for communists. He would forever characterize the war in Vietnam as unwinnable in spite of the NVA's and Viet Cong's horrific losses at Tet and after the Christmas Bombings, deliberately misreporting the news to slant his agenda. Don't believe me? Read the truth. You are no conservative. You're a hack, masquerading as a conservative to disparage me. Because you have no argument.

[truthslap]

@MikeTMerciless For God's sake, it's as if you forget that we LOST the fucking Vietnam War. Cronkite was a "useful idiot"? Have you been listening to fucking Uri Bezmenov or something? NOBODY, neither conservative nor liberal, NOBODY in the academic community questions the integrity of Walter Cronkite. Why don't you prove that Cronkite was a "leftist stooge"? He FILMED the war and reported based on what he saw, when exactly did he disparage our troops? You're making up BULLSHIT.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap Wrong. You're just so ignorant that you don't even know anything. We actually did not lose the Vietnam War. We basically let the NVA take over South Vietnam even AFTER they signed a peace treaty in Paris saying they wouldn't do that. After Watergate, and after a Democratic Congress defunded our general presence in Vietnam, we did nothing to stop the NV to stop them. I never said Cronkite disparaged our troops; I said he disparaged our war effort and misreported our efforts there.

[truthslap]

@MikeTMerciless We let them did we? That's funny, because I could swore we WITHDREW as the American people realized that we didn't want to lose our brothers and sisters in a foreign civil war anymore. When we withdrew, we lost the war effort, but in reality the war was lost from day one, it was in JFK's words a "no win scenario". The South Vietnamese didn't trust their OWN government, nor did the American people support this war. The only winners in that war was our military industrial complex.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap Now that's ignorance! It was JFK who authorized the assassination of SV Pres. Diem, which destablized SV to the point that future governments we supported were corrupt. This was not a foreign civil war. This was a war for conquest of South Vietnam by the North; there is a reason why they were separated in the first place because they wanted to be! And no, our military industrial complex won jack from withdrawal. You have exposed yourself to be a leftist hack, and an ignorant one.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap And how about Dan Rather's forged documents? Bet you never heard that. He tried to report that George Bush had been shown preferential treatment in the TX ANG during Vietnam, but his sources came from documents made out on MS Word, which is journalistic malpractice at the least, all in an attempt to deliberately sabotage Bush's 2004 bid for re-election. It blew the lid on his career, and made him an embarrassment.

[truthslap]

@MikeTMerciless Of course I heard about Dan Rather's forged documents, because he APOLOGIZED on air ad nauseam over it, even though it was his mostly network's fault and not his. He showed us what real excellence and integrity means throughout the whole situation, and the great majority of middle America lost a hero when Dan Rather stepped down. Dan Rather is FAR from an embarrassment, you asshole.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap Only after he was caught. If the man was even a tenth of a journalist he would not have bothered with the story. The man has no integrity. I read his ham-handed apology. The man still claims that the documents were authentic! That's embarrassing. He's as much of a hack as you.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap And NO, it is his fault. Otherwise, he might still be covering the news instead of Katie. You have to understand the way the CBS newsroom was. He never questioned the people who found those documents; never held them to any journalistic standards in this regard because he simply believed it. He shaped the news at CBS. I mean, it's just basic when you have something potentially explosive as that, you'd want to verify the authenticity of your sources. He did not. Sorry.

[truthslap]

@MikeTMerciless You are wrong, Dan Rather was handed a report from previously reliable sources, he was PRESSURED by his network to get the story out early, but he does rightfully blame himself for not further investigating their authenticity before reporting them. Therefore, he apologized at length and even resigned. WHEN was the last time you saw that kind of integrity from Fox News, who REGULARLY and PURPOSELY distorts history and the news to fit their agenda. That is NOT real reporting.

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap He did not resign, he retired. He may have been handed a report from his people on the matter, but they did no investigating, which leads to the question what kind of operation was Rather running at CBS to lead them to do something like this? Thank you for exposing yourself for the lunatic hack leftist wing-nut you are. Fox News is far and above a better news outlet than CBS has been since Murrow. Ratings don't lie.

[truthslap]

@MikeTMerciless JFK MIGHT have authorized the assassination, if you know that for a fact, then you are better than most US intelligence sources and political analysts today (you're not). This was Eisenhower's war, not JFK's, so let's keep this in perspective. I doubt JFK was working alone if he did order the assassination. It WAS a foreign civil war, a "conquest of south vietnam by the north" MEANS a civil war, how ignorant can you be?

