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Thomas Sowell, Bernie Sanders' Lake House, and the DSA
from The Montauk Project · #95
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4 minTim invokes Thomas Sowell's 'no solutions, only trade-offs,' argues Bernie Sanders would have been a useful cultural reset despite not being a real Marxist, mocks the obsession with Sanders owning three homes compared to Hamptons excess, and separates sincere democratic socialists from ideologically confused rich-kid Marxists in the DSA.
- 56:18Tim cites Thomas Sowell's principle that there are no solutions, only trade-offs, as a framework for evaluating policy.
- 56:50Bernie Sanders would have made a good president as a reset—not because Tim trusts his competence, but because he'd project maturity and intellect.
- 57:36Tim dismisses criticism of Sanders owning three homes and a lake house, pointing out the actual wealth disparity people encounter in places like the Hamptons.
- 58:15Government ownership of all major industries and banks has never reduced inequality historically, and idiots who believe it will happen are not people in power.
- 58:57The DSA contains both genuinely good people seeking real change and guilty rich white kids trying to feel like good people without doing the work.
- 59:42Many DSA members are actual Marxists who celebrate Karl Marx's birthday, not Nordic-style socialists as some claim.
- 1:00:02The alt-right and radical leftists both overshoot in their ideological commitments in similar ways.
Bernie SandersBarack ObamaDemocratic Socialists of AmericaThomas SowellBill ClintonKarl Marx