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He's very familiar with Austrian theory. He was a summer fellow or something with the Mises Institute when he was in college. He's been on all the major Austrian podcasts and clearly "gets it".
He's a bit like Rand Paul where he sort of codes more statist than he really is.
I think that some of the politicians have to fit in by talking some of the statist garbage that is expected of a politician because the are viaing to be part of the state apparatus. If they don’t do it they never get elected and, thus, never get to affect policy with Austrian thought. I always wonder about politicians, they seem to be the quintessential high school class officer type person, terribly plastic.
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If you listen close, both Rand and Vivek are almost never advocating an increase in state action. Even when they want the state to try to fix an issue in society, their proposal is usually for the state to stop doing something else that's causing it.
I think the hope is to appeal to the "The government needs to do something" people without alienating the "The government needs to stop fucking everything up" people.
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I think the hope is to appeal to the "The government needs to do something" people without alienating the "The government needs to stop fucking everything up" people.
I really get tired of the “The government needs to do something,” people. They cannot even begin imagining that people can do things under their own steam. I think they have been thoroughly indoctrinated with the progressive/lefty/collectivist/Marxist/socialist/communist/murderer line of thought. They, also, cannot be bothered with looking at history and seeing that most of these things were done, in the past, by individuals and companies, without any government assistance, guidance or orders. It is a shameful lack of imagination.
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