[MikeTMerciless]

@truthslap It's at this point that I'm calling you an ignorant liar. Because you are. You claim to be a conservative. You are not. You imply you know what you're talking about. But you don't. You know jack about Cronkite, the War on Vietnam, and swallowed hook line and sinker everything Rather ever told you. Can't talk to you. It would be like sandblasting a soup-cracker. I'd only humiliate you.

[truthslap]

@MikeTMerciless Call me a liar if you want, I don't make ignorant assumptions about your voting record, but you make plenty about mine. YOU are not a good example of well informed conservative, instead you're one of those that is here for the NRA, or because he's a racist former southern democrat, or because he's some gun blasting imperialist asshole. Either way, conservatives in America deserve better than people like yourself and Fox News.

[truthslap]

Cannot thank you enough for uploading this. George Will might be the most intelligent, articulate, relevant and sincere voice of Conservatism alive today.

[032125]

Aw, George, did you have to go and quote that dickhole Lincoln? He paved the way for Wilson, don't you of all people know that?

[Solarin1116]

One of the best speeches I have heard in a good long time.

[whoo689]

George Will?? ...Really? The LIBERTARIAN Cato Institute invited a CONSERVATIVE stalwart, rather than a libertarian (I can think of plenty at the moment), to give their keynote address?

You've changed, Cato. I heard from a little birdy that NONE of your major employees and senior fellows even gave money to Ron Paul in 2008! Some actually gave money to establishment GOP candidates and even George Bush! Among other ridiculous things

[whoo689]

Plus, couldn't you have found a fellow classical liberal or at least University of Chicago neoclassical economist to do this keynote address? Why a regular conservative columnist to talk about Milton Friedman?

If you ask me, libertarianism needs to get out of the conservative movement's ass. I'm TIRED of always and only the liberty movement associating with right-wingers when it comes to "mainstream" folks. Let's BECOME mainstream ourselves! Let's become strong enough independently.

[whoo689]

@whoo689 It's not like the GOP is any better than the DNC. BOTH are filled to the brim with statists. They just favor different areas of statism. The real party is the party of big gov't. We only shame and embarrass ourselves when we align ourselves so often with the Right. And focusing so much on economic issues and giving mostly lip service to social issues makes it sound like WE DON'T CARE about that stuff, for the most part. And it turns off a lot of otherwise would-be libertarians.

[whoo689]

I mean, the only major social issues that Cato focuses on that I know of are smoking bans, the war on drugs, and gun rights. Nary a word is said about gay marriage or gay rights, the right to choose, the right to die, separation of church and state, theocrats in gov't, and so on. And probably 3/4ths of the books ON cato's website for sale are economics. I have nothing against free markets and noninterventionist foreign policy, but let's get real and focus on ALL major issues.

[UnholyBlackDeath]

@whoo689 Economic issues are the major issues right now. everything else is secondary at the moment. There are plenty of other groups dealing with those other lesser issues.

[xtaxplayer]

@whoo689 Let me see if I can help: Gay marriage isn't a right or discrimination. Why, The "marriage" they look for is a government tax break not the joining of soles in the eye's of God (God doesn't need a document in a book to know). Second it is not discriminating, why? They have the same right to marry someone of the opposite sex just as anyone else. The right to choose? What choice does the baby make? Separation of Church and State? who said that? Mass was held in congress for 150 yrs.

[AtomicJayhawk]

@xtaxplayer I'm pretty sure it was the 1st amendment to the constitution that said something about separation of church and state, something like "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

[xtaxplayer]

@AtomicJayhawk Nothing about separation of Church and State, the Congress appointed the first bible to be written in the United States. Each Sunday the Federal building held worship services. The Federal government enacted building with religious statements IE: the ten commandments. They put God on our money and in or rules as well as the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution. The 1st Amend. was to stop the government from stopping religion.

[waynotway]

@whoo689 He is talking about this gov't having been set up to defend personal INDIVIDUAL liberties, for ALL humans, to COUNTER the long standing idea that people should be forced into dependency under the strong arm of tyrants who would exploit basic human needs and pains and fears to advance their own power and profit. There is NO greater social issue plaguing mankind. Without personal freedom, all other social issues are rendered moot and can never be truly addressed.

[waynotway]

@whoo689 Do you not know what classical liberalism is? Are you confusing George Will with the so called "neocons" that make up the majority of the Republican party in D.C. today? The neoconservatives are neither conservative nor are their ideas new. Indeed they are the mirrored reflection of the "democons" on the other side of that isle. George Will not only wants nothing to do with any of that. Indeed, he rails against it here in his own sublime uniquely pithy, perfect and peerless way.

[whoo689]

Yes, I know what classical liberalism is, obviously. I never said Will is a neocon, but he was pro-war for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars for quite some time until recently. Not only that, but he IS a conservative, and not necessarily a staunch libertarian. Plus, I've never been a huge fan of his. He just doesn't excite me all that much. When I think of potential speakers for a celebration of a great economist like Friedman and his work, George Will doesn't come to mind immediately.

[MikeTMerciless]

@whoo689 What's wrong with being pro-war? Especially against an enemy that's trying to kill us? Understand, we're at war, and it just seems that people like you refuse to understand that you NEVER want to lose a war. I just can't fathom your willful ignorance at a very basic concept.

[waynotway]

@whoo689 Libertarians are nothing if not conservative re ltd powers of central gov't., esp re perpetual "preemptive" foreign wars.The point of his fine tuning here of the word "constitution"? Confused by labels&twisting words?How about let's talk about that word: our word for a thing/person possessing observed intrinsic defining traits which remain UNchanged. Constitutionalist, Libertarian, Conservative, or Wombat: his spirit, works&esp his speech here never waiver from the cause of OUR liberty.

[waynotway]

@whoo689He knows language is derived by human nature&subsumed under NaturalLaw apparent in predictable cycles-its direction:ever returning to its source.All life forms strive2survive each in its innate way.Humans R born w/potential4higher reason&responsibility.By innate UnalienableNature we require freedom of self&spirit to actualize potential.Will's 1 of few public humansAWAKEtoday.CATO's honored-'a fortiori' so should we be.If his views here contradict yours,perhaps it's U who's no Libertarian

[FCmagic01]

Great speech

[richardcadbury]

What an excellent address. Excellent! Of course, cricket is better than baseball. ;p

[betodesign101]

if socialism is go great why wont liberals just simply move to canada or europe?

[sugarkang]

@betodesign101 agreed. and take all the labor unions with you.

[xtaxplayer]

@sugarkang I second that!! We need, as free people, to ensure we keep pointing out Socialists A.K.A. Progressives, Fascist's and Communist's to the public in order to make everyone aware of what they are truly up to. Do not let them hide, lie or trick the uneducated people of society to allow them to screw the people.

We must protect the people from the JoeKnight93's out there.

[JosephKnight93]

@xtaxplayer Actually, I think the people ought to be protected from people who cannot tell a socialist from a progressive from a fascist.

[xtaxplayer]

@JosephKnight93 Explain the difference between a socialist and a progressive. Then a fascist and a socialist, then a progressive and a fascist. Can't wait to see this!! Mind you I will explain the real life versions if you don't.

[JosephKnight93]

@xtaxplayer Fascism is ALWAYS a popular movement. Look at Nazi Germany. The German citizens, by and large, wanted Hitler in power. It is bizarre, but do not confuse fascism with totalitarianism.

[xtaxplayer]

@JosephKnight93 Fascism is always a popular movement and you can only cite one example. Who mentioned totalitarianism? But since you brought it up, it is total control over the people and all facets of the economy. It is most often confused with Socialism and Communism because of the governments control of the people and the economy.

[JosephKnight93]

@betodesign101 If you think that liberalism=leftism, then you can quit politics right now.

[betodesign101]

@JosephKnight93 hey doofus... classical liberalism was milton friedman, the militant progressive leftists have hijacked the liberal term. dont you for one second think i dont know the effin difference btwn classical liberalism and statists progressive liberals. now stop feelin sorry for yerself and man the eff up will ya. go read a mark levin book for once in your life.

[JosephKnight93]

@betodesign101 I'm afraid I have to inform you of a couple of facts.

1. Leftism is a broad corpus including many factions including liberals, democratic socialists, anarchists, and others. "Liberalism" is, in a sense, the far-right of leftism. Most leftists, myself included, are far to the left of "liberals".

2. I do not feel sorry for myself, nor for you, though in the latter case I probably ought to.

3. No thinking person would ever dare read a "Mark Levin book". Sorry

[betodesign101]

@JosephKnight93 you've proven my point. who dont have a clue of what you're talking about.

[xtaxplayer]

@JosephKnight93 Democratic Socialist? You're obviously lacking in knowledge or are flat out twisting the use of Democratic here. To educate you. A democratic society the people vote and majority rules. Now the socialist society, The ruler(s) decide what the people get and the people don't have a say.

So you see Democracy GOOD for the people...Socialism/Progressive­s BAD for the people. I hope this helped to clear up your misuse of the term Democratic and Socialism. YOU CAN NOT HIDE ANY MORE

[wetwingnut]

@xtaxplayer You're mixing apples and oranges. Democracy and totalitarianism are methods/systems of governance, communism, socialism, and capitalism are systems of economic distribution. There is no inherant reason why any particular system of govenrment cannot implement any of the three economic systems. There is the moral question of whether, in a democratic society, the majority has the moral authority to vote away the rights of the individual. They don't - but that hasn't stopped them yet.

[xtaxplayer]

@wetwingnut I'm mixing Apples and Oranges?? What Democracy are you eluding too? If you are discussing the Unites States of America it is a Republic. Not sure about this? Read the United States Constitution.

I'll wait . . .

[wetwingnut]

@xtaxplayer I never said that the US was not a Republic. I was responding to your assertion that "democratic socialism" is a contradictin in terms - it is not.

[xtaxplayer]

@wetwingnut Socialism is not something that the people get a vote on. If you think so you have no clue.

[wetwingnut]

@xtaxplayer Of course they can. That's my point. Socialism can arise out of either fascism or democracy. Witness France (as well as most of the rest of Europe) and now the U.S. as countries that have voted themselves into a more and more socialist system. I wish that you were right - I would love to think that the democratic process will protect us from socalism but history doesn't bear this out.

[xtaxplayer]

@wetwingnut I understand wholeheartedly with you. A republic is only as strong as its people are vigilant, and sadly our Public schools have taken care of dumbing down the people. American's need to get out on the 2nd of November and vote Constitution. Get the progressive's out of office each of the next 6 years and keep them out. Please America, don't vote phony party lines vote for the U.S. Constitution and those that read and understand it for what it is/was.

[wetwingnut]

@xtaxplayer Amen.

[xtaxplayer]

@JosephKnight93 No you are correct Liberalism in the modern sense doesn't mean leftism. . . It actually stands for PROGRESSIVE also known as SOCIALIST, FASCIST and COMMUNIST. Funny how they have to keep changing their names to hide from the public that would run them out of town before these Progressives try to trick and lie to the public. I hope this helps to clear things up!

[JosephKnight93]

@xtaxplayer I do not know how it is possible for one person to be so confused, but you are. How could you confuse socialism and fascism? How old are you? Those terms existed before you came around to use them in such a loose fashion.

Now, I am a socialist. And I am no fan of liberalism, but not for the idiotic reasons you espouse. I suggest you pick up A RANDOM BOOK and educate yourself on SOMETHING. Meanwhile, I cannot continue to respond on this fucked-up video. PM if you must respond.

[xtaxplayer]

@JosephKnight93 Really, anyone reading your post can see which of us is uneducated... YOU! Socialism = power from government to the people Fascism = power from the government to the people. Now that this has been cleared up from your veiled attempt to cloud what a Socialist is. Let me clear up a Republic form of Government. It is power from the people to the government, meaning for small minded or the public schooled, People are free to choose! remember Republic GOOD Progressive/Socialist BAD

[JosephKnight93]

@xtaxplayer In the "Republic" form of government, power is concentrated in the hands of a tiny percentage of the population.Don't take my word for it; take a look around you, and find this out. Under socialism, there are no leaders. The population has direct control over the economy and thus participates in a direct democracy. I don't see how you can refute this, and you don't seem to either, which must be why you are acting like a buffoon. I will not respond unless you give a coherent response

[xtaxplayer]

@JosephKnight93 You obviously do not understand or want to tell the truth about a republic. Look around, a republic is where the power comes from the people. One way a government has more power in a republic is from an uneducated people, which I agree America has right now.

Now SHOW US ONE SOCIALIST COUNTRY THAT HAS NO GOVERNMENT. You explain that "Under socialism, there are no leaders", show it to us. Also I believe that is what human's can ANARCHY yet another form of government or lack of one.

[MikeTMerciless]

@JosephKnight93 As far as anyone is concerned, it most certainly does. There is no difference, nor does it serve anything constructive to believe there is.

[atozach]

@JosephKnight93 You must be British. In Britain Classical Liberalism denotes a belief where Individual Freedom trumps the state. In America, Liberalism doesn't mean the same thing. Leftists in the 40s and 50s abandoned the term progressive because it became discredited. They took up the term liberal to recast their aims. In America, Liberalism=Leftism. Now that liberalism is largely discredited they are reverting to the term progressive because most are too young to recall its failure.

[goodatbasebal]

Wow! I always like George Will but this was a damn good speech! Favorited!

[yougiberishtube]

Thumbs up

[areosis]

he has such a great sense of humor

[TimeWarp66]

14:10 - 15:00

Fantastic stuff